Tower of Time Reviews

The game play is boring and not well balanced. The writing and story are awful. I feel stupid for having played it so long.

Tower of Time blends tactical real-time combat with deep customization and a rich setting, creating an experience that stands out from typical dungeon crawlers. It reminds me of Aarklash: Legacy with its emphasis on positioning and party synergy.

i played the game in normal difficulty with tutorials checked. If game wasnt translated to my language i wouldnt be able to make it to 4 hours. First impression is good. I thought that game look like hereos3 concept and i kinda liked it. If it wanst feeling that much dull. Fight system is not bad, skill systems, items are cool. But most of the gameplay is reading text around stuff then fight. i dont know i couldnt get into it and didnt have much fun after some time. i cant kinda name it whats the problem. i give it 6/10.

It's definitely a game with some characters and a story.

Cool game, given the price. The art style is appealing and it has interesting game customisation and character development options. Nothing revolutionary, but it scratches the itch.

Truly enjoyable for about the first 75% of the game, then it drags on a bit too long. Inventory becomes cumbersome and hard to manage. I never even crafted one item as the game gives you a bounty of equipment to sort through. I picked a team of four (one tank and three dps) and never diverted unless the game forced me to do so. I leveled up everyone and made sure every character had some good gear and skills but in the end, my core four where enough to finish the game without any issue. For me, 50 hours of gameplay and bought on an extreme sale makes for a recommendation.

Tower of Time feels like a refreshed take on the classic Dungeon Siege formula. If you loved that game, you'll probably enjoy this. Plenty of party skill and equipment management to set your characters up for success on battle maps where you control abilities and positioning and your party handle the rest. There is a story and over-world exploration elements that are interesting, but not groundbreaking. Both elements do their job of ferrying you from battle to battle, but are not a defining factor of the game-play experience. Come for the party management and battle game-play and you'll get your money's worth. There are alternative modes that would make a replay more interesting, but the main campaign looks to be plenty long to justify the asking price.

[b]Tower of Time[/b] is a real-time-with-pause isometric RPG from Event Horizon, mixing classic dungeon crawling with some modern twists. While it looks like a straightforward fantasy romp at first glance, it hides a surprisingly deep tactical layer beneath its story and setting. You descend into a mysterious upside-down tower buried deep in the earth. The narrative unfolds piece by piece as you go deeper, told through text segments, environmental clues, and companion banter. The world has a decayed, post-cataclysm feel, where magic is both a dwindling resource and a dangerous force. The lore is well-developed, though a little heavy on exposition at times. This is where [b]Tower of Time[/b] stands out. Battles are real-time but allow pausing to issue precise commands. Instead of just spamming abilities, you need to think about positioning, line of sight, and crowd control. You can slow time, place tactical objects (like walls or traps), and carefully control ability cooldowns. You control a small group of heroes, each with unique skills and upgrade trees. There’s no endless loot grind—gear is limited but highly customizable, letting you tweak stats to fit your playstyle. The game encourages experimentation but can punish sloppy tactics, especially on higher difficulties. AI enemies use AoE attacks, flanking, and spell combos, so standing still is rarely an option. While not AAA in graphical fidelity, [b]Tower of Time[/b] has detailed environments, varied dungeon biomes, and nice lighting effects. The atmosphere is supported by a moody soundtrack and solid voice acting for key characters. If you enjoy RPGs with a strong tactical layer—somewhere between Baldur’s Gate and Divinity: Original Sin in spirit—[b]Tower of Time[/b] offers a satisfying mix of strategic combat and rich lore. It’s not perfect in pacing or variety, but its clever battle system and customization make it a hidden gem for fans of thoughtful dungeon crawling. [h1]8/10[/h1] DISASTER | BAD | MEDIOCRE | OKAY | GOOD | [b][u]GREAT[/u][/b] |AMAZING| MASTERPIECE [quote] Reviewed on: Win11 Home 64-bit, Intel i5-11600K, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB TUF, 32GB DDR4-3600 RAM, 2 x Kingston NV1 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, Internet Broadband 1000/1000 Mbit[/quote] [quote] If you like this review, then please consider giving it a thumbs up. I've also reviewed other games that you might find interesting. If so please follow [u][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27418263/] Top of the Chart.[/url][/u]

It was a pretty quick play on easy story mode, but I could see how one could sink many hours into this fairly expansive linear RPG. (Picked it up and beat it in about 16 hours). I considered trying it on a harder difficulty, but the will just wasn't there. Pros: * The tactical combat is pretty fun. Picking a party that complements each other from the available options was a fun puzzle. The mostly autopilot combats once I had a good team were enjoyable for me. * Itemizing characters was pretty fun. The variety of characters available and their equipment options was fairly simplistic, but still encouraged enough creative space to really optimize a style for them. While some items can be crafted, it was exciting to find items with enchantments that you couldn't craft, so it made looking through the loot worthwhile. * Some cut-scenes and dialogues are skippable. Not so Pro: * At the start of every combat, you have to set up your initial summons and auto-recasts. Would be nice if it remembered settings from the previous battle, and if all abilities could be on auto-cast. * Even on "fast exploration mode" walking around and especially backtracking felt like a big time sink that was not fun. * Eventually items started to feel a bit bland. I started looking for specific modifiers on items (e.g. attack speed, skill damage), then otherwise they just started piling up/cluttering my inventory. * Not all cut-scenes and dialogues are skippable (forces you to watch some slow animations). Summary: Worth playing at least as a once-through, although I personally don't feel very compelled to re/play it.

Tower of Time's gameplay is a good concept that feels unpolished and a little undercooked. I can see what they were pulling from, the combat in this game makes me think of WarCraft 3, specifically the missions where you only have a handful of hero units to work with, each with their own abilities and characteristic that make them unique. On the face this seems great, the problems come in with how they try to implement it. The game is 90% combat but you fight in the same arenas over and over again. The actual combat is kind of lacking, unit barks are muffled, its the sounds of combat are nonexistent so there can be a huge melee of your dudes and a bunch of angry skeletons and there's no clanging swords or other notable sounds of physical abuse. There's the occasional twist on the formula but over all it's very repetitive. The skills similarly also seriously lack oomph, bursts of ice magic and explosions, while effective, don't really have any pizazz and end up feeling limp. Exploring the overworld between fights is pretty interesting, and its a neat way to have good gear hidden by secrets for you to find, you can also find little piles of gold all over the place to nickle and dime your way into having enough to upgrade one of your characters. The problem being that it's still takes a distant back seat to the combat in terms of importance and how much of it there is. There are also some challenge fights you can do for gear and to test character builds, but they're more or less the same as regular fights but with boosted stat numbers, and the're presented as a literal checklist of stuff to do, like a chore, instead of being something to make the player go "HMMMMM" and consider beating on orcs and skeletons for cool rewards. I want to like it, it's working with a formula that I know can work, but I think the way it's put together doesn't really tap into that potential and it falls flat as a result. It might work for you but it just doesn't click for me.