Games like THE EDITOR

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Headliner: NoviNews
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
88% of 770 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
The Newspapers of the day
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
50% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
News Tower
Run a newspaper in 1930s New York: send reporters after scoops, build the floors and machines that turn paper into print, and pick whose truth makes the front page. Every week ends with a Sunday deadline, and every edition is a bet on what the city wants to read.
Dark, Replayable
93% of 4,408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$24.99
How to shoot a criminal
Plunge into the dark ambiance of the 30's through the memories of a journalist working under an out-of-control editor who has become dangerous. Find the videos, the records, the radio programs and the reporter's notebooks. Piece the story of a unique newspaper together. Unlock its secrets. Bring it down from the inside.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
79% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Not For Broadcast
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.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
94% of 10,399 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$24.99
The Westport Independent
The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...
Story-driven, Dark, Hand-drawn
76% of 353 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Editor's Hell
You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it. First, you have to make a choice. Will you support the government or will you go against it? Dreams, nightmares, don’t matter anymore; you have a new opportunity in your life.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
83% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition
Try on the role of a Supernatural Newspaper Agency boss and editor. The world it takes place in is a dark and haunted one, with ghosts, zombies, monsters and even shapeshifting murderers, pretending to be human after they have stolen their victims' bodies or infiltrated the humanity.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
72% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Times and Galaxy
Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
85% of 71 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
FAKEBOOK
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 807 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
Above the Fold
Strategy sim game where you build a newspaper! Hire reporters, assign them stories and create amazing front pages! Balance advertisers and politics as you grow the subscriber base. Win awards, complete goals and challenges, research new technology and choose your path as events unfold.
Hand-drawn, Replayable
47% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
A journalist in 1990s Eastern Europe gets an anonymous email: dig through a wiki-like database about the town of Kozlovka and report back. Fill in the gaps in your reports, follow links from article to article, and piece together what is wrong with this place. A short, atmospheric mystery that trusts you to connect the dots yourself.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Cheaper than THE EDITOR

HEADLINER

Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are…

$4.99

How to shoot a criminal

Plunge into the dark ambiance of the 30's through the memories of a journalist working under an out-of-control editor who has become dangerous.

$6.99

Editor's Hell

You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it.

$4.99

Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition

Try on the role of a Supernatural Newspaper Agency boss and editor.

$3.99

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You play a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki-like database to uncover what is wrong with a small Eastern European town.

$4.99

真实幻象 / Behind The Truth

Have you ever be deceived by a stranger on the internet? Have you ever seen those exposed college girl’s nude-photos as they can’t repays the loan?

$3.99

News Tycoon

News Tycoon is a real-time tycoon game about newspaper management

$6.99

SIMULACRA 2

Investigate a dead influencer's phone, interrogate three lying suspects and shape an ending with every choice you make.

$7.99

The Death Game Report

Type names into an old terminal, piece together the students' final thoughts, and deduce who killed whom and why.

$3.99

What Makes Us Special

What do you need to start a school newspaper? The team of course! Nobody is perfect. Everyone is different.

$5.99

Gaming Journo Simulator

Gaming Journo Simulator is a single-player game that lets you play as a journalist and write articles for a game website.

$9.99

No Case Should Remain Unsolved

A retired detective reopens a missing girl's case from memory alone, piecing together 54 fragments of testimony to find the truth.

$6.99

Hidden gems like THE EDITOR

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You play a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki-like database to uncover what is wrong with a small Eastern European town.

$4.99

The Death Game Report

Type names into an old terminal, piece together the students' final thoughts, and deduce who killed whom and why.

$3.99

HAPPY PROPAGANDA

Approve or censor a live broadcast for five tense days, juggling two fragile gauges toward several endings in a hand-drawn dystopia that smiles.

$5.49

News Tower

Run a newspaper in 1930s New York: send reporters after scoops, build the floors and machines that turn paper into print, and pick whose truth makes…

$24.99

Expelled!

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.

$14.99

FAKEBOOK

Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.

$14.99

Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time

Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer!

$10.99

Confidential Killings - A Detective Game

A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery.

$14.99

Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-

Trapped with eleven strangers, Sara must talk, deduce and vote her way out of a death game where every choice can cost a life.

$13.59

No Case Should Remain Unsolved

A retired detective reopens a missing girl's case from memory alone, piecing together 54 fragments of testimony to find the truth.

$6.99

Overboard!

GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

$14.99

Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

You play CDI agent Neil Conrad, working a murder case whose outcome depends on the evidence you gather and the reports you file.

$1.59

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