The Deadly Tower of Monsters
The Deadly Tower of Monsters is an action-packed adventure, full of time-honored literary themes: the daughter versus the tyrant father, the planet full of innocent ape-creatures, the dashing space-age…
The Deadly Tower of Monsters is an adventure developed by ACE Team, released 19 January 2016 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $4.49 at GOG. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What The Deadly Tower of Monsters is
The Deadly Tower of Monsters is an adventure game developed by ACE Team and released in 2016. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Scarlet Nova - the space diva with a checkered past - and introducing...the robot! Amazing adventures! Strange drama and more await in the deadly tower of monsters. The action-filled adventure game for personal computers and the Playstation 4 entertainment system. Marooned on the desolate planet Gravoria, the trio of adventurers find their only method of escape awaits at the top of a tower - a tower renowned for its deadliness and its propensity to be filled with monsters! Lizard-men! UFO’s! Nuclear ants! Dinosaurs! Robot monkeys! All of these horrors await our intrepid adventurers as they ascend the deadly tower. Will they avoid their own doom?
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Deadly Tower of Monsters holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 54 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $4.49, that works out to about $0.75 per hour of the main story, or $0.64 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 1024MB or ATI Radeon HD 5750/6670 1024MB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.49 at GOG, 70% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Deadly Tower of Monsters launched on 19 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Deadly Tower of Monsters yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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