Addictive, replayable roguelike loop
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“randomly generated maps make for infinite replay-ability and it's just a joy to play.”
Steam review · 156.1 h played ↗
Rogue Tower
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 83%Very Positive · 83%Die of Death Games2022Tower Defense · Roguelike · Strategy
−40%$14.99$8.99
US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A simple but deep roguelike tower defense with expanding procedural maps, great music and high replayability. Skip it if you hate heavy RNG, missing QoL like speed-up and saves, or an abandoned game.
Great for
Tower defense fans who like chill, replayable runs with RNG-driven builds, ideally with QoL mods
Main risk
Heavy RNG and missing basics (no speed-up, no save, bad UI) in a game the dev has abandoned
What players love
Varied towers and procedural maps
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“What is really is cool is that each map is procedurally generated and can create for a unique challenge each and every game.”
Steam review · 22.9 h played ↗
Simple on the surface, deep strategy
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“It's so SIMPLE but so DEEP! I can't get enough!”
Steam review · 33.9 h played ↗
Relaxing game to play in the background
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“A fun game to keep on in the background and slowly puzzle your way though.”
Steam review · 333.5 h played ↗
Great soundtrack and sound design
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“soundtrack has absolutely no business being this good.”
Steam review · 17.2 h played ↗
Good mods and lots of achievements
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“Also it has 140 achievements which is wild for the achievement hunters.”
Steam review · 34.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
No speed-up button
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“you cannot fast forward, the developer knows of this but refuses to change the game for his players”
Steam review · 20.5 h played ↗
Terrible, hard-to-read UI
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“It even HAS a UI scale option, but it's not even 1/10th what it needs to be.”
Steam review · 11.4 h played ↗
Too much RNG decides runs
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“the game is basically just unfun gambling with the path determining 99% of what you do.”
Steam review · 24.7 h played ↗
Balance patches ruined it; unlocks dilute card pool
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Now the dev has decided to endlessly tweak and adjust the game, with every change making it worse.”
Steam review · 43.8 h played ↗
Dev abandoned the game
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Abandonware. Even worse, the creator was asked to implement QOL changes such as gamespeed updates, deck option updates.”
Steam review · 124.2 h played ↗
No save mid-run and no cloud saves
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Great Game, but not being able to save mid-run is a deal breaker.”
Steam review · 14.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable145 MB
Minimum
OSWindows 7
ProcessorIntel i5
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsAMD Radeon Vega 8
Storage145 MB available space
OSWindows 7
ProcessorIntel i5
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsAMD Radeon Vega 8
Storage145 MB available space
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