Land of Towers Reviews

When I first heard about a slow-paced, atmospheric crafting game, I was immediately intrigued. The promise of no-rush, peaceful crafting gameplay with a creative carpentry system sounded like exactly the kind of experience I would love. Unfortunately, I can’t recommend this game in its current state. The main issue lies in the lack of attention to detail and quality-of-life features. The physics are unpredictable, with objects wiggling and jumping around for no apparent reason. One of the first mechanics the game teaches you is to grab objects from a distance. However, the items retain collision physics even as they’re summoned toward you at high speed, often resulting in chaos. Objects not nailed down go flying everywhere—sometimes even off the map. This makes it impossible to create neat little stockpiles, forcing you to stash everything in your inventory. As a result, the map feels empty and devoid of the satisfaction of organizing and tidying your space. For example, when I started the “Watch” scenario, I dismantled a crate and tried to store the nails in a container. But every time I attempted to grab something with my hand, the game struggled to register what I was trying to pick up. Using the distant grab feature was more precise, but every time I grabbed a plank or a nail, other items would fly across the room. After painstakingly gathering everything into a small bucket, I placed it on a shelf—only to have it launch itself across the map. I spent a while putting everything back into the container on the table, but even then, trying to grab a single nail caused multiple items to scatter again. How is this supposed to be fun or meditative? The carpentry mechanics also suffer. When you freeze two objects to nail them together, as soon as you nail one piece, it unfreezes and falls. This leaves the second piece frozen but misaligned, making the freeze feature almost useless unless you’re nailing a single item. Larger objects, like the tutorial ladder, are nearly impossible to move with precision and tend to knock over everything around them, as they glitch and wiggle unpredictably. The visuals aren’t particularly impressive either. Textures are either overly simplistic or noisy and confusing. For example, good luck finding a nail that’s gone flying outdoors against the ground texture. The ambient lighting is basic, and the game’s performance is subpar given the simplicity of its graphics. The UI design also leaves much to be desired: there’s no dedicated “play” menu—just two modes crammed into the main menu. The in-game inventory menu doesn’t rotate to face you, meaning you often end up staring at its back. The inventory itself only displays one item at a time, requiring you to scroll through it with large arrows. A grid or list view would be a huge improvement. There’s also a lack of logic in the gameplay. For example, you can eat food during the first task, but eating serves no actual purpose, nor is there a way to produce food. Many of the mechanics feel like disconnected ideas that don’t align with the game’s intended relaxing experience. I adore the concept the game is trying to deliver, but I’m deeply frustrated by its execution. I understand this might be the work of a small team (or even a solo developer), but the game has been out for nearly a year. By now, simple fixes like disabling object collisions during distant grabs, allowing players to place items directly into containers, or keeping objects frozen until intentionally unfrozen should have been implemented. I won’t ask for a refund because I purchased the game at a discount, but I feel misled by the number of positive reviews, which seem to ignore the numerous issues I encountered. To me, this feels less like a polished product and more like an amateur project still in need of some work.

It seemed to run fine, but I literally couldn't choose a save file. I tried stretching over to it, walking (both swinging my arms and the thumbsticks), tilting my head in the directions, pulling myself, and a combo of pressing/holding various buttons to teletport or jump. I might not have even really liked the game if it is just manually building things so maybe it's better this way. I was using htc vive so maybe it just doesn't like my headset