Tomb of Tyrants

A nice combination of a match-4 mechanic fueling an overall tiny tower strategy game. I like the mechanics and overall idea, but the design is focused on pushing players to grind long sessions with little return as well as diminishing returns. This means the incentive to play for further unlocks and carryover of your strongest soldiers drops drastically with every play-through. There is a limit of buildable floors with static floors being the starting floor and a hero camping floor for every 5th floor. Unfortunately, each floor is only supplied with 2 troops and there is no way to build more troops or change the choice of floors and troops after they are built, and herein lies the main problem: the game keeps spamming high level heroes (lv 10) which will always overrun your tower and since you have 1 less soldier per floor, you are set up to be spread thin and needing to micromanage and move troops here and there to address enemy swarms. At the same time, you have to worry about resource management via the match-4 and really only have the unlocked item buffs at your disposal to shore up your weakling troops, since you can only carry over a few strongest troops per play-through. So, although the game is very cleverly built and merges two very cool mechanics together, the math doesn't add up and players are punished each session with these limitations. Even with 86 unlockable floor plans, there is a balance issue where the rate of enemy spawns exceed your dispatch rate so swarms of enemies end up reaching the lowest level. After scanning Steam community, it looks like the game was specifically designed this way to encourage online leaderboard play. The possible buildable number of levels seems to be unlimited as long as you have the patience to grind 4- 6 hours per play-through after unlocking better floors and troops... o_O This game is designed for long-term play and grinding unlocks. Each of my sessions usually last 2 hours. This game is for you if you love unlocking things and enjoy match-4 mechanics with some troop management on the side and are not easily discouraged by difficult AI. Summary: Tyrants are always set up to fail regardless of previous tyrant's performance.

Maybe I'm just garbage but I tried to get into it a few times and didn't seem to make any progress and just got frustrated every time. It looks like it should be fun and has plenty of charm, but you might want to spare yourself the frustration of trying to figure it out and get anywhere.

strange and a bit convoluted, but a also bit addictive match-three-or-more tower defence. decent time killer. 5.5/10

Mixed Good puzzle game with a classic style. Gameplay normal. Ugly UI, cluttered and overstimulating. Overlapping text everywhere. Verdict: Sure, why not get it on sale?

This is a cool take on the traditional "match 3" (or match 4 in this case) style of game. Something like Puzzle Quest meets Rogue Legacy. It's held my interest for a while now - lots of replayability as your dungeon gets a little better and more options start to unlock with each play. The approach to unlocks is non-linear so you're kinda free to just do things your own way.

It's a nice match 4 type game with roguelite elements. the way the pieces move is original. if you enjoy puzzle games you'll enjoy this... WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY ?