Tower of Chaos

As my first experience with the Auto Battler genre, Tower of Chaos has been delightful. I'm enjoying the challenge, although some of that may come from my inexperience. The design and art style are fantastic and the story uncovered so far has been great!

Full playthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAFtZ4pMPIc620ulwAFk1g0tz7vFYCeH7 Overall a lot more fun than I was expecting a single player team fight tactics type game to be seeing the different combinations and monsters that you can unlock keeps each run feeling unique. The game also is freaking hard til you figure it out which is a good thing you have to really master the game to start clearing the towers. The voice actors do a wonderful job and it was cool progressing through each characters story arc and LIA is just one of the best characters in video games ever.

Fantastic game that still has content being added, originally was kinda iffy with the exploration part, but with the new trials mode, it truly scratches that TFT single player itch, good balance of challenge as well as strategy of using many many different units to truly create insane teams. Would highly recommend.

Having your "bench" greyed out because you didn't buy the meta progression building to "unlock" them. Not being able to combine units because you didn't unlock the meta progression... I understand the need and appeal of meta progression, However, locking fundamental mechanics to the genre behind them is just mind boggling to me.

Basically single player TFT. For some reason it just does not feel fun. They probably should have stuck more to the original TFT. All the stuff around it, the NPC's, story, running around the map to collect stuff, it just feels boring to me. During combat the cam has 2 positions, both dont feel great. Got it on sale, so ill keep it, but it is not something i would recommend a fellow TFT player.

I would give this game 3-4 of 10 points. It's okay and it's core I like it: You have a story, as usual you can buy permanent updates and so you have to do run after run after run to become better (stronger) and unlock more stuff. The exploration is an interesting idea, too. But even in the first hours it just feels to be grindy and I doubt that it will change the longer you play. The reason I give a thumbs down (and stopped playing it) is mostly because of the controls and (not existing) settings. Many QoL features are missing. For example: -I am asked EVERY time, if I want to explore "pretty" or "basic". Why can't i save that setting? - EVERY time I start a new run, I get tips like "get money and create interest". I get always the same 5 tips. Yes, I used the middle setting (some tips) but when I'Ve seen (and confirmed) the tips a few times I don't need to see it again every time. - Why can't i close menus/screens with ESC? For example: With L you can change the units or buy new, position them on the field etc. When I'm done, I want to press ESC to close the loadout and continue exploring. Every time the game menu opens.. The worst (for me) is the size and missing highlighting …