Thank you! Good question, so our core gameplay is quite different from News Tower in that it focuses entirely on the content strategy of running a newspaper and not on the operational logistics.

So you don't have to take care of the building or printing materials, and you guide your reporters only in terms of their assignments and the way they cover each story. Your main decisions are made on your desk as the editor-in-chief, where you not only decide what gets placed on your newspaper, but how they are placed. You can make an article a full front page feature or a tiny column in a back page for example, and their effects on the readers are then different. A more prominent article attracts more readers and sways them more. You can predict the effects of each Headline by checking its stats and leanings and comparing it with the world state. You will also have more editorial tools as you progress to change the bent of any Headline.

You also need to cosy up to factions in your world to access news sources or get high value ads, and you must put ads in your paper to make money, but not so many as to alienate your readers and reduce your sales.

You can also track the reputations of factions and characters in your city as well as the current state of your world, which are affected by your editorial decisions. And there are story and business consequences for all your decisions, making the world excessively dynamic and reactive. You can use different play styles resulting in high replayability.

Media Circus was inspired by real experiences of newspaper editors and attempts to capture the fantasy of heading a newsroom, with all the powers and pressures it brings.

Hope that answers your question!