Stop the Press!

Run a newspaper in a nation teetering on revolution. Twist headlines to fit your agenda, upgrade your printing press, and master a distribution network to grow your readership while evading the Secret Police. Influence history as stories flood in, choosing what gets reported and how it’s framed. Will you rally readers to support a cause, boost sales with scandal, or spin a barefaced lie to steer the narrative?

Begin with modest means and progressively unlock bigger paper sizes, higher printing capacity, and new distribution tactics. When space runs out, upgrade your factory to keep up with demand. Everything you print leaves a mark on the world, shaping debates in a richly detailed 1930s setting inspired by real revolutions. With multiple endings, your choices write history—or erase it.

The game presents tough moral dilemmas. If the faction you helped rises to power, will you tolerate their excesses or defy them? Does truth always serve justice, or can the wrong people benefit from a well-timed lie? If a whistleblower risks everything for you, is loyalty worth betraying them to keep the presses running? Powerful groups will press for editorial freedom, and you must decide whether to resist or capitulate, even if it costs you readers.

• Target demographics and plan deliveries across 14 distinctive regions to reach millions of potential readers.
• Hire journalists wisely and set pricing to balance reach, profit, and influence.
• Navigate pressures from factions and big interests while staying true to your journalistic instincts.

Features that put you in the editor’s chair:

• Tens of thousands of possible headlines drawn from thousands of hand-crafted events.
• A rich simulation of millions of potential readers across 14 regions and dozens of demographic groups.
• 20+ machines and 5 meticulously designed factories to power your presses.
• 100+ charismatic journalists and sources delivering the latest scoops.
• A dynamic story that reacts to your actions, with multiple endings and paths to reach them.
• Powerful modding tools to craft your own storylines and share them with the community.

Stop the Press! challenges you to balance truth, power, and profit in a living world where every headline reshapes the future. Will you become a champion of free speech or a pawn of the powerful? The presses wait for your decision.