June 29, 2023 - Day 180 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 199

Game: Tower of Time

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Apr 12, 2018
Library Date: Dec 21, 2022
Unplayed: 191d (6m9d)
Playtime: 43m

Tower of Time is a... I guess top-down tactical RPG? It's a squad-based dungeon crawler that has some very nice, polished aspects, and some "we used interns for this" design decisions that feel a little jarring.

And so much text to wade through.

I'm not sure how much actual *playtime* was in that 43 minutes, because this is a game in love with telling its own narrative, in grandiose text screen after text screen that you need to get through to actually play the damn thing.

The actual dungeon-crawling aspect isn't too bad. The squad-based strategy is this odd mix of tactical & real-time strategy.

You can pause the action and go semi-tactical, or you can slow down time by clicking on one of the squad members action keys which is almost like bullet-time.

Live switching between the different squad members in play and trying to synergise their skills feels a little bit like the aspects of character synergy in Honkai Starrail.

The first level dungeons are quite pretty, but I'm not sure if the slowdowns during the game were due to the graphics settings, or that it was running off spinning rust.

Tower of Time is:

3: OK

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Tower of Time gefällt mir richtig gut. Deutlich anders als die #RPG die ich bisher kenne wobei ich PoE, Pathfinder und Tyranny auch noch nicht gespielt habe.
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