Fit check
Is Tempest Tower worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Tower-defense players who want direct movement and combat alongside base construction
- Strategy players who enjoy testing different equipment, upgrades, and item combinations
- Action players who prefer combat decisions combined with resource management
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a passive tower-defense format without controlling a character during battles
- Players who prefer a fixed defensive setup rather than repeated experimentation with layouts, loadouts, and tactics
- Players looking for a cooperative tower-defense RPG with loot, leveling, pets, and character customization
Our take on Tempest Tower
Rather than keeping the player behind a defensive line, Tempest Tower places movement, direct fighting, and rescue tasks inside the tower-defense loop. Its alternating construction and action phases replace a continuous placement structure with separate planning and combat windows.
What is Tempest Tower?
Tempest Tower combines tower defense with platforming movement and direct combat.
During Build Phases, players explore the map and construct a base; during Action Phases, they battle Creeper hordes while collecting resources and guiding local critters to safety. Defenses include ranged Bug Blasters, traps, trampolines, and shield bubbles that reflect damage. Flora provides additional tools, including explosive Bomb-Berries, luring Bait Bulbs, and Glide Leaves for crossing chasms. Before each level, players customize a loadout, choose contraptions and upgrades, and create item combinations. Difficulty modifiers and level challenges provide additional ways to play, while repeated attempts refine defensive layouts, economic choices, and combat decisions.
How Tempest Tower plays
- 01Alternating Phases
- Construction and combat take place in separate Build and Action Phases.
- 02Direct Combat
- Players personally move through levels, fight Creepers, trigger traps, and select which battles to engage.
- 03Flora Tools
- Bomb-Berries, Bait Bulbs, and Glide Leaves provide area damage, enemy luring, and traversal options.
- 04Loadout Customization
- Each level begins with choices for equipment, contraptions, and upgrades.
- 05Difficulty Options
- Difficulty modifiers and level challenges offer additional variations for playing through the levels.
Tempest Tower compared to similar games
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened combines cooperative action RPG and tower defense with loot, leveling, pets, and character customization, while Tempest Tower centers on alternating build and action phases, resource collection, and experimentation with contraptions and flora. Anomaly: Warzone Earth also reverses the usual tower-defense perspective, but its description focuses on saving Earth from an alien assault, whereas Tempest Tower combines base construction with platforming movement, direct combat, and critter rescue.
Tempest Tower: platforms & release
Is Tempest Tower worth it?
It is worth it if: tower-defense players who want direct movement and combat alongside base construction. Skip it if: players seeking a passive tower-defense format without controlling a character during battles.
Where can I download Tempest Tower?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Tempest Tower's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Tempest Tower on?
Windows only.
