$24.99Not For Broadcast You Run the Nightly News
A new government has won in a landslide, the news editor has run off, and you are the janitor now in charge of the National Nightly News. Cut between cameras, censor the swearing, pick the headlines, and decide what a nation gets to see. A darkly funny FMV story with 14 endings, where every choice airs live.
Is Not For Broadcast worth it?
Not For Broadcast is worth it if…
- you like stories where small choices quietly reshape a whole country
- you enjoy live-action FMV games with a strong cast of actors
- you want comedy and political tension in the same sitting
- you liked the desk-bound pressure of Papers, Please but want it on television
- you like games with many endings that reward a second run
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You run the news, live
The job is simple to learn and never simple to do. Four cameras to cut between, a bleep button for troublesome words, headlines to hand-pick, all while the broadcast goes out unedited to the whole country. A guest starts swearing on air, a newsreader loses the plot, a streaker turns up at the Sportsboard Final, and you decide what the audience sees. It plays like sitting at a real broadcast desk, one small crisis at a time.
A country and a family, both yours to steer
The story runs on two levels. On screen, you shape how the nation sees everything: make a sportsman a national treasure or an alcoholic disgrace, help the new government look benevolent or show the public what it should worry about. At home, the choices get closer. Can you afford Grandma's life-saving treatment, or take the government up on its Transition Centres? Will you help your spouse's sibling flee the country, even if it means breaking the law? Every decision feeds forward into one of 14 endings, and the branching is real enough that a second run plays out differently.
Even the adverts are a decision
The breaks are not downtime. With more than 50 ads to choose from, what you air moulds public opinion as surely as the headlines do. You can favour the companies you hold shares in and pocket the extra cash for those difficult decisions at home, or sell the nation's children toys that are, frankly, dangerous. It is the same dark joke running through the whole game: commerce, propaganda and entertainment sit side by side on the same desk, and you press the buttons on all of them.
