Posted on: August 13, 2025

Venus_in_Libra

Игр: 831 Отзывов: 74

Way longer than it should have been

It started off as something that could have been one of my favourite games and ended up dropping the ball completely. Alright, lets start with the good and we will go from there. An interesting premise and setting. Nice characters. Neat and interesting locations, rather unorthodox level design. A cool upgrade system giving you a lot of flexibility in that you can always reset your skills. Plenty of loot, both to gather and an interesting crafting and development system. It has a nice soundtrack, but it becomes a bit repetitive after a while. And instanced combat system where you fight encounters in real time, however they become quite stale due to the rather simplistic enemy AI and limited encounter design. The length of the game and the developers ambition end up being the games downfall. The game goes on for around 40-50 hours. That should have been cut in half, because after a certain point you can tell the developers lacked resources to maintain quality. Encounters are basically all the same with different enemies after that point. The tone of the setting is ruined in an attempt to keep it interesting. The plot and characters fall apart in an attempt to keep intrigue and suspense. The story goes into absurd power fantasy territory and obviously falls apart at the ending because of the plot holes and an attempt at a meaningful ending. Less impressive loot the further you go. The map design becomes more stale. I cant really recommend it to the general person, because whatever things you did appreciate about the game, they will ultimately sour the longer you play. It clearly has its strong points, though. If you focus more on the combat and ramp up the difficulty you might end up having a lot of fun. There are things here that I like in this game a lot. Its clear that the people making it put a lot of heart, passion and effort into it. I just wish that at a certain point they said "Okay, lets stop here."

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Posted on: September 19, 2019

lbentopugliesi

Владелец игры

Игр: 66 Отзывов: 2

Bold combat, intriguing plot

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.

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Posted on: February 21, 2020

zenorogue

Владелец игры

Игр: 29 Отзывов: 1

Not good

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.)

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Posted on: November 21, 2020

Lookda

Владелец игры

Игр: 414 Отзывов: 53

Tactical party combat with a bogus story

Tower of Time is very atmospheric. I was pleasantly surprised by the game’s mood, the beautiful environments and music. In the upside-down tower, you find a skeleton in a skiff floating on a dark lake, and see detailed manufacturing plants in the far distance long before you descent between the machines. The gameplay reminds me of Dungeon Siege from 2002. Your growing party presses onward on a linear path while fighting endless mobs. Combat takes place in arenas, which support simplistic AI pathfinding in a tactical game of positioning. It is not about violence and bloodshed. Huge axes swing without sound or impact. That does not mean that the combat is bad, quite the contrary. Encounters are handcrafted. The result is balanced combat that becomes progressively harder. You find optional fights that are challenging and offer interesting loot. Some of the stronger loot breaks the typical rpg rule of more is better. An item can drain life, but provide a large decrease to casting delay. This allows a glass cannon build or shifting healing from passive individual healing to placing party healing totems. The balance brakes later in the game. The variety of options allows builds that are too powerful. Spells that hit an area with damage over time become obsolete. Where epic difficulty provides an enormous challenge early on, requiring varied party setup and slow time to survive, it provides hardly any challenge on later levels. The game tells you to play on a just doable difficulty. This might be true, but also replaces flexibility by min-maxing. At high difficulty, the choice between a physical axe and fire sword is replaced by picking the weapon with most penetration. The story deserves some mention. It is unique and starts by complementing the atmosphere. I was enthralled, till the Organthe. From there the story derails, completely. I found it bogus as hell, and worse. After completing the story (100+ hours), I’m left confused about all the non-sense.

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Posted on: March 27, 2019

Koyote.272

Владелец игры

Игр: 56 Отзывов: 3

Excellent little game

Good gameplay that overstays its welcome a bit. Honestly, the game could have been a little shorter, it becomes repetitive at one point. However, I am not going to lower the score because of that. Also, the game could have paced its difficulty better. Hard is not really hard, it's more normal. Story becomes better as the game progresses. Dialogue could have been better but I understand the limitations of an indie game. Good job devs, for a fair price you get 40-50 hours of very fun gameplay.

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