Gargadusa's Tower

I'm going to sink 300+ hours into this, I can already tell. It's like when I first discovered OOTP. This is the best game I've played in several years - or maybe more fairly the game which best matches my tastes anyway. It's exactly what it looks like. Football Manager or OOTP except you're running adventuring parties and guild stuff. It's incredibly deep. It's not half assed like you see with most small devs on a first release. It's hardcore. The interface is pretty complex. Look at the pictures and you'll see 13 tabs and if you click one of those you go to a submenu with more tabs. There's a lot of minor stuff that isn't really explained that well or hidden behind a button that you didn't see. It takes an exceptionally engaging game to to make a player work through an interface like that and figure things out particularly in the modern era. This is such a game. This probably isn't worth mentioning but in the mid-2000's I tried to write a game very much like this with VB6. I spent months on that thing... I had adventurers with myers-briggs personality types (these guys use the zodiac) in how they related to each other and so on. It didn't pan out, but Gargadusa's Tower is better than what I even imagined my game becoming when I dreamed it up and was super optimistic. This game isn't perfect. They allow you to transfer characters to other guilds like players on a sports team, and sometimes you get offers from other teams. Sounds great. But the penalties for transferring characters (morale loss for all remaining guild members and a hefty negotiating penalty when signing new characters) are so harsh that in practice it's best not to use this feature at all. Saving is clunky. There's an autosave but it doesn't always work, and saving manually involves too many steps considering how important it is and how often you use it. Still, $8.99 for this is really low. They're asking like $40 for whatever it is they're doing with OOTP these days and this is more enjoyable than OOTP. Very engaged dev. Easily worth full price if you have any interest in text based sims. If you read my reviews I am not a suckass who writes glowing reviews for everything. A fair amount are negative and even my positive reviews are normally noncommittal, but this game is outstanding and I hope it becomes a hit.

As someone that has logged 100's of hrs in OOTP and Football Coach: College Dynasty, if you love statistical and management sports games, then this is 10/10 and you need to play it.

Holy Crap!! Its a Dungeons and Dragons Franchise mode with online coop leagues like football manager. YES PLEASE!! MORE MORE MORE!!!

This game is not typically my cup of tea. 78 hours in and it has me hooked. It's got a ton of content and the developer is very active/responsive.

Do you like DnD? This is a game for you. Do you like Fm? This is a game for you. Do you like both? This is the best game for you :D

Unfortunately, this game is not for me. It isn't particularly user friendly, it is...actually kind of boring and makes me feel like I am doing my taxes. Along with the fact it gives me a bit of a sensory overload with just how many tabs and things there are. It's also kinda slow to get going.

THE best fantasy guild manager I have ever played. The amount of content is impressive for a game in Early Access.

Just started playing this and I love it. I bought it for a bunch of my friends. We going to start a multiplayer run and are really looking forward to this. Keep up the hard work.

A fantastic blend of fantasy and management sim games. I have sunk more hours then I would have liked just preparing for my parties next quest. This game has alot of depth, which keeps me coming back. I feel like II am part of the games world., which is impressive work from the developer. The more I progressed the more new features got added to the game for me to understand and master. The charactors in your guild are not just inter changeable units. They have goals and backstories of their own. The formed friendships and rivals. The character flaw and contract demands makes this GAME INTERESTING. Losing a good adventurer bring real lose. The combat brings complexity. Your choice of roles, classes, equipment and formations matter, especially in the tower. All in All this is a game took fantasy and management games and flushed out an impressive game.

This game is awesome! I got it originally because it looked like a game I could play on the side while I was waiting for matches to que up and stuff on other games, but it's a fully engaging complex game all on its own. I felt a bit lost at first, but I just kept going and learned as I played. I googled a few things, but it's pretty easy to learn as you go. I have been playing it nonstop for about 3 days now. Loving it so far.