Gargadusa's Tower

Extremely fun and whimsical roster management guild sim with an extremely active developer patching the beta client daily and the live client weekly with suggestions/bug fixes from the Discord. There is the stated intention to move away from AI writing and portrait generation, but for now it has it.

Didn't expect much, but this is a Gem of a game. There is a lot of reading though, so if you don't like to read, this game might not be for you. Even the tutorial isn't the best imo, but there is definitely a lot of meat of a game here!

I keep going to the next day. must be good.

Great adventure guild simulation game. It really scratches the itch of managing and optimizing and progressing as you build up your roster of idiots and send them to their glorious death. Currently it's still in an early stage in terms of features and polish, yet it's so good that I've been no-lifing it since I got it. The core system/feature base is very engaging. And it has a ton of depth in a space that is frankly underexplored and not often pursued by devs due to the sheer scope of what's required to do it well. I'm surprised by how well it's done so far, so I'll continue playing and I'm looking forward to where it will go from here. Also, the developer is incredibly active and very responsive to feedback, releasing patch after patch, iterating on those systems at a pace I can't help but be impressed by. I can't imagine the potential of this game if development keeps up for the next few years. It's the type of game you just throw 1000 hours in without noticing, with all sorts of layers to explore and ways of playing it. Highly recommend giving at least the demo a try to see what it's like. You can pretty quickly appreciate if the game is for you or not, but after 50 hours you start appreciating how good the foundation really is :) Enjoy!

很有潜力的游戏，希望尽快全汉化。

Tihs is my Favorite game. If you like tower climb anime or LitRPG this is required. Not an optional quest.

Football manager meets Guild Manager with permadeath. If you like Pick Me Up and are looking for a game that can scratch the itch, this is it. Fair warning, it's a spreadsheet game that makes heavy use of AI--but it's also relatively unique in this niche. I've been scouring for a game like this for a while, this is just about the only example of it I've seen. Many other guild managers require you to still play as the adventurers in your guild, either in turn-based play or real time strategy--This is a pure manager, and that's what I love about it. The basics of the game are you're a guild manager trying to descend 100 floors of a tower to stop some cosmic threat. You assemble your guild, divide adventurers up into parties, quest, do raids, and generally try to find your way to the bottom of this massive underground tower. There's a few systems that separate this from a traditional party/guild manager in fun ways--Biggest of which is a reliance on party synergy. Every character is born under a zodiac sign, and those signs heavily influence which party members will work well together and which won't. This means building your strongest party is not as simple as just "stick your highest OVR adventurers together" as they may not mesh well. The focus on synergy and proper party composition is so well done that I've seen a party full of weaker C/B tier adventurers be stronger and more effective than a team filled with A-class adventurers, purely based on zodiac harmony and class synergy. Similarly, the diversity of class choices means there's a lot of different puzzle pieces that can fit together in their own ways. At first, the number of classes available was a little daunting. A part of me thinks it'd be better (both for the longevity of the game and for initial player familiarity) to limit the visible classes at start and slowly reveal them over the course of a campaign (either as they become available or encountered) to preserve the mystery surrounding them and limit the information overload you initially face for academy mode, but I digress. The game is also very complicated, lots of different interlocking systems, a full materials market simulator, plenty of different levers to pull and buttons to press to adjust the direction of your guild. Finally, I do think on base difficulty the game is a little *too* easy. I never really stopped inbetween floors, I kinda blitzed from 0-63 in one go, took a training arc montage where I went and resolved my tower team's ambitions and completed their proving (every adventurer has a personalized quest when they spawn and when they complete that quest they can either earn a title or change classes. Neat!), and then came back and finished the rest of the tower. Took me about 15 in-game years, which is a lot less than the initial 1,000 I thought I was setting myself up for--or something in that ball park. Good news, you can adjust the difficulty to some pretty insane levels, so I think I'll try another run on hell difficulty to see just how rough it actually gets. But I do wish there was more of an aggressive curve. The slope of tower floor difficulty seemed pretty linear. Finally, a point for the dev. Maybe like fifteen, twenty, tbh 100 points for the dev perfect score. Unbelievably responsive. Over the past week of my initial campaign I'd encountered (frankly, in the grand scheme of the game) minor annoyances. So, being a conscientious player, I communicated my grievances to the dev. No party selector for the CCL championship? In the patch notes next day. No way to sort by zodiac for party chemistry? Added two days later. Weird logic I reported in the CCL championship last night? Patched this evening. Every time I've gone to the dev (three separate occasions now) they've responded, been enthusiastic about my input, and implemented a fix within 48 hours. How nuts is that? Definitely worth your $9 even if only to support a frankly incredible dev who's clearly passionate about what they're building, but all in all an incredible new carving out of the "football manager" category of games that I pray will be more heavily explored in the future.

With Football Manager releasing a dud after a dud it's time for change. Gargadusa's Tower is a breath of fresh air for a spreadsheet loving gamer with fantasy themes that cater to my usual motivation of building a well-oiled machine out of low tier parts. The game let's you improve your Squad, Staff and Facilities like no other game with incremental gains everywhere. Game is being actively developed, multiplayer beta already in the game I'm constantly staring at screens and optimizing. The deeper you delve into it's system the more rewarding the game gets and the 'One more Turn' is a real issue :D I've obviously played the game only for a while at the time of writing and after the 1st year I've not experienced a real setback yet which is surely yet to come. But it feels like any setback in this game just presents another opportunity to dive into it's systems so I'm all for it. The game runs perfectly and simulates next turns very quickly.

Man, I rarely post reviews, but this game has the potential to be a fantasy manager dream. Even now in this early beta version you can easily get hours of play time. For transparency, I've cleared floor 10, my 6 party group OVR is showing 150, so I will continue to dig. I've barely touched the crafting or trading systems, and they already seem to have a lot to play with. The faction correspondence seems repetitive but it's so early who cares. Just wanted to share this review to say SUPPORT THIS GAME AND CREATOR!!! LET HIM COOK! BUY AND PLAY NOW!

Wow I never thought I would love this game so much. I just got stuck in it for about 6 hours. I don't like tutorials. My favorite part of games is figuring them out. This let me poke around and it's gonna let you go as fast or as slow as you can click pretty much. It's been fun to learn. I keep finding new menus and the surprise oh wow look at all these buildings I can make. Anyway lots to find and do. The person making it seems to really care and it is already fun. I mean if menus and numbers and administration seem fun to you, and don't forget it's got lots of numbers going up and down (hopefully up mostly). The UI isn't perfect but it's not bad and they give a lot of access to the way it looks which is a plus. Anyway I've really enjoyed this.