QSP - Completed - Tower [v24.11.23] [Towergames]

This is pure grind:

• Can only advance 15mins at a time.
• school/gym adds +1/day to skills and you need +100
• Required tasks can only be done once a week.
• relationship points go up 50/week and need +1000.
• must progress multiple girls to move forward

You will spend 10hrs of repetitive clicking to unlock 5mins of sex.
...and that's with the walkthrough.

Devoting three hours to a repetitive game without any substantial progress has proven to be a disheartening experience. It appears that the gameplay itself is stuck in a monotonous loop, lacking the variety or challenges needed to make the investment of time worthwhile. This repetitive nature of the game, rather than a system glitch, is what has led to a sense of frustration and the feeling of time being spent in vain.

The anticipation of engaging gameplay and the potential for meaningful achievements were replaced by the realization that the game's design involves a continuous, unproductive cycle. The three-hour effort invested did not yield the expected enjoyment or advancement within the game. This situation highlights the importance of game developers incorporating diverse and engaging elements to keep players motivated and satisfied.

Reflecting on this experience, it becomes evident that the lack of progression in a game, characterized by repetitive actions, can diminish the overall enjoyment and discourage continued participation. Developers should strive to introduce fresh challenges and dynamic content to maintain player interest, fostering an environment where the time spent in the game is both enjoyable and rewarding.

Gameplay:
+ Life management with money earning, buying items
+ Events based on daytime
- Execution of life management is bad. Very linear game, gets boring fast
- Grindy. You do always the same for hours to progress
- Grind-reward balance is bad

Frequency of scenes:
- Very grindy. It takes quite a time until you get scenes.

Dialogues:
- Game feels like it was supposed ot be a mix of Story/VN and Life Management. But there is no real story, but alot of gap-filler dialogues

--> All in one: Like any other text based / html game, it had potential. But execution is very linear and repetitive. It gets boring fast. Being grindy is ok, but having a bad grind-reward balance is not ok. A positive way of grindy would be, if there were just alot of scenes, and to get all of them, you need to invest time. But in this case, it is more like you need to invest alot of time to even get a single proper scene. 2 of 10.

Should I give it a try?
Not really sure to be honest. I played quite a few html based games (with picutres, not purely text). Most of them have the same issues: No good story, so not worth to read dialogues, and very grindy. It would be bearable, when scenes were more frequent and easier to get. You can look into this game, but the moment you notice, that it doesn't feel satisfying, then you can stop, because it needs lots of grind to get more satisfying.

The models he chose were great. As great as they are though, the amount of grinding it takes to move the story forward is not worth it-- if you can even work out how to move forward at all. The hint system is bad, The grind is terrible. Outside of the models, I really find it hard to say something positive about this. You should not need a walkthrough to play a game and if you do then you have bad development.

The game is challenging at first with it's unique hint system, but once you get into the groove of things and read the text, it becomes fairly straight forward. The dev seems very proactive with wanting to help people and improve things.

The videos and breadth of characters is good, I'm looking forward to see how the dev expands it.

The game moves EXTREMELY slow. And has a broken hint system. Even at the time of this rating. The dev stated improvements to the hint system. This game does not utilize a normal grind . IE do this so many times be rewarded with your cheese. It has time of day and situation specific events that if you miss. You have to do over. Over the period of w weekly calendar. With schedule obligations to attend school or your other ratings go down with another character. Which when you "Pile" it all together with the fact the the hint system goes completely silent for days in the game. Then if you mistakenly do something . You might get a hint.
In closing. if you are going to put that much onus on the player. At least make your hint system not completely useless

I have no idea how this has a rating above 2 stars. The game is so grindy, the hints it gives you are not helpful, the ways you increase stats are inconsistent (jogging with mom brings perversity from 270 to 290, but won't bring it to the milestone of 300?), there are forced events that if you don't do every day then you lose progress, like... this game can be summarized as "having no fucking idea what to do". I feel like I'm taking a college course, having to fucking dig through this thread to find hints from other sad people before me who struggled through this.

And on top of all that, the game is fucking 12GB lmao.

Loved this game! The variety of characters and progression is excellent, though it can take a little while to work out what you should be doing and where to go. Many of the events are set to trigger at specific days and times while also being dependent upon the relationship with each character (plus your progression with other characters).
While it's a QSP game, I found that the interface has been improved considerably so that it's simple to navigate and see the various options.
The videos and editing are perfect - each character has a variety of scenes and when things progress, there is a good choice of rewards.

As of v1.01.22, it's still being developed, but there is already heaps of content. There are a few rough edges around the place and it can be sometimes unclear as to what to do next, but eventually you figure it out. The developer's native language is not English, so the script is not perfect, but everything made sense in translation.

I will definitely be checking back on this one after more development has been done.

The game has potential a good choice of characters and even a story (in parts) well built. However, the lack of clearer tips or even a well developed Walkthrough makes the game slow and extremely tiring since most of the time you have to look for a way to activate an event or how to farm points necessary to activate it now that the tips usually tell you how much is needed to activate the event but don't give you a way to get it. I played for hours and I didn't get anywhere I believe that a better developed tips system, official step by step or not, would be of great help to at least make the game acceptable.

Game is a frustration, nothing makes sense.
Nothing seems to give progression.
Nothing is explained, you just stumble around like the fool you are that you used time to download this shitshow and giving it a chance.

I love QSP games, I loved "Son of a bitch" and I love this game too. Good work please keep it up. I really enjoy the game. But please release walkthrough too some times I really dont know what to do. İt's less complicated than other game and much more simple interface I like it!

Put about 3 hours into this with no clear progression or route to unlock content. Walkthroughs that are available are incomplete and indicate a huge grind to see anything. Not sure what the direction the developer is trying to take with this. It strikes me as a huge waste of time.

the game is way too big for the little amount of actual content it offers. It is very repetitive and you never really know what you have to do to progress with the characters and there is no real indication that you are making any kind of progress at all. It feels very empty and all in all unpolished. Honestly i do not believe it is wort the 7gb download.

The game itself is good and quite enjoyable but lacking content and has some big frustations.

The world and actors chosen for the different characters (mom, sis, neighboor, aunt etc.) are very nicely done.
The events are cool but too few.

The problems however are that all events are very time and location locked. Hints for these time and locations are also lacking.
The new FAQ option helps but this barely covers half the events in the game. The gamesize is also very large considering the content.
Another frustration is after completing events you can never see these again. Which means once you finish one characters event, that character is pretty much dead to the game from that point on.
Wanna keep hooking up with the aunt? Nope, not happenin...

I have faith the game will turn good.
But I'll wait several updates until that time before i pick it up again.

Mostly same as SOaB but it's ok as for me (sometimes modders or authors with same plot and structure made better games then original)
But ...
In this case, imho:
- you have QGEN and understanding qsp code - you can play
- if not - you can't

Reminds me of SOAB light. I like the QSP games, and don't mind the need for a grind/walkthrough b/c once you 'unlock' the character you get the varying scenes/scenarios-Living Room, Bathroom, Bedroom, Kitchen, random weekly scenes.

This game probably needs about 3-4 more update cycles to have enough content to really satisfy a gamer but I'm hoping the developer keeps putting content out.

At the moment v07.04 its just a chore. There is no logic or hints to any of the quests. its pretty much hope your in the right location at the right time for something to trigger.

Case in point - a new speech option triggers with the sister and you agree to go for a walk at the weekend. No other hints. To trigger the walk you need to go to the beach at the weekend between 1pm and 2pm

The only way to get to the beach is to leave home go into town and then get the bus to the beach. If you go to the beach at any other time there is literally nothing to do, the only option you have is to go straight home , so its unlikely you would have cause to go there let alone at the specific time required to move the story along.

The game works - as in there are no bugs but thats about all its got going for it at the moment.

I played for around 45 mins with cheats on and hardly managed to trigger any of the events, whithout cheats this would be total tedium.

Top gameI really liked the game. Cool actors. All videos are very high quality. Respect for the developer for continuing to develop the game after a conflict with an inadequate avanger. I hope there will be no more conflicts

Time for an update. All criticism aside I love this fresh game and the consistent choices Towergame made for characters / actresses, themes and videos. Finally high-resolution video and a temporary fresh look. I don't even care if the game might become 50+ GB in size in a year or so. So far the update cycle for Tower is far better than what some of us might be used from, you know. By now the game has a good amount of content worth an entire day of gameplay at least and guides that show your progress with each character together with important hints for story progression. Since the other dev become absent, this is my new reference for a modern taboo non-transformational real-porn game.