Tower of Time

I enjoyed it. The game's fun and well made. Didn't find any bugs besides a brief audio glitch at the end of the loadings. One issue I'm having with the gameplay is that from floor 2 onwards it becomes incredibly easy. And I'm not some kind of tactical genius, my ranged DPS just destroy everything on normal difficulty. Sure I can adjust the difficulty but the game progression shouldn't be something -I- have to manage. As many others pointed out, it's not a new concept in the slightest. I don't know why the developer felt the need to push it as a selling point, when "A game like BG/NWN" would've been much more intriguing for me. Lastly, I think it's a little bit overpriced for what it is.

Fun gameplay that's both approachable and tactical. If you like real-time combat with party composition and skill building, you'll like this game!

its a detailed game that is well worth the purchase

Tower of Time is a very surprising game. The combat stands out: it draws both from j-rpg (since the battles occur in special stages) and RTS (there´s a slow motion like button which helps playing things in the real time scenario). And different as it is, for me, it kinda got tiresome after 10 gameplay hours or so. On the other hand, the character builds and the item system (craft, enchant, dismantle etc) are both very complex and intuitive. But for me, the exploration side (even with the linear patterns) shines the most. It´s a amazing experience to walk searching for every item, blueprint or even piles of gold. The scenarios are amazingly crafted and each of the tower levels seems closely-knit. The atmospheric music is superb, somewhat eerie and dramatic, always in tune with the growing sense of danger and mistery. The characters may not appear much likeable at first sight, but their development is satisfactory and you end up caring about their fate. And that brings us to the story. The plot itself won´t sound avant-garde to most, but still, it is competent, a little mass effecty, but what it does right, it does very right: withouth spoiling much, it contains a intersting discussion about the relationship between player and game. Without breaking the fourth wall, the characters at least supects that they are been manipulated, the same supect the player feels about being, himself, manipulated by the omnious game master/narrator. A weird and yet old school nice indie rpg that deserves some love.

I have seen this game recommended somewhere. I read "innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time" and I was like "hey, how is that innovative??? turn-based games exist since Chess and Go. Next time they will make a 2D game and say how innovative this is". I have decided to try it anyway and I still find this marketing weird. - I think the system of bringing only four heroes into the battle does not fit the general design of the game. I have been investing everything in the first four heroes (and usually choosing alignment choices to make them more powerful). Playing all the heroes would be more fun (let me use all their skills) and more logical, given that ALL of them are displayed exploring the Tower. - The combat became repetitive from some point. - In the combat, it was difficult to understand what is going on (tell my heroes and summoned allies from the enemies). The combat arenas were too large to display everything clearly, and they were repetitive and looked nothing like the environment you could see during the exploration. During the exploration the corridors were narrow, but during the combat, everything was 20 m wide and enemies attacked from all directions. - The story becomes annoying from some point. Not coherent. - The graphics performance was very bad on my computer (GTX 1060). Also, the architecture did not really make sense. - Items are boring. Inventory and crafting interfaces are cumbersome. - They have added "roguelike" mode which does not seem to be a good thing... A good roguelike is designed in a completely different way than a RPG. You cannot just apply permadeath and story reduction and call it a "roguelike". You need something to make every playthrough seem different (item variety, procedurally generated dungeons, etc.)