Dark Tower

The trailer doesn't show you any real gameplay, so a lot of people might be wondering what this game is. Basically it is a tactical resource management RPG akin to "Tower of the Sorcerer", "DROD RPG", and "DungeonUp", the latter 2 of which can be found on Steam. As a huge fan of this genre of game, I have over 250 hours on DROD RPG, have completed Tower of the Sorcercer in it's many iterations on mobile, as well as DungeonUp. It's a great thinking-mans genre when executed well, unfortunately this game fails massively due to a few reasons I will try to explain for people not used tot hese typs of games. The games I mentioned above have a few things that are critical for a game of this type to be executed properly. For starters, the game does not reveal the stats of the monsters until you fight them, which in itself is bad because it makes it impossible to form a plan without face-tanking something first to see how bad it is. It is compounded by the fact that the game autosaves every move you make without the ability to undo a move, something the others games of this type allow. This means you have to make a decision blind that can ruin your run completely, basically forcing y…

Dark Tower is another puzzle game in the guise of an RPG, taking after the free indie game Tower of the Sorcerer, the Steam game DungeonUp, or the DSiWare game Crystal Adventure. This one may well be the worst of those, however, because many of the key fun elements of the genre are missing. The puzzle elements of the genre are fairly simplistic: Basically, fighting monsters is completely deterministic, and you can tell what the results of any fight will be before you get into it, in terms of how much damage you'll suffer, so you just need to figure out what order is the best for fighting things, what to put off fighting until you're stronger and can defeat it without taking damage, et cetera. However, unlike all the other entries into this genre, you can't actually tell what an enemy's stats are until you fight it, and you can't attempt to fight an enemy that you wouldn't defeat, so if you run into an enemy you can't beat, the game doesn't tell you whether your attack is too low or your defense is too low, you just need to spend points and pray, and reset the game if you can't do that or if you did it wrong. The game also autosaves after every step, so there is no way to save bef…

I made it my mission to look past the graphics and see the underlying positives. I went in with the best of intentions, to see the good in this and overlook the bad and be the 2nd positive review. Sadly I can't do this now because I actually TRIED the game and it is HORRID. Even though there are 10+ people in the game's credits this looks, feels, and plays like a project a student project. Boring as hell, makes no sense, no instructions, no tutorial, nothing. Trash. I refunded after 10 minutes. Should have refunded immediately.

Really fun and challenging maze game.

This game is poor. I won't go to much length to say more than the other reviewers. There is nothing to the combat, the "puzzles" just force you to do things in a specific order, they aren't really puzzles they just turn what could be an open-ish game into a tunnel you're forced through. The art is mediocre, but doesn't bother me. The reason I mention it at all is that at least if it had nice art that would be a point in its favor. Overall I would rate it as the worst steam game I own.

There isn't much more that I can add to the other reviews for this game as they pretty much say it all. Not worth the money I spent. I’m just glad I didn’t pay a lot for it.