Tower Climb

Tower Climb is a one trick pony that does its only trick quite well. The premise of the game is very simple: get on top of the tower, by running and jumping. No power ups, no lifebar; one hit and you're out. The game has 45 stages that get progressively harder, sometimes adding some new mechanics to spice things up: falling platforms, switches to activate moving platforms, floating bombs etc... The level design is pretty good. It's pretty easy to understand what you should do, but can be challenging to pull it off. Now, it's time for the game's issues: The dragon's hitbox is deceptively weird, particularly on the head. It's way bigger than you'd expect, leading to frustrating resets because it gets hit when it shouldn't Some of the later stages suffer from obstacle overload. The path you have to take is still pretty easy to spot, but the massive amount of random bombs and boulders forces the player to wait for said rocks or moving platforms a bit too much, and waiting isn't fun nor challenging. The music is just background noise and gets irritating really fast. It loops in around 20 seconds and sounds just plain bad. The graphics are extremely simple and the title screen is horrendous to look at. The game has its own ranking systems: stars. You obtain stars (max 3 per stage) by collecting chili peppers in the stages and then completing them. The issue is that said stars don't grant you anything if you collect them all. On the same note is the lack of Steam achievements and/or cards. No satisfacion for beating or 100%ing the game. The game doesn't even acknowledge it. It just cuts to the main menu and that's it. Overall, this game was worth the 0,72 $ I paid for it, and it is fun. It could be a very good game but it has still major issues. TL;DR 6.5/10