Tower of Fantasy

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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 83 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 83
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 83
  3. Negative: 50 out of 83

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  1. baptistew
    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. Gosen
    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. harukatruong
    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. Serendibite
    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    … Expand
  5. Cypherous
    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    … Expand
  6. Xelluse
    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.    … Expand
  7. Arkidd
    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. BozZ
    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. Hariel
    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. Bawer
    Aug 12, 2022
    7
    Tower of Fantasy is an Anime-MMO that is set in the future. The story is about the planet calls Aida and the people take their resources through a tower named Tower of Fantasy. The planet has suffered war and radiation. The task is to survive in this world.

    You can choose between a male and female character. After a battle and escape the character doesn't have any memory of what    Tower of Fantasy is an Anime-MMO that is set in the future. The story is about the planet calls Aida and the people take their resources through a tower named Tower of Fantasy. The planet has suffered war and radiation. The task is to survive in this world.

    You can choose between a male and female character. After a battle and escape the character doesn't have any memory of what happened before. A group of warriors finds the character and from there on, your story starts.

    The graphic is quite decent. There are certain ways of configurations. But at this point you gotta be careful because if you set the graphic on extreme and more, your graphic-card is going to heat over. My graphic-card temperature was about 80 degree Celsius when i set the graphics on extreme and more. So it is recommendable to lower the graphic settings on "good".

    The environment is detailed and motivates to discover and travel around. The Fighting style varies depend on what kind of a weapon you choose. If you choose certain weapons, you get the imitation-status of wanderers who are missing until now. It means you look like the missing wanderers. Nevertheless, you can turn off the imitation-status and take the original look of your own character you created.

    There is a PVE and PVP-System. The PVE-System goes smoothly and there are different kind of enemies. The PVP-System is good and is a great feature.

    The negative point is that there is no V-Sync. It isn't reasonable why this element isn't implemented yet.
    Furthermore, there is no setup for a controller. You can only use the keyboard and mouse.

    The gacha-system seems to be inspired by Genshin-Impact. I tested it and right now i can say it is quite fair. However, the payment method accepts only credit card. I was wondering why they don't accept Paypal, since it is an often used payment method. If you are ready to use a credit card, i recommend you to get a prepaid-credit card that you can get at a filling station/ petrol station. Going to a bank and request a credit card isn't necessary.

    I hope the upcoming updates will solve these problems.

    Conclusion: 7/10    … Expand
  11. hennessy
    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    … Expand
  12. Bob_Noob
    Aug 11, 2022
    2
    Hard to target enemies, too many bugs. Sometimes attack not responding. Everything are bad except can customize main characters!!!!
  13. Joywithyou
    Aug 13, 2022
    9
    As a Genshin Impact player, I think these two games are different. Tof is more like a MMORPG game which allows me to throw a party in the game. It was fun to see random people running around in the world and made me less lonely to play the game. When I played Genshin Impact, I could only get to play with my friend after level 16. It was such a tough journey playing alone. Thanks Tof! WhenAs a Genshin Impact player, I think these two games are different. Tof is more like a MMORPG game which allows me to throw a party in the game. It was fun to see random people running around in the world and made me less lonely to play the game. When I played Genshin Impact, I could only get to play with my friend after level 16. It was such a tough journey playing alone. Thanks Tof! When you could have both, why don't you need to make a choice? Though the game still have some room for improvement, I am looking forward to the next update!!!… Expand
  14. blackmager
    Aug 12, 2022
    0
    character animations were so bad for a game. if you want to play an MMO, you should play another MMO.
  15. barrybarry
    Aug 13, 2022
    9
    Indeed, the game needs polishing. But its character customization system has so much potential. With more outfits, you can enjoy yourself in the anime world. The combat system is good but more mechanics could be added in future. Hope the dev team listen to the community and keeps improving Tower of Fantasy. Looking forward to the end game!
  16. l1lj4
    Aug 12, 2022
    1
    horrible. the game was full of bugs and errors, character animations were so bad for a game made in 2022.
  17. GodCoward
    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
  18. edwardstone
    Aug 13, 2022
    9
    remarkable game for its character customization, good to play with others together even with some bugs to fix, the game itself is recommended.
  19. konanamly
    Aug 13, 2022
    10
    it‘s such amazing free to play game！ I've been playing for hours and it's really addicting ，and I create my own 2D image it‘s so funnny！
  20. lilqqaka
    Aug 13, 2022
    10
    I’m already a fan of open world mmorpg so ToF definitely cater to my taste, team up with my bros to explore the world is most fun
  21. Aran96
    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    … Expand
  22. darsigg
    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!
  23. sofunnyLOL
    Aug 18, 2022
    0
    poor imitation genshin.
    No fun whatsoever.
    There are too many bugs.
    Not recommended to play.
  24. AbyssKeeper
    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
  25. foxmo
    Aug 17, 2022
    5
    As someone who spent about 100+ hours on the original Chinese OBT last year, I feel this global release isn’t as good as how it was during the original OBT.

    There are obviously more bugs and little improvements. 1. The character sharing and importing was a fantastic experience during the original OBT but it is now broken miserably… 2. I see many people complaining about the time    As someone who spent about 100+ hours on the original Chinese OBT last year, I feel this global release isn’t as good as how it was during the original OBT.

    There are obviously more bugs and little improvements.

    1. The character sharing and importing was a fantastic experience during the original OBT but it is now broken miserably…
    2. I see many people complaining about the time gate, it’s definitely worse than the original OBT. (During the Chinese release, I didn’t face any lootbox time gate until entering the third major region. The level limitation was there since day one starting from around lv20/30 ish I couldn’t remember)
    3. Many parts aren’t localized well (EN). The lab reports are not aligned well and look confusing. Missing translations on some map/ui textures. Missing voice lines through the story.

    Both Perfect World and Tencent are notorious for leeching off money. From the design details, you can tell this game is mediocre compared to Genshin Impact in all aspects. In addition to the confusing currency tokens/points and colourful maze-like UI menus, they exploit the item rarity colour scheme too. Many golden looking legendary items are just trash fragments. And you will need stacks of them to make them useful. There are just countless different fragments you need to pay attention to.

    The action combat system is quite unique and works well in a multiplayer game. Kudos to that.    … Expand
  26. Llopez05
    Sep 3, 2022
    10
    Creo que este juego va a perdurar por su contenido que va dirijido a los jugadores, es un muy buen punto a favor, en comparación a Genshin Impact, desde la creación del personaje, historia, el MMO y el RPG, el gameplay es bueno, las armas y los personajes. Tiene de todo un poco, claro que se pudiera decir que es una copia de Genshin, pero mejorado.
  27. KinimodYunmi
    Oct 2, 2022
    7
    Das Spiel habe ich im Sommer zufällig in der Steam Entdeckungsliste gesehen, auf die Wunschliste gepackt, vergessen und als Instagram Werbung kurz vor Release gesehen und mich dran erinnert. Direkt zu Release gezockt und die Story heute abgeschlossen, macht echt Laune, sieht super aus, man bekommt viel kostenlos, aber wenn man den Suppressor von 4.0 auf 4.5 braucht um durch das Gift zuDas Spiel habe ich im Sommer zufällig in der Steam Entdeckungsliste gesehen, auf die Wunschliste gepackt, vergessen und als Instagram Werbung kurz vor Release gesehen und mich dran erinnert. Direkt zu Release gezockt und die Story heute abgeschlossen, macht echt Laune, sieht super aus, man bekommt viel kostenlos, aber wenn man den Suppressor von 4.0 auf 4.5 braucht um durch das Gift zu kommen, muss man so 2-3 Wochen erstmal nur die Einlogitems sammeln und Waffentrainings farmen und weiterzukommen...… Expand
  28. sasashimi
    Aug 13, 2022
    9
    btw Mia is the beeeeeeeeeest! Hope all AI are like her you know iam saying something like uncanny valley
  29. episode3
    Aug 13, 2022
    9
    I like its customizable characters and the gameplay itself. Kinda immersive
  30. dudebox
    Aug 13, 2022
    9
    I really like how you can use other character's abilities on your character and still keep your chosen look, and you can change the attack methods by switching different weapons.
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65

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. Game8
    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.
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  2. GameGrin
    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.
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  3. Gamer Escape
    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.
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