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Tower of Time

Tower of Time

Deal overview

Tower of Time is currently 92% off on Gog — down to $1.99 from $24.99.

At 92% off, this is one of the deepest discounts Tower of Time reaches on Gog — near its typical floor.

That works out to $23 off the Gog list price of $24.99.

This deal is for the PC version. Click View Deal to open the official Gog page — prices and regional availability are confirmed at checkout, not by GamesCreed.

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About this game

Tower of Time is a party-based RPG that puts real weight on tactics, built by a small studio that clearly cares more about tough, satisfying fights than padding out a map with fetch quests. You lead a group of champions through a mysterious tower in a world where magic and technology have collided in a way that isn’t going well for anyone, and the story unfolds as you climb.

How it plays

The centerpiece here is combat, and it’s built around a system the developers call Arrow-Time: real-time fighting that you can slow down or pause completely to line up your moves. Instead of clicking through fights on autopilot, you’re constantly reading the battlefield, positioning your party, and timing skills against what the enemy is about to do. Between fights, you’re building out your characters across seven distinct classes, each with two separate skill trees to specialize into, and hunting down gear from a genuinely large loot pool. The game also leans into that puzzle feeling on purpose. Higher difficulties expect you to actually understand how your classes and gear interact rather than just outleveling problems, and there’s a long roster of enemies and bosses designed to test that understanding in different ways. If the full story mode feels like too much of a commitment, there’s an RPGlite option that trims the narrative and lets you get straight to party building and fighting, plus a permadeath mode for anyone who wants the stakes cranked all the way up.

Who it’s for

This one’s for people who miss when RPG combat asked something of you. If you enjoy sitting with a tough encounter, trying a few different approaches, and eventually cracking it through smart positioning and skill combos, this is squarely built for that mindset. Fans of classic party-based RPGs and tactics games will feel right at home with the class variety and gear systems. On the other hand, if you’d rather breeze through combat to get to the story, or you find pause-and-plan fighting tedious, this is going to wear on you fast, especially since the game is upfront that its harder difficulties are genuinely demanding. New players are better off starting on a lower difficulty and working up rather than diving straight into the punishing end of the scale.

Is it worth it?

For the tactics crowd, this is the kind of game that rewards a real time investment. There’s a lot of story content, a deep enough skill and equipment system to keep theorycrafting interesting, and difficulty options that let the game grow with you instead of getting stale. It’s a slower burn than a lot of modern RPGs, and that’s exactly the appeal if tactical combat is what you’re after. It’s a solid pickup on sale for anyone who’s been meaning to try it, and honestly not a bad buy even at full price if you know going in that you want something that fights back.

Quick facts

Genre: Indie, RPG, Strategy. Developer and publisher: Event Horizon. Platform: PC (Steam). Released April 12, 2018.

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