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Lead a party down a mysterious tower, exploring its floors and directing real-time battles that you can pause or slow.
Released 12 Apr 2018
Pause-Time Arena Battles
Position Four Heroes
Trace Tower Histories
A new kind of RPG awaits you. A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Now with RPGlite and Permadeath for fast-paced game.
Developed by Event Horizon · Published by Event Horizon
You lead a group of champions into a vast tower, descending through its floors to investigate a world where magic and technology have collided. The tower’s history and the cause of its ruin emerge through the main story, companion conversations, and scattered records.
Explore isometric levels to uncover secrets, find equipment and resources, and solve puzzles. When enemies appear, combat shifts to a separate arena where your party faces waves of foes and other encounters. Position characters and use their abilities in real time, pausing or slowing the action to issue commands.
Build your party from seven classes, upgrading skills along one of two branches and choosing gear to suit your approach. Loot can be crafted, upgraded, or enchanted, while city improvements support character progression. Companion-alignment choices can also affect party bonuses; optional modes include RPGlite and Permadeath.
Players who enjoy Tower of Time often praise its unfolding tower mystery, lore, and atmosphere, as well as the tactical possibilities of pausing battles and customizing a party. Some also find the characters and story engaging. Other reviewers say the repeated wave encounters and lengthy reading make the campaign feel slow or tiring, and complaints about loot, controls, and combat balance also recur.
Tower of Time is an incredible adventure packed with over 50 hours of gameplay, hand-crafted levels, and a rich story told through cinematics. Taking classic RPG gameplay to the next level, Tower of Time features flexible character development, thousands of pieces of loot and equipment and the complex and tactical Arrow-Time real-time combat system.
Important note: Combat in Tower of Time is different. Each battle is designed like a tactical puzzle. If you want to enjoy combat, you need to pick the difficulty which is adequately challenging to you skill set and adjust it as you progress. On highest difficulty level it is very demanding and requires you to find the synergies between classes, skills and the equipment.
Immerse yourself in a world where technology meets magic with devastating consequences. Gather a group of diverse champions and lead them through the tower. Hundreds of lore books and scattered pieces of information slowly reveal the history of Artara as your party of adventurers approach their fate.
Take ultimate strategic control of each battle with the Arrow-Time combat system that slows the action down to a crawl or pauses it. Plan ahead and position your party where you need them for ultimate effect. Use Arrow-Time to react to new threats, deploy devastating new spells and attacks and counter enemy attacks. No two encounters are ever the same. On harder difficulties - look at each battle as a tactical puzzle.
For those who do not like or have time for typical long cRPG and prefer fast-paced combat oriented games - RPGlite mode cuts down the story content and lets you focus on party building and tactical combat. With Permadeath option for those who appreciate a really tough challenge and want to test their skills. Compare yourself with others via Score and DPS Race leaderboards.
7 Unique character classes, each with different strengths and weaknesses.
Complex skill system with two exclusive enhancement trees and multitude of options.
Skill Gestures - draw some of the skills as you want.
Gravity manipulation – leap large distances to scatter your enemies or draw them in.
Rich equipment system.
150 enemies with unique skills and tactics.
Face 50 Bosses wielding a diverse range of skills and spells.
Five difficulty levels, including Epic difficulty (not recommended for new players).
Multiple combat modes ensure that there's plenty of variety and fresh challenges ahead.
Travel through hand-crafted levels that have been carefully designed to challenge you.
New character progression system.
Unique Party Alignment system.
Combat Challenges, designed to test your tactical and party-building skills.
Crafting, enchanting, legendary items.
Upgradeable city.
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
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| Achievements | 77 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 77/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
