Tower of Time
Main game
3.37 average rating based on 35 ratings
- Developers
- Event Horizon
- Publishers
- Digerati Distribution, Event Horizon
- Platforms
- Linux, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical
- Themes
- Action, Fantasy, Science fiction
- Steam
- View on Steam
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Not really worth your time
Playtime: 7,5 hours (abandoned)
Review
Ok, so i stopped playing this 2,5 years ago and i've just decided i'm going to uninstall it. It's a perfectly passable pause-based strategy game with a couple of nice ideas. This is the kind of game that gets a 5/10. Not bad, but not really worth playing either. It's completely linear and balance between the characters is kinda wonky. In a world with Baldur's Gates and Dragon Ages and stuff you'd have to be a real genre enthusiast to get something out of this.
5/10
Visually attractive, passable story.
Quite a good effort. Big maps that are interesting to travel and with a lot of detail. It started engaging and interesting, but did quite drag from about half way through to close to the end. Dialog is not voiced, except of the rendered scenes. What mostly hurt is the combat, which pulls you out of exploration in a non immersive kind of way, with many combat maps recycled over again and again. Those combat situations have some tactical interesting approaches initially, but later on it all becomes a repetitive grind of dealing with damage sponges or hordes of minions, often taking huge amounts of time to actually even spawn on the battlefield. Game has mountains of loot, which you can only wear or dismantle to craft items. This became a bit much and hardly necessary later on. Probably depends on difficulty and time investment. The affinity system does not really work, as it has hardly any impact. It kept continuing on and on and did not really bring much of twists combat-wise or story-wise to the table. Reaching the final level was not easy. Ending is quite okay though.
Complex RPG
I got this game for free on GOG and was excited to eventually give it a try.
After having it percolate to the top of my playing list, installed and gave it a go.
Likes:
- Very detailed art - beautiful sets and props and figures.
- Systems are super complicated and allow you to build out any kind of character you want, once you unlock them.
- Interesting combat varieties.
Dislike:
- Combat is hard. I mean, very hard. I played on the "easy" difficulty, and was still getting stomped. So I moved it down to the next lower (lowest) level called story and the combat was a joke... almost wish I could have just clicked through it and not wasted the time.
- Dialog is not very good. I only made it through the first three floors of the tower or so, and I just couldn't stomach the talking and forced intermissions of the interactions.
Overall, this game is not bad (except the hard combat, which might be more indicative of me being bad at the game)...but I saw what it had to offer, enjoyed it, and then decided to move on.
~David.
I don't have the mental capacity to write a full review right now, but I want to say that I'm pleasantly surprised by Tower of Time. I described the gameplay in a previous status update and mentioned that the story was surprisingly well done -- I didn't even know the big early twists at that point. I'm generally more of a fan of character driven stories, and, truth be told, the characters aren't particularly strong here. However, the world building, overarching narrative, and mystery were all spot on, though, and kept me invested and guessing all the way to the end. I'd love to say more about it, but I think it's a story that's best experienced with little foreknowledge, so I'll just leave it at that.
So far, it's my favorite game I've played this year. I'm really looking forward to the developer's next game, Dark Envoy, now!
I've put about 12 hours in to Tower of Time so far and I'm really digging it. It's a CRPG dungeon-crawler with some fairly unique combat and a surprisingly intriguing story. The combat is kind of a weird mish-mash of traditional CRPG, tower defense, MOBA. The average battle sees you controlling 4 heroes, each of which has abilities that feel like they'd be at home in a MOBA, in real time with pause combat and fighting enemies that spawn in waves a la tower defense. It feels a lot more like a tactics game than your average CRPG, which is a plus for me. For a game that's all about descending a dungeon, the story is surprisingly well done, managing to build a world with mysteries that I actually want to learn more about.
I'd seen a lot about it being hard even on easy difficulty, so I was a bit worried about frustration levels going in. I actually had to bump it up to Hard fairly early on to maintain even a basic level of challenge in most fights. I think it's one of those games that if you crack character building, you really squash the difficulty curve, so …
I've put about 12 hours in to Tower of Time so far and I'm really digging it. It's a CRPG dungeon-crawler with some fairly unique combat and a surprisingly intriguing story. The combat is kind of a weird mish-mash of traditional CRPG, tower defense, MOBA. The average battle sees you controlling 4 heroes, each of which has abilities that feel like they'd be at home in a MOBA, in real time with pause combat and fighting enemies that spawn in waves a la tower defense. It feels a lot more like a tactics game than your average CRPG, which is a plus for me. For a game that's all about descending a dungeon, the story is surprisingly well done, managing to build a world with mysteries that I actually want to learn more about.
I'd seen a lot about it being hard even on easy difficulty, so I was a bit worried about frustration levels going in. I actually had to bump it up to Hard fairly early on to maintain even a basic level of challenge in most fights. I think it's one of those games that if you crack character building, you really squash the difficulty curve, so experiences vary drastically.
Anyway, my main concern at this point is that I tend to lose interest in most games around the 30 hour mark, and this looks to be a 40 hour game haha.
Tower of Time is free on GOG for the next 47 hours:
https://www.gog.com/#giveaway
Scroll down until you see a pink banner.