Tower Fortress

I played Tower Fortress as a kid almost a decade ago around release and remembered it as a fun but unforgiving vertical roguelike. But coming back to it after playing similar games, such as Downwell, Tower Fortress just feels clunky, inconsistent, and heavily luck-based. For any game, especially for an unforgiving roguelike, inconsistency makes playing it extremely frustrating, with losses almost completely out of the player's control. For starters the hitboxes feel clunky and inconsistent. Your double jump in-game is like a sonic spin jump where most enemies cannot hurt you, while you can hurt them. The problem is that if you touch a platform, or wall, you will lose the spin and become vulnerable. This should be fine, but some enemies can go through the walls or floors, making certain situations where you just barely touch a wall or floor instead of an enemy, even if it looks like the enemy is sticking out of the floor/wall. Sometimes you can shoot while spinning, sometimes you will stop spinning for the frame you shot, it feels so inconsistent... Can we safely shoot while spinning or not? Standing too close facing the outer walls makes your bullets completely not register. Thi…

I used to play this a lot on my phone back in the day. I couldn't install the game's APK on my modern phone, and then learned that it was on steam.

just get it on mobile

hoorah my childhood

PROS: It's so fun that I also bought both iOS + Steam version to play forverer. CONS : It's so hard that I haven't yet finished the game xD

roguelike with a nice simple gameplay loop. me like