Leaderboard Showdown: Make Headlines, Get Immortalised, Win a Prize

Hello Newsbearers!

From Launch day to January 1st 2026, we’re running a community-wide challenge across News Tower’s four leaderboards. Climb to the top, hold your place, and finish in 1st place at 15:00 CET on January 1st to claim glory (and some sweet rewards) —for everyone to see.

The Leaderboards

• The Decade
• Half-Decade
• Beat The Jersey Beacon
• Beat The Empire Observer

Pick your newsfront—or go for all four. Your task is simple: achieve the highest possible score on the leaderboard(s) in your game mode, and still be sitting at #1 on January 1st.

What Winners Get

• For each leaderboard, the players in first place for each game mode (Intro/Classic, Highrise and Lowrise) on January 1st will receive:
• An in-game article about your victory, visible to all players—immortalizing your achievement.
• A custom-made vinyl of the News Tower soundtrack signed by the developers.

Yes, that’s up to [strike]four[/strike] twelve winners and [strike]four[/strike] twelve immortalized headlines.

How to Take Part

Play News Tower in any game mode and push your scores on any (or all) of the four leaderboards. Keep improving—leaderboards are competitive and will change throughout the contest.

Be at #1 on January 1st at 15:00 CET to win for that leaderboard.

Pro tip: name your Tower cleanly (see rules below), play fair, and protect those saves—nothing stings like losing top spot the week before the finish line.

RULES (READ ME)

• No cheat codes in your save. Any use of in-game cheat codes excludes that save file from the leaderboards.
  
• No cheating of any kind. Any detected cheating or tampering results in exclusion from the contest and leaderboards.
  
• Name guidelines apply. Your News Tower name must not include profanity or obscenity. Keep it clean.

We’ll enforce these rules strictly to keep the competition fair and the headlines earned.

FAQ

• When does it run? From November 18 through January 1st 2026 (inclusive).
• How are winners chosen? The player ranked #1 on each leaderboard in each game mode on January 1st at 15:00 CET.
• Can I win more than one leaderboard? No. If you are #1 on more than one leaderboard, the board with the closest percentage difference will pass to the next winner. Only the board you have the largest winning lead on will stick.
• How will you reach out to winners? Winners will be contacted through Steam after being announced on Discord. If you are a winner, we will reach out to you through your Steam profile - adding you as friend to get all required details to send your prizes.

Sharpen your pencils, rally your newsroom, and chase those front pages. We can’t wait to write about you.

– The News Tower Team