The Tower - Idle Tower Defense App Reviews

Unless you pay it takes days too start too get better. There is a strategy to this but this boils down to click upgrades,play, possibly pay if you want, more upgrades, play, maybe a new mechanic once in a while, repeat

The gameplay is okay, and there’s a reasonable structure for a progression mechanic, but progression in that mechanic is really slow. And if you want to grind for the cheaper in-app currency, then you have to leave your phone open so it can battle on its own, which isn’t great? (Or you can always pay attention to the battles, but progression is slow enough that you won’t want to.)

My routine is getting home from work, lighting a candle, putting on some tv and playing this game for an hour. It’s really fun, i just wish the permanent upgrades were a bit stronger. I get it’s meant to be played over a long amount of time to eventually get all the upgrades, but sometimes it’d be like 400 coins to upgrade your defense % from like 1.5 to 2%, what is a 2% damage reduction even going to do for me, you know? And why does it cost like half the coins i get from a GOOD match? Anyways,

The game has a lot of promise but between the aggressively expensive monetization and horribly slow progression it makes it kind of hard to stay. It takes like 6 hours for a tower defense at 4x speed which is locked behind week long upgrades which is kind of insane

The game was fun for a while and I would forgive how slowly you progress if this was a true idle game, but it’s not. How can this be an idle game when you must sit there and babysit the upgrades throughout the battle? An idle game should allow the player to let the game play itself while they do something else with their time and this does not.

I love the game, is great! The only downside I’ve come across is that when I watch an add for gems, it gets stuck and I have to relaunch the game to get the timer to start down ticking. Sometimes the end of an ad just crashes my game. Unsure why that is, but otherwise no issues whatsoever!

Progression is extremely slow, unless you're a popular YouTuber or OnlyFans model to spend way too much money to progress. Reddit users have done math and determined exactly how long it would take to meaningfully upgrade or research perks. My advice to devs is to reduce the length of time each research takes, and remove the timegating so one research doesn't take over an entire week to complete, without shelling out dozens of dollars per instance. These aren't microtransactions, they're macrotra

When I’m finish with a game, I watch an ad a lot of time the add freezes and I loose my whole reward because the only way to exit the add is to close the entire application from running. It slow my progression way more Thant already is

I want to give this game 5 stars because I can say as a free player, I have spent hundreds of hours progressing. I am giving it 1 though. Maybe it’s my fault for not creating an account with this game, but this last update completely reset my game. I had managed to get the 1000 diamond card slot, several cards at 3 stars or more, 3 ultimate weapons, millions in upgrades, all to lose it over a 30 second update. I am really debating whether to start over or just quit the game altogether. So disapp

good concept but very grindy.

Played this game consistently for 1 1/2 years. The early to early-mid game feels like you’re making goals and achievements. It eventually turns into gambling for modules, however, and you need a boatload of money to get what you need to unlock the items needed to actually progress. Browse the subreddit and see what I’m talking about, the game turns from creative expression into insanely long grinds requiring a 2nd device to run as the game isn’t offline idle in any capacity. Seriously don’t was

This game has lots of potential but is wayyyyyyyy to slow paced. Really really needs to speed things up as far as progression though the game.