EDIT: More urgently than my original review below, this game flat out DOES NOT RUN on many modern graphics cards, and it's been made clear there are zero plans to provide support in the future. DO NOT BUY.

This game concept, character models, and sound effects are all what I'd call "cute". The gameplay, however, falls short of anything appealing. It may have been decent had the campaign missions been a bit shorter and if your powers had more variety, but when the game tasked me to drop rocks on workers' heads for 10 minutes straight, the novelty of the goofy death screams quickly wore off.

In short, Babel Rising is a towering example of a game that's simplistic and repetitive to a fault. Pass over it.

Babel Rising is a game where you play the role of a god that doesn't want people to build a tower of Babel. So, what if he broaden a plague? No, that would be too easy, let's throw rocks and fireballs at people!

Does it sound fun? If you think so, I have a bad message for you - it's only for the first minute. The gameplay of the game is grindy, as you only throw elemental spells at people (just need a mouse for playing). That still would be not so bad, but let's explain it with level objectives:

- Level 1: Kill 40 workers,
- Level 2: Survive 20 waves of enemies (and each wave has ~5 workers),
- Level 3: Kill 40 priests (and a priest usually comes with a each wave),
- Level 4: Survive 8 minutes,
- Level 5: Kill 450 workers.

I hope that's enough to explain you how repetitive it is, thus boring. The game has few bugs worth mentioning, like local multiplayer that crashes the game, or a skill that crashes the game if you have an NVidia GPU (check discussions).

While Babel Rising has a nice idea for a gameplay mechanics, it isn't fun at all, and nicer graphics can't help it. Don't even think about buying that.

If you have an NVidia card don't get this.
The enjoyability of the game is up to the player, but in this case the game breaking bug is what stops it.
There is a bug in the Wind power of the game, which is unlocked and required to be used for the third level, but completely breaks the game on many NVidia cards. After pestering the support staff with a ticket, I found out that they have been aware of this bug since launch, and have no intention of fixing it.

I thought this would be a cool physics game where you could destroy the tower. Boy was I in for a disappointment.
You basically just shoot little people over and over, sometimes with different sequences of powers. It's dull, repetitive gameplay. So dull.
Not a god game, not a physics game. Just something that plays like one of those early 80's video games but with nicer graphics.

Babel Rising is a tower defense game developed by Mando and published by Ubisoft. I have no experience with other Mando games, but I've generally enjoyed games released by Ubisoft. Babel Rising goes against this trend.

It starts off with an interesting enough premise. There isn't really much of a story going on, but it's not hard to ascertain that the little people are trying to make a tower like Babel and as a god you have to stop them. There are 4 elemental powers at your disposal, and each power give you two abilities, a local and an area of effect. Use your elemental power enough to unleash a super attack over time.

The problem really arises after you get past the main idea of the game. It's a good start, but there is not enough to justify spending more than a couple minutes with it. Little people rush the tower, you attack them. There is a little variety to the enemy types, but it does not affect the gameplay much. Little people rush the tower, you attack them. When I found that the third mission would require me to defeat 40 of the priest type enemies, and they came at a rate of about 2 per minute, I couldn't stomach the idea of playing the round for 20 minutes. In addition, although you can mix it up a little with your attacks, there really isn't much difference between the various local and area powers.

The graphics are cartoonish and passable, but there are no advanced video options. You cannot change the resolution. I played with a 360 controller as I tend to whenever given the option, but there was a huge glitch with the controls. After completing a mission, there was no way to continue. It just locked on to the mission complete screen. While looking at the support forum I see this has been a problem since its release, so that's not changing anytime soon. If you want to play with a controller, prepare to ALT-Tab and quit the game in between missions. The controls may be better suited to keyboard and mouse anyway....

There isn't enough in Babel Rising to justify the price tag ($10 at this time). I could see this being a bundle purchase you might spend a few minutes in, but it will have trouble holding your attention for longer than that. This game might have been better as a iOS or Andriod mobile game if they weren't willing to flesh it out more.

Grade: D-

Nothing other than the raw concept about this game is in any way entertaining. Seems like someone thought 'hey towerdefence plus god game while building the tower of babel! awesome!" but never expanded beyond that one sentence.

I can see it now all the meetings simply being everyone crowded into a room the leads repeating that one sentence then everyone sighing and fileing back to thier desks.


Dont buy this.

This game can be played with one hand but it brings no pleasure :C

Babel Rising gives us a tower defense game where you play the role of a God. You have 4 powers, earth, water, wind and fire and they all come with 3 powers. Left-clicking executes the most basic spell, and it's mostly used for small groups. Right-clicking allows you to take out multiple enemies and finally holding the middle mouse button will grant you the most powerful spell, like a flood or a rolling boulder. With these powers your goal is to stop the villagers from building a tower. If they complete it, it's game over. You have no other abilities or towers (except for your powers) to stop them so it's a bit primitive for a tower defense game.
So far I wouldn't recommend it. No, you're better off with TD games like Orcs Must Die or Anomaly.

[Rating: 56/100]

Repetative, addicting until you flushed it out. What you see is what you get.

For kids maybe but not for me.

3500 years ago, a student in Babylon did the inevitable and carved jokes about "beer," "intercourse," and "your mother" into a tablet. Now researchers have done the inevitable and published an elevated dissection of said jokes in a reputable journal. Anyway... Babel rising is a simple game where you are tasked with preventing the construction of the titular tower of Babel using a variety of elemental powers. You can only pick two out of the four elements, and the tower can be built in three different eras, which helps to add a little variety. Not enough however, as the game is very repetitive and the fun of blowing up the little humans doesn't take terribly long to turn into a slog.

-the 2 player versus mode is pretty fun
-explosions sending people flying everywhere
-plays smoothly and does everything it says on the can

-Gets old fast, desperately needs more variety
-the boat shooting mini game is terrible
-you never get to make all the people speak different languages and start killing each other as a power and you really should

All in all a quick throw away game, mainly worthwhile for the 2 player mode. If you want it get it on special as I don't think it's worth the asking price, but it's not BAD, just not very good