Tower Networking Inc.

This is rough [b]in it's current state.[/b] After 20h of mostly replaying the tutorials and the first few days, I still have no idea how they actually expect you to get past like 3 floors and day 5 without having a utter dumpster fire of a network. Nothing is explained to the point that you can use it decently, let alone enough to actually make something efficient. There are a few strange decisions that spit straight in the face of how a real system works so if you come into this with IRL knowledge you almost have a disadvantage. The fact you have to manage routing tables manually, with no way to automate it like real switches do, is there just to have a tedious mechanic is insane. Also it's crazy how useful and useless DHCP is (in this game) at the same time. When you first look into it, you think it's going to save you a TON of time configuring stuff, but by the time you get it all set up, and troubleshooted, and make sure everything is assigned correctly, it probably hasn't saved you NEAR as much as you thought it would and it still doesn't help with the biggest time sink of routing table BS. They really need to beef up the tutorials and wiki if they want players to have a good time. Finally, I swear some things just don't work randomly. I had a consumer that couldn't connect to a server, but I was connected to the same switch they were and could see it fine. Checked my routing, didn't have any firewalls yet, no other consumers had issues reaching that server, even across floors. At this point if this was IRL, I would be telling them it was something wrong with their computer.

they made the perfect game

Exactly what hell looks like for a network admin👍

packet tracer if it was awesome. aesthetically fantastic. stressful.

This game is so good now. I was playing with all the new features (some older), and I so happy. I figured out how to use the illusion browser to play music on youtube so I played papers please death theme extended on loop, while I was realizing how the new wiring items worked. All the possibilities kept coming to me as I realize now game changing these items are. I might even buy a trolley just to use them more often. I might do a lot of things. Overall this update, this game, is amazing.

Great!.. Yet, how do I put it... It´s like "My Summer Car" in iptables, routing, "firewalling" and building network structure. It will put you in a Hospice even if you know the stuff, AND, if you don´t read at least the router/routing wiki info in game word by word, 10 times, 20 if needed until you get your bearings and get comfortable routing ports and protocols, even if you very experienced in networking, I mean it, the routing info OF THIS GAME is the core golden info that need to be known, in this game... Even if lacking a lot to be written and designed in the game (as I write 2026/4/20), Dev did a great job there in the router section, and you´ll see it, again, each word there count, read again until you can recite that from start to end. - ~Oh, But ooh I´m a very experienced, I know a lot and everything about, I´m IT, networking operator, builder, engineer, computer science PhD, super mega, gigatera ultrablaster~... SHUUSH, you are nothing, know nothing in this game, go read the router section til u get it... if, you don´t wanna be taken running naked around the streets. Enjoy, if you do, get some reserve keyboards aside, be advised !.. Or forget it and run.

I am too stupid for this game

Great game for learning mock-up networking concepts. Would recommend supporting this game if you are interested.