The Tower - Idle Tower Defense 4+

Only being honest here
……Ok so Progression is extremely slow. As a free to play player prepare to watch many ads to get gems. I’m here for that aspect of the game although pay to win is not necessarily the goal we know you have to make money so the option is technically there. However the Lab time it takes to upgrade certain aspects of the game take astronomically long periods of time without GEMS which cost money/offerwall/ads/events I just started 2-3 days ago and to upgrade game speed from 3 to 3.5 takes 1 day 10 hours or spend 60 gems. I can wait that long don’t get me wrong but it makes me wonder about game speed 10 and how many diamonds that’ll cost then bc if it says I have to wait 11 days and 500 diamonds I’ll most likely lose interest and drop the game before I watch that many ads. Sure the lab time reduction is an option to upgrade but what a crazy grind with slow reward and im sure it won’t be the only statistic that takes eons to upgrade either.
MAJOR COMPLAINT
There’s no clan or guilds at all just a tournament every so many days… I’ll mention there’s not even world boss to work towards with dps/wave completion rewards. I can’t even get my group of friends to play this game bc it’s not multiplayer at all. This game has MAD potential but honestly I feel a bit let down compared to what it could be. Hope it gets reworked guys sorry to be so critical for now it’s a 3.5 for me. Will round to 4 bc I have hope gg 👍

Games pretty good and straight forword. Lots of ads but honestly, I could tell the game filled my ADD desire of something to do during dead moments in my job. So i paid the measly $10 to support them and bypass that. It is grindy. But thats the point in this game. Its a time killer clicker when you only have 5-10 min. The game saves your run if you exit the app on the last wave of enemies you did. Its constant supply of mechanics keep small things and investments churning with every small amount you gather.

The only thing from me that is keeping this 4 stars is i have a bug. If im connected to the internet in wifi, when i load into the game. It only shows a black screen. If i go to my quick iphone tab, disable wifi momentarily on bootup, then turn it back on once i get to the main screen. It reconnects and using wifi and not my data and works properly. Unsure whats causing this. But its not that much of an issue as im still able to get in and play. Just would be nice if this didn’t hapoen. Will change to 5 stars if this small thing is fixed.

Never wrote a review. But this game is worth it for fitting my needs in what i was searching for. $10. Worth it for ad removal. Recommend that at least.

I’ve enjoyed the game a fair bit, got probably close to a couple dozen hours in it. My biggest problem right now are how it’s kicked me twice from two very long runs. The first was understandable, it kicked me because I “played less than ten rounds the last time I was on.” I’m assuming this is to prevent save scumming in order to get better rng, so fair enough. The other reason that just happened was because “I opened that round more than 10 times”. Or in other words, I opened the game, played a bit, and closed it more than 10 times in a round. This one I do not understand at all, as games can go for 1000’s of waves, and take several hours to get there. I’d be able to stomach both of these more if there was any kind of warning before hand, but now I’m really disheartened because what if there is another rule I’m unaware of that’s gonna kick me at wave 2000???

Edit: making an update here. I lowered my review from 4 stars to 2 stars as random resets are still an issue. I started on wave 29 last night, played until wave 41 just because I wanted to play a few minutes before bed, and I wake up this morning to see that not only did it scrap my run, but it also forgot to do my research that I set it to do last night. It’s done this before but I would’ve assumed it would be fine considering I had the game open for more than 5 minutes.