The Tower - Honest Reviews - Introduction and Tutorial - October 2022

〰️〰️〰️ What is The Tower? 〰️〰️〰️

The Tower is a Free-to-Play Tower Defense strategy game created by Tech Tree Games. This game is intended to be played on mobile devices.

〰️〰️〰️ What kind of game is The Tower? 〰️〰️〰️

You are in command of The Tower. The objective is to keep the tower functioning with tactical decisions during the attacks and strategic planning in between rounds.

〰️〰️〰️ Is The Tower “Pay to Win”? What do you get for spending real world money? 〰️〰️〰️

While one does not need to use real world money to play this game, one can use money to purchase gems which can be used to purchase card slots, extra cards and speed up time-gated upgrades.

One can also earn gems by watching advertisements.

〰️〰️〰️ Is there any objectionable material in The Tower? 〰️〰️〰️

There is nothing objectionable in this game.

〰️〰️〰️ Is The Tower fun to play? Is the game challenging? Is this game a grind? 〰️〰️〰️

The Tower is a “thinking man's” game. As such, strategy is more important than reflexes or twitching.

There is not so much a challenge in this game as the tower always improves and the player just progresses further.

There is a bit of a grind in this game as one must wait for time gated upgrades to finish.

〰️〰️〰️ Is The Tower playable on a mobile device? 〰️〰️〰️

As the game is more strategic than tactical, it is definitely playable on a mobile device. However, older mobile devices may see some choppiness; even with the simplistic graphics of this game.

〰️〰️〰️ What is the story in The Tower? 〰️〰️〰️

There is no story in the Tower. Just squares trying to destroy the hexagonal tower.

〰️〰️〰️ Is this a commitment game or a casual game? 〰️〰️〰️

The Tower is a commitment game. This is not a game you can play for five (5) minutes at a time.

〰️〰️〰️ What is this video about? 〰️〰️〰️

This video shows the first 20 minutes into this game. Seeing enemies attack the tower. Purchasing an upgrade. Seeing another round of enemies attack the tower - unlocking more upgrades and so on. As such, this video gives a good taste as to what the game is about.

〰️〰️〰️ Anything else we should know? 〰️〰️〰️

The strategic element is not really shown in this video and would be difficult to showcase.

Tiers are unlocked by surviving 100 waves.

Tournaments are unlocked by reaching level 60.

There are periodic quests.

There is an active Discord server for this game.

Purchase the speed up options when you are able. Rounds can last hours which can lead to a boring and monotonous experience.