Fit check
Is Tower of Time worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- RPG players who want party-based combat built around pausing and positioning
- Tactical players who enjoy adjusting difficulty and solving demanding encounters
- Players seeking a long fantasy campaign with lore, loot, and character development
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a relaxed RPG may find the highest difficulty demanding and combat requires tactical planning.
- Players wanting a short, purely action-focused experience may not fit the campaign's stated 50-plus hours and story content.
- Players who prefer fixed character builds may not want its classes, skill trees, equipment choices, and party alignment system.
- Players seeking a conventional turn-based combat system may not prefer its real-time battles.
Our take on Tower of Time
Rather than separating planning into turns, the game places tactical decisions inside real-time encounters that can be paused or slowed. Its battles are structured as positioning and timing puzzles, while RPGlite reduces story content for a faster combat-focused format.
What is Tower of Time?
Tower of Time is a story-driven dungeon-crawling RPG set in a world where technology and magic have damaging consequences.
Players guide a party of champions through handcrafted levels while uncovering history through cinematics, lore books, and scattered information. Battles run in real time but can be paused or slowed, allowing positioning, spell use, and responses to enemy tactics. The game includes seven character classes, skill enhancement trees, equipment, crafting, enchanting, gravity manipulation, and an upgradeable city. Its 150 enemies and 50 bosses use varied skills and tactics. Five difficulty levels, RPGlite, Permadeath, combat challenges, and leaderboard modes provide alternate ways to play.
How Tower of Time plays
- 01Paused Real-Time Battles
- Combat can be slowed or stopped while the party is repositioned and abilities are selected.
- 02Seven Character Classes
- Each class has distinct strengths and weaknesses for party-building decisions.
- 03Layered Skill Growth
- Characters use two exclusive enhancement paths alongside many skill development options.
- 04Gravity-Based Abilities
- Combat skills can launch characters across distances, scatter enemies, or pull them together.
- 05Extensive Equipment System
- The game includes loot, crafting, enchanting, and legendary items.
- 06Enemy Variety
- The campaign includes 150 enemies and 50 bosses with different skills and tactics.
- 07Alternate Play Modes
- RPGlite reduces story content, while Permadeath adds permanent failure and score-based leaderboards.
Tower of Time compared to similar games
Tower of Time combines party-based RPG progression with real-time battles that can be paused or slowed, while Back to the Dawn presents a prison-escape RPG centered on survival, investigation, and escape. Shogun Showdown uses turn-based combat, attack tiles, deck-building, and roguelike progression rather than Tower of Time's real-time party tactics. Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew focuses on real-time stealth strategy in a pirate setting.
Tower of Time: platforms & release
Is Tower of Time worth it?
It is worth it if: RPG players who want party-based combat built around pausing and positioning. Skip it if: players seeking a relaxed RPG may find the highest difficulty demanding and combat requires tactical planning.
Where can I download Tower of Time?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Tower of Time's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Tower of Time on?
Windows and Linux.
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