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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 83 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 28 out of 83
  2. Negative: 50 out of 83

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  1. Aug 19, 2022
    4
    - collision and hitbox bug
    - poor game optimization
    - a ridiculous cap system that blocks progress all the time

    - nice story ,gameplay and gacha system
  2. Aug 19, 2022
    1
    This game P2W, broken balance in PVP, PING, there are too many rewards for whales, including modes like Wormhole, chat does not work on many servers, GACHA PERSONALLY SCUM ME, I have opened 4 areas for 100, although there was everything on the beta, by the way, they didn't even give awards for the beta as a keepsake.
  3. Aug 21, 2022
    3
    The gameplay is extremely inhibiting, bringing a lot of relics into the game. Many useless relics. Each time you use it, you have to go to the menu to change the relic. The boss is ridiculously strong. If you don't have a ranged weapon, you will never be able to defeat boss ruin D-03, because that boss is never on the ground. The monster's shield is also ridiculously strong. Every time aThe gameplay is extremely inhibiting, bringing a lot of relics into the game. Many useless relics. Each time you use it, you have to go to the menu to change the relic. The boss is ridiculously strong. If you don't have a ranged weapon, you will never be able to defeat boss ruin D-03, because that boss is never on the ground. The monster's shield is also ridiculously strong. Every time a monster uses a combo skill, you can't dodge. There are many high stone walls with no place to rest, while the character's stamina is extremely low. Elemental effects on monsters are less than monsters inflicted on the character. The character's resistance has no effect. Boring story. Simulacra's voice has only a few lines. Overall, this game is just fun to play, but the game is not good. Expand
  4. Aug 16, 2022
    3
    It's not a trash game but definitely can't be a good game.
    First of all, character customization is really good, you can create your own unique character and it does really good looking. Combat, not really creative combat style and mechanic, but it make a pretty good on the PvE. Gacha system is very generous. And that's all.
    Now to the down side. -A LOT OF BUGS: I have to say I could
    It's not a trash game but definitely can't be a good game.
    First of all, character customization is really good, you can create your own unique character and it does really good looking. Combat, not really creative combat style and mechanic, but it make a pretty good on the PvE. Gacha system is very generous. And that's all.
    Now to the down side.
    -A LOT OF BUGS: I have to say I could saw bugs every where I been through like climbing, swimming, running,.... even while fighting.
    -Boring story: I didn't really expect story from a MMO game but to be clear it's worst than I thought.
    -Character's Voice, except the main character everyone else sound really cringe to me in english, to be honest, even the talking and emotion motion didn't have a miner change when character is getting emotional changes.
    -Map: Don't have too much empty space, but quite many place is too hard to reach with full of bugs gaming experience.
    -Boss: good mechanic and design, combat? super lag with too many player
    -control setting: 0/10 I have to reset my setting every 20', it's about 40 times or something. don't support controller, you still have to use mouse with the controller if you want to play
    PS: just spent 3 hour on the game to understand what I said
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  5. Aug 14, 2022
    2
    Its a standard predatory Gacha game, they seemingly think that they can use the MMO tag but this game is NOT an MMO by any stretch of the meaning, for some reason they seem to think that they can timegate the maximum level, as it currently stands it will be 88 days from release before anyone can hit max level, not because its a grind but literally because they will not unlock the abilityIts a standard predatory Gacha game, they seemingly think that they can use the MMO tag but this game is NOT an MMO by any stretch of the meaning, for some reason they seem to think that they can timegate the maximum level, as it currently stands it will be 88 days from release before anyone can hit max level, not because its a grind but literally because they will not unlock the ability to reach that level before 88 days have elapsed

    The voice acting is ok for the most part but you can clearly spot the people who were just paid to read the lines rather than the people who put some actual effort in to it

    Combat is a basic affair of spamming left click to basic attack with a timed dodge to slow down time with a generic active skill for each weapon, trying to raise the quality of any of the SSR weapons is basically impossible without spending literal years rolling or by inserting your credit card

    The map, while expansive, is actually fairly devoid of any meaningful content, the same copy and paste encounters litter the map with the occasional sprinkle of unique world boss encounters

    For the most part this is a generic game with a fairly basic story designed entirely to nickle and dime players, but thats fairly par for the course for gacha games but we kind of need to stop accepting this kind of BS from Tencent and Perfect world who are pulling the strings on this one
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  6. Aug 23, 2022
    2
    NIce Anime MMO that requires a lot of polishing for this moment. Story is not best even for MMO, graphics are Okish, not good in artistic realization and very bad in technical quality, not really the best, what I was expecting - Exploration - is very simple, there are no artistic points of interests, but a lot of points of your minimap, you just move by that markers and "explore", if youNIce Anime MMO that requires a lot of polishing for this moment. Story is not best even for MMO, graphics are Okish, not good in artistic realization and very bad in technical quality, not really the best, what I was expecting - Exploration - is very simple, there are no artistic points of interests, but a lot of points of your minimap, you just move by that markers and "explore", if you can call it exploration at all, not many interesting environmental points of interest, most of environments are made simply to fill empty space and that few points of interest that game have are be able to reach by the "main quest", so there is no exploration in actual meaning of this mechanics in games, later on game is just typical MMO.
    Game have huge problems with streaming engine, also Cheater problem is still active, they start banning accounts that cheat, but people are able to play even P2P games after buns, so ban in F2P game is not really a solution, especially when game want to force you PvP, combat feels very clunky and janky, world building is very simple, artistically game have big problems with sounds and visuals, environmental sounds are very simple even for a mobile game, step sounds sometimes make weird noises for surface you step on, music is very simple, tbh some 2D slashers have much better music, visually game is simple, have some attractive places and that are all places where you will be moving by quests, but out of that the world is just simple, I would like combat if not the janky feeling of it, some skills are counter intuitive, Gacha system in MMO make things bad, game already have a huge balance problems and getting weapons from Gacha making it even worse.

    But, despite of this, still can say, that if you love typical Anime MMO games and you are tired from other existing MMOs, then ToF can be a good choice to relax for some time, but if you are willing to find deep, artistically interesting and polished MMO, then better avoid it, also if you are addictive person and have problems with gambling addiction, then better stay away.
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  7. Sep 18, 2022
    1
    Bad mechanics, stolen assets, poor gameplay, repetitive and gacha is one of the worst I've seen alongside Saint Seiya Awakening and Genshin Impact.
    Not recommended nor fun.
  8. Sep 15, 2022
    0
    Mediocre gameplay, server runing in a potato, the settings keep reseting alone, you upgrade your things to do the same % of damage on all enemies, good game.
  9. Aug 19, 2022
    0
    I can’t even play the game on pc after a week, bsod “watchdog violation”plagued me from the very beginning and I had to download an emulator just to try it.
  10. Aug 11, 2022
    0
    All you hear on the net is that this game is the "Genshin Killer".
    objectively, in order to become a "killer" you have to do at least everything much better than Genshin's.
    For 5-7 hours I just couldn't try out the game, ok, after a couple of hours I did go in and yeeeeeeeep ..... It's still the same unplayable piece of **** from the Chinese CBT and OBT. I got the impression that they
    All you hear on the net is that this game is the "Genshin Killer".
    objectively, in order to become a "killer" you have to do at least everything much better than Genshin's.
    For 5-7 hours I just couldn't try out the game, ok, after a couple of hours I did go in and yeeeeeeeep ..... It's still the same unplayable piece of **** from the Chinese CBT and OBT.
    I got the impression that they weren't working on the game, they had the goal of releasing the game and hooking up monetization. Well here's how you can explain the developers actions, nothing has changed since the closed CBT China, all the same bugs that were on the closed beta test. absolutely nothing has changed.

    Bugs, glitches in the interface, with tasks.
    This is just the flowers. How can you explain the fact that after the exit, the progress is just not saved? (This same problem still exists in the Chinese version of the game, no one for a year since the release has not fixed it).
    If we consider this project as a purely mobile wanker, it is quite.
    If tencent took over the game, as they say: prepare the money, guys. roughly speaking in the game you can buy anything, some packs, improved and ordinary Battlepasses, twists, currency, the **** is not there. The donate store is done better than the whole game,
    Time gates - the problem with this game, what kind of MMO, where you can go to dunge 3 times a day, **** they added the resin from Genshin, and dunge you will farm 3 times a day. The bottom line is obvious, the game is designed to extract as much money from players as possible, mediocrity
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  11. Aug 11, 2022
    2
    Hard to target enemies, too many bugs. Sometimes attack not responding. Everything are bad except can customize main characters!!!!
  12. Aug 12, 2022
    0
    character animations were so bad for a game. if you want to play an MMO, you should play another MMO.
  13. Aug 12, 2022
    1
    horrible. the game was full of bugs and errors, character animations were so bad for a game made in 2022.
  14. Aug 11, 2022
    4
    10 hours in and Im done with this already. Firstly the game is really rushed, a shocker these days I know but amount of bugs are absolutely insane. So far I have encountered tons of broken animations, falling through the ground, clipping into objects and getting stuck, touching random items and being teleported halfway across the map, text to speech not working, dialogue not completely10 hours in and Im done with this already. Firstly the game is really rushed, a shocker these days I know but amount of bugs are absolutely insane. So far I have encountered tons of broken animations, falling through the ground, clipping into objects and getting stuck, touching random items and being teleported halfway across the map, text to speech not working, dialogue not completely translating, player camera gets stuck, enemies have more A than I. On top of that, the combat of this game is floaty nothing has a sense of weight and makes fighting a bit jarring. The story is also some of the weakest writing I have ever witnessed, I thought black desert online’s story was bad, ToF is another level. Overall this is not a good first impression considering the hype this game was generating. Expand
  15. Aug 15, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. "Passion project dreadfully developed"

    Tower of Fantasy is an MMORPG game that emphasize its possesion of "high skill ceiling" combat mechanics and world building, although they did prove that two points on paper, some things is just not what it seems to be

    On the more general aspect of the game, ToF is really generous on distributing valuable currency and materials that allows people to progress further without spending money, it implements world bosses as something that players has to take down together at specific places, and the combat mechanics works as the game designer probably intends it to be, each battle feels fresh due to the sheer amount of moveset that can be combined, as a casual MMORPG player, you'll probably enjoy playing this game over "the other game", but not for those that seeks the story, the overall quality of the game itself is really subpar, choppy animations, poor cinematic direction and storywriting that somehow makes "the other game" **** storywriting looks good

    The direction this game is heading to is rather bleak, to put simply, the game fails to hype up its initial release on the first week, i dont feel the excitement while waiting for new story chapters to be unlocked, while exploration does feel exciting at first, it gets redundant really quick due to poor story components that would complement the exploration for the zone

    Take for example the world bosses, these are supposed to be a feature that holds a certain kind of lore and can be expanded into some sorta side quest, yet even on a couple of days the game released, players already raids the world boss on the second-last zone thanks to level auto-balancing, so not only the story is poorly written and presented, the exploration itself is disattatched from the story

    The game feels like something that one would play for a week or two then gets abandoned afterwards, it sacrifices so much just to build a combat system that is above average at best, even the kind gesture the global release devs give by granting numerous rewards feels like a way to compensate the flaws

    Regarding to pvp, i cant emphasize further on how terribly unbalanced pvp is, unlike other MMOs that usually give a certain nerf on characters for pvp use, the game instead puts every character on their prime state, meaning that characters that is conceptually strong for pvp dominates even further, nemesis is a really strong healer that also deals damage and interruption, samir is a dps that has infinite range VIA charged attack, and cocoritter basically turns you immortal and uninterruptable, mix that three units in your team and you simply just win the match by kiting your enemy in the most annoying way possible
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  16. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    Full of bugs and lags. Dull story. "Balanced" PvP (as ingame title sad) is absolutly disbalanced, your win depends only on weapon you got from gatcha.
    Very first event in game ruined game completely - absolutely disappointing. You can only get event outfit buying Dark Crystals with real money and it costs a lot!
  17. Aug 18, 2022
    0
    poor imitation genshin.
    No fun whatsoever.
    There are too many bugs.
    Not recommended to play.
  18. Aug 23, 2022
    0
    -Bad Story
    -Bad Animations
    -Too much time gating
    -Bad "Events"
    -Tower Of Bug
    -No Targeting system
    -Bad Optimization
    -Pvp Hackers
    -Stupid AI
  19. Aug 12, 2022
    0
    This game is literally unplayable. I wanted to join my friends and family on the server we chose and agreed on. Unfortunately this server is overwhelmed and they can't access their data anymore. On my side, I couldn't join the server at least once. This game is basically a Picrew 3D to me.
    It's a shame for a so-called MMO to have such bad servers and ignore completely the community
    This game is literally unplayable. I wanted to join my friends and family on the server we chose and agreed on. Unfortunately this server is overwhelmed and they can't access their data anymore. On my side, I couldn't join the server at least once. This game is basically a Picrew 3D to me.
    It's a shame for a so-called MMO to have such bad servers and ignore completely the community feedback.
    I'm not fond of Genshin, but avoid this game at all cost, it's even worse.
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  20. Aug 12, 2022
    0
    Too many bugs. Game is inoperable, also, the game is very similar to Genshin Impact, which in turn is a plagiarism of The legend of Zelda Breath of the wild. Terrible game
  21. Aug 13, 2022
    0
    Story - Laughable, at best.
    Music - Generic, limited, overall better experience to turn music off.
    Voice Over - Horrific. Unless you are naive and think japanese sounds good just because its japanese. Graphics - Not only is it a mobile port, it looks like it. Gacha System - Reminds me of every gacha game that didnt learn its lesson. Difficulty - Hello Kitty Island Adventure. World
    Story - Laughable, at best.
    Music - Generic, limited, overall better experience to turn music off.
    Voice Over - Horrific. Unless you are naive and think japanese sounds good just because its japanese.
    Graphics - Not only is it a mobile port, it looks like it.
    Gacha System - Reminds me of every gacha game that didnt learn its lesson.
    Difficulty - Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
    World Building - Its like if Fortnite made a baby with Wildstar, but it died.
    "Content" - Oof. If you call what this is real entertainment you may need to see a doctor. Your standards are low, your attention is short, or you just fall for content creators flaming mouth garbage.

    Bug time!

    Falling through world. Mobile version crashes all the time. There seems to be no anti cheat, so people are speedhacking and teleporting people to death. Graphics pop in and out (Wont go further, the graphics are bad by mobile standards in general). Mission waypoints are jank. Map is jank.

    Out of the 100+ free MMORPG's you could play, THIS is what you consider acceptable?
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  22. Aug 28, 2022
    1
    + Great character creation system
    + Good music/voice acting
    + Decent story with cute NPCs + Shirli - 100% genshin clone - Predatory micro transactions in the realms of p2w - Too many premium currencies - Significant bugs - Annoying combat - Daily caps for content - Hackers/Botters are rampant - Censorship This is a blatant ripoff/clone of Genshin with a few broken ideas
    + Great character creation system
    + Good music/voice acting
    + Decent story with cute NPCs
    + Shirli

    - 100% genshin clone
    - Predatory micro transactions in the realms of p2w
    - Too many premium currencies
    - Significant bugs
    - Annoying combat
    - Daily caps for content
    - Hackers/Botters are rampant
    - Censorship

    This is a blatant ripoff/clone of Genshin with a few broken ideas thrown into the mix such as carrying elementals to unlock nucleus (gatcha currency). The combat is some how worse than genshin, not to mention buggy as heck in combat with mobs quite often just insta-respawning or just resetting themselves for no apparent reason.

    When I say a ripoff of Genshin, its basically the same game engine and just reskinned. Even following a robot (like with spirits in Genshin) is here, even the way you climb cliffs but somehow its just a lot more buggy and has issues all across the board.

    Lets talk combat, its annoying because its standard fair, you have your trash mobs and you have your elites and bosses, almost guaranteed bosses will have shields or elemental immunities so occasionally you just can't hurt bosses at all, requiring you to run away and change your load outs, this happens once you start acquiring new characters/weapons...oh did I mention, the gacha system is identical as well, a 10 pull will on average will give 9 rare (common and useless) weapons and one SR character or weapon.

    The gacha system is very predatory, like with Genshin - if you want to max out a weapon then be prepared to spend hundreds, if not a thousand+. There's so many different currencies in game its hard to keep track of what does what, instead of sticking to one premium currency there is about 5+. You have your multiple nucleus drops which you can get in game but it'll take a long time and you'll eventually run out, then you have gacha coins and another currencies which you can't farm making the game somewhat pay-2-win.

    The gatcha system is exactly the same as Genshin, on 9/10 10 pulls you'll get 9 (R) useless items and a basic SR weapon or character, if you are really really really lucky 0.75% chance you might get a SSR but to really have any chance to unlock these, you'll need to pay $$$$ unless its a special event that works you to the bone to unlock something.

    The character creation system isn't too bad, and probably the best aspects. The voice acting is pretty good with well known voice actors delivering good performances, the character designs of the NPCs are pretty good too, with some cute characters and good story lines which unfortunately get overshadowed by the poor mechanics of the game in general.

    I could easily post a 5000 word review, but Tower of Fantasy right now is just your typical anime style predatory Mog (it isn't an MMO at all, just like Genshin) 9/10 times you'll be playing solo until you unlock any actual multiplayer content, the game is hampered by significant bugs, poor hit detection, annoying combat mechanics and obvious pay to win cash shops.
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  23. Aug 16, 2022
    1
    While its combat can be fun, and the game is fairly pretty. The gacha is terrible, upfront it appears to be less restrictive and more lax on its rates. However further into the game you will see how predatory and exploitive the system really is. It makes Genshin look tame. This coupled with tons of game breaking bugs and exploits known about from the CH version are laughable. Not toWhile its combat can be fun, and the game is fairly pretty. The gacha is terrible, upfront it appears to be less restrictive and more lax on its rates. However further into the game you will see how predatory and exploitive the system really is. It makes Genshin look tame. This coupled with tons of game breaking bugs and exploits known about from the CH version are laughable. Not to mention the true shadyness of the company stealing assets and botting reviews. Expand
  24. Dec 30, 2022
    1
    So, after couple of months I think I can provide you with a worthwhile review.
    The game marketeted itself as a Genshin killer and it's anything but that, but made me waste my time on it so it worked I guess. (I'm back to Genshin now)
    The game has a metric ton of issues which will be hard to list but I will try. 1. This game being an "MMO" is a complete lie, it translates to "Massive
    So, after couple of months I think I can provide you with a worthwhile review.
    The game marketeted itself as a Genshin killer and it's anything but that, but made me waste my time on it so it worked I guess. (I'm back to Genshin now)

    The game has a metric ton of issues which will be hard to list but I will try.

    1. This game being an "MMO" is a complete lie, it translates to "Massive Multiplayer", each server has over 100 channels, seeing anyone in the open world is actually rare. And besides, the game has ZERO similarities with actual MMOs, You can always upgrade your equipment and skills, the "towns" in the open world are completely useless besides quests(which you run out of quickly).
    2. When 2.0 released DX12, DLSS and Ray Tracing was added, after around a week they released an "update" that forced the game back to DX11, took away Ray Tracing and introduced a memory leak when trying to use DLSS, making it impossible to benefit from it. AND IT WAS NEVER FIXED, even though people figured out that the memory leak can be fixed by replacing ONE file in the game files and the game support claims that modifying the game files can result with a ban, sooo, enjoy crap performance for no reason besides devs being completely incompetent morons.
    3. The story... Let's just ignore it, it's terrible, you don't care about any of the characters. The game shares a lot of VAs with Genshin, I wonder if that's intentional.
    4. The game has a lot of open world bosses which have billions of HP, even if you are a mega whale you can't do them solo so you need to group up. This is probably fine however, what's ironic is that the game can't handle the amount of people needed to effectively kill those bosses. I just checked and my internet is 450/40 (download/upload). Surely it's more than enough for a multiplayer game but apperantly it isn't for Tof. In the settings you can set how many people you can see on the screen, between 5 to 30. At 30 even with very good internet, the game becomes uplayable, you get stuck in place, other people next to you move by an inch every few seconds and you often end up dead when the game recovers or you decrease this setting to 5. (really immersive massive multiplayer game)
    5. Supposedly the main advantage of this game over Genshin is "end game content" so let's touch up on that. There's Bygone Phantasm, basically a never ending floor based challenge, it's fine, it rewards you with equipment upgrade materials so it helps you fuel further upgrades. Similiar to it is Wormhole, I never fully understood that but it you can get rewards weekly based on how far you're able to get. There's Void Rifts and Frontier Clash, you get 3 attempts per week, they stack and you can use all 3 at once on Saturday. Also raids you get 3 attempts per week. So to sum it up if it's not Saturday and you've done your raids all you have to do is dailies and stamina limited activities, maybe 1-2 hours of gameplay a day.
    6. My last point is this game being an online gacha: a red flag for most people. As a F2P/Dolphin you will never be able to compete, and for me it was the last straw of dropping this game, almost always being at the bottom of the damage tables because I'm not a whale was too demotivating, I don't want to play a game where I feel useless because I'm not throwing hundreds and thousands of dollars at this game.
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  25. Sep 25, 2022
    4
    полная параша, изначальная идея копирования зельды/геншина это уже провал, я считаю, что в 2022 году выпускать подобное г это недопустимо. и ладно геншин детская игра без лейтгейма, но тофка это еще и неиграбельная детская игра, в неё даже зайти бывает проблематично. оптимизации НОЛЬполная параша, изначальная идея копирования зельды/геншина это уже провал, я считаю, что в 2022 году выпускать подобное г это недопустимо. и ладно геншин детская игра без лейтгейма, но тофка это еще и неиграбельная детская игра, в неё даже зайти бывает проблематично. оптимизации НОЛЬ
  26. Jul 27, 2023
    1
    I've been playing since the release, survived all the bugs, broken pvp, endless bad luck in the local casino, lack of gameplay and poor technical support.
    And I sincerely regret not even the money, but the time spent on all this disgrace.
    This is exactly what the modern gaming market is heading towards, and it needs to be nipped in the bud.
  27. Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Leider kann ich nur ein Rating von 2 geben. Dies bezieht sich aber auf die Playstation, da die Steuerung Grotten schlecht ist. Tasten funktionieren nicht, Sachen werden ungewollt getriggert weil es die selbe taste hat, Cursor verschwindet, Map hängt fest, Bildschirm ist nicht mehr drehbar usw.
    An sich ein schönes game mit vielen Möglichkeiten, aber auf der Playsi nur mit viel Akzeptanz
    Leider kann ich nur ein Rating von 2 geben. Dies bezieht sich aber auf die Playstation, da die Steuerung Grotten schlecht ist. Tasten funktionieren nicht, Sachen werden ungewollt getriggert weil es die selbe taste hat, Cursor verschwindet, Map hängt fest, Bildschirm ist nicht mehr drehbar usw.
    An sich ein schönes game mit vielen Möglichkeiten, aber auf der Playsi nur mit viel Akzeptanz spielbar.
    Schade. absoluter fail bisher.
    Man würde sich auch nicht drüber aufregen, wenn Patches kommen, die es beheben...
    Aber es kommen Patches, die es eben nicht beheben, sondern den Ingame-Shop updaten...
    Neue Charaktere, neue Cash Optionen aber keine "NOTWENDIGEN" bugfixes.
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Metascore
65

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. Dec 1, 2025
    70
    Tower of Fantasy is, at this point, an anomaly among its peers. Beyond its perfectly average music, Hotta Studio keeps steering the game in such bizarre directions that it’s hard to tell whether it’s intentional design or the result of consulting a Magic 8 Ball. And even with the Warp Server, it’s still unmistakably Tower of Fantasy: a janky, charming, and fighting an uphill battle to reinvent itself after years of decline.
  2. Sep 26, 2022
    95
    A really good free-to-play open world game that’s easy to recommend to solo players or groups of friends.
  3. Sep 15, 2022
    70
    So: Do I recommend it? If you like games with anime looks, and you feel like the popular MMOs today are just too clunky for your taste, Tower of Fantasy looks to be a solid option. It’s kind of rough around the edges, but more than makes up for that with the fun factor and potential for long term playability. Perhaps not for everyone, but it is a surprisingly good entry into the F2P MMO space, especially among those with a mobile version.