Gargadusa's Tower

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

Awesome game concept, awesome dev. Feels like an early access and still a work in progress but well worth the price for what it currently includes. Game is made by one guy who is very active on the discord. I've made a post with a few Qol things and literally woke up the next day to 4 of them added in the patch. Even if it took a week I'd still be impressed, it's a little insane sometimes. I've heard some complaints about AI generated images, but it isn't a problem for me. A lot of them are more placeholder hero portraits for the hundreds of different heros that show up. The Dev is really open with it's use and makes an effort to add in some hand drawn art each patch. Very much a labour of love and not slopped together AI garbage. The difficulty of a default playthrough is pretty easy almost relaxing but still fun. Theres a ton of systems but you aren't punished for not intereacting with them and can explore and use them at your own leissure. There are a variety of sliders to customize difficulty to match your preferences once you're more comfortable with the game. On higher difficulty settings you'll find your self manipulating the material stock market to squeeze out a little extra cash to keep your guild a float. Theres also an academy only mode (no recruiting/trades only graduates from your guilds school) and a New Game+ mode where you bring one party from your last save pick a fun perk on them and start fresh. Not a game for everyone but if you try the demo and it scratches the itch you didn't know you had. Theres a way better version for a fair price that is getting better and better at a such a quick rate you'd swear someone used two fingers from a monkey paw on it.

First review I've ever written on Steam for 15 years on the platform — with 283 of them on this page, I figure the dev might actually see it. Management games, sci-fi/fantasy books, sports. This hits all three, and I've been hooked since I found it via SteamDB. I stepped away for two or three weeks to plan a fresh run and came back stunned by how much had changed. The pace of updates is genuinely encouraging. So: you're making this for someone, and that someone is me. Simple idea, brilliantly cool — the kind of thing you'd fantasize about as a kid. Hope you get the sales you deserve, for the game and the book. Great work.

GUD GAEM

This game basically has you as the HR department for a guild where your employees are sword-wielding adventurers who dungeon/tower dive for a paycheck. Tower of Gargadusa is the simulator you didn't know you needed. You're not the chosen one. You're not even in the tower. You're the person behind the people who go into the tower. Recruiting new members, managing their goals and mood swings, running guild operations, and playing logistics manager as you send parties out on quests, contracts, and raids to dive deeper into the Tower of Gargadusa itself. Less "hero's journey," more "middle management with a body count." And it has sucked out hundred+ of my time so far over a week. The first thing to notice is that someone clearly cared about this game. Each of the core system such as recruitment, gearing, contracts, tower runs feels like it was built with a plan, thought out and not just bolted on. It's the kind of depth where you start a session to "just check on my roster real quick" and resurface three hours later having personally micromanaged the retirement plan of a 39 year old underachieving archer. The developer is also active on Discord actually reading feedback, there's a real chance bugs gets fixed... quickly. Guild members aren't just stat blocks. They have personal ambitions/goals that drive their ascension, development and growth, which is a great idea on paper. In practice, some of these goals are... let's say ambitiously calibrated. Some feel genuinely unclear how to progress, and a few feel borderline impossible, though maybe that might just be a case of "skill issue, please consult Discord." In one of my longest playthroughs, the moment I caught myself laughing out loud in the middle of the night, was discovering that roughly 30% of my adventurers had a personal goal to serve as Guild Commander for one full year. My guild had 80 members. That's about 24 people who all wanted a turn in the big chair to achieve their ascended class. Assuming one commander per year, the 24th adventurer in line would be finishing their tenure at an age where they would be less "guild commander" more "guild pensioner." He was going to age out of the guild before he ever got to sit down. And for reasons I cannot explain, this ambition was wildly overrepresented among my priests. My healers, the most nurturing, support class in the roster, were secretly a guild's worth of frustrated middle managers waiting for their shot at the throne. A silent coup, one prayer at a time. The devs have since patched this so the goal is far more attainable — which is both a relief for the other non-healer adventurers' mental health. The Verdict Tower of Gargadusa is a guild management game with real depth: deep systems, a dev that's actually listening, and enough emergent absurdity to keep you entertained even when the tooltips fail you. The goal system needs some clearer signposting. Currently in early access, it swings between "satisfying long-term project" and "riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a priest's midlife crisis." But when a management sim's bug reports are this funny, you know the foundation underneath is something special. Recommended for: People who enjoy spreadsheets with emotional stakes, anyone who's ever wanted to fire a healer for political ambition, and fans of games where the depth is a feature, not a wall. Score: 8/10 — docked two points because my priests unionized.

It's very obviously made with AI assistance but that just means it helps the creator's idea come to life more easily.T his is inherently a menu clicker and manager which AI coders are great for. Right up my alley thematically, and I love management games. This scratches that itch. Looking forward to visual updates and to have the skill levels and ratings have more meaning than just an OVR-rating. Multiplayer functionality is kinda awesome. Me and my buds can play on the same savegame, and take our turns withing 24hrs or our commander makes it for us. This makes for cool long-horizon games where the guild can kinda grow over time. Many nice features in both the gameplay-, multiplayer- and UX-department.

I've beaten the tower multiple times across different playthroughs. I mostly stick to the starting or base difficulty and have carried some guilds into NG+. It's a lot of fun and can be very satisfying, but it won't be for everyone. It's very frequently and consistently updated with many great changes and additions. As a result, experiences may vary over time. You play as the guild master who conducts business from the guild hall. You recruit adventurers, staff, and gatherers and build the guild from just a stack of gold. You assign adventurers to parties and send them on quests or raids. You maintain relations with other guilds and different factions. You build and upgrade parts of the guild to unlock or improve different aspects of the guild. There are many different systems that all connect in different ways, and it will take time to learn them. You may lose party members or fail quests, or you may not. You may lose some adventurers to other guilds, or you may not. You may want to restart your first few guilds after a year or two once you start to understand the systems more, since the better you run the guild early, the better the guild can be later. It all depends on how you play and what you do, but it's entirely your choice. I highly recommend trying the demo at the very least, or buying the game at its current price of $8.99. I easily see myself playing this game for hundreds of hours more--especially if the game is updated and maintained. I would be happy to purchase DLC even if it's just to support development. It's one of my favorite games, but I have to be in the right mood to play it since it requires quite a bit of time, patience, focus, and effort. It's a 9/10 game for me as far as strategy and management games go.

This game is remarkable!