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 👍

The Tower is a unique and satisfying tower defense game. I really like the overall gameplay mechanics and the retro style. You find yourself in a loop similar to rogue-lites where you die a lot, but with accumulated XP build up your character with permanent improvements each time, in this case your tower is your character and that loop can be very satisfying. There are permanent upgrades you make between battles, and then during battles like you are constantly monitoring enemy waves and upgrading your arsenal, e.g. range, damage, multi-shot achance, thorns chance, etc.

My main complaint would be that it can feel a little grindy. The progression is slow, you will unlock a few skills initially, and then you have to grind for some time before you can unlock the next tier, during that time you just upgrade what you have. I would like to see the progression move a little faster with perhaps more weapon variety instead of mostly boosting stats, perhaps that exists at level 240 or whatever like in the ad I saw, but I’ve been playing casually for weeks and the highest I’ve reached is 40. The foundation is here for a truly unique and amazing game, just needs a few tweaks to really shine IMO.

This game has extremely slow progress compared to most mobile games. I’ve been playing for a few days in my off time and still feel like I’ve barely touched even 1% of the game. In a way it makes it more fun though, you can’t earn everything in the game in a few days or a week like most mobiles games these days and just end up bored. They actually put some thought into the game. Most of the slow progress is because the health and damage of the enemies really takes off and doesn’t stop. So you constantly have to play over and over through however many waves you can get through to earn “C” to have permanent upgrades to your own health and damage from the beginning of each round. You’ll have to play one round to get 2 or maybe 3 permanent upgrades, and there’s 20 different upgrades you can do to your tower and then however many times you can level up each upgrade which also get more expensive. Devs if you see this, a simple solution would be a higher payout of “C” so you can get permanent upgrades faster and make better progression. Even something like watching an ad for 1.5x bonus, make it 2x.