The Perfect Tower II

has microtransactions

Good thing this game is free, because its mechanics are poorly documented and poorly explained. It's a requirement to join their Discord to get any real explanations from the community on most of the game's features and mechanics. Add to that, its "puzzles" are referenced only on its poorly maintained community wiki, not in-game. You'll find them only accidentally by stumbling upon them, unless you happen to get help from someone in the community. But good luck there, as many of the people in the know act as gatekeepers to these puzzles, refusing to provide much in the way of help apart from vague hints. Woe unto you if you happen to make a forum post talking about these secrets, as you'll get a number of people informing you that you're violating some sort of covenant that you automatically joined merely by playing the game.

this game sucks

Wiki/guide/import-slop. Gameplay distills out to webpages and discord, worse and worse the later you get.

you will get addicted

The first half of the game is pretty fun. You upgrade your tower, unlock different modules, and put together different loadouts to kill as many enemies as possible. However after a while, the progression slows down significantly, to the point where either you have to rely heavily on idle rewards to progress, or the intended way of progression is so vague that no matter what you try, progress seems impossible. If the in-game tutorial was updated to specify exactly how to progress, then i would definitely recommend it whether or not the intended progression was as tedious as it seems. However, with the state its in, the tutorial is not enough to help in any meaningful way, especially past era 1.

Me like big number. Big number good. Praise the almighty Cubos!