A well-polished and interesting game with extremely clunky controls, likely abandoned by the developer. First off, this game is VERY punishing - one hit from anything results in instant death (even just falling from too high of a platform) and will send you back to the beginning of the game. This isn't a downside though; many punishing games can be rewarding for skilled players. However, I prefer if the difficulty comes from the gameplay rather than the CONTROLS simply being obtuse. To swing a sword, you press the Jump button (yes, it will also make you jump). To hold something, you have to hold down X the ENTIRE time because if you ever let it go, the item in your hands will be violently flung away from you. Did I mention X is also the Run button? Additionally, there's no pause button whatsoever and the developer has expressed his dislike of them - good luck if anything ever requires your immediate attention in real life. This is a game that does not respect your time.

One thing that really strikes me as unusual is that this game actually has lots of hidden content that 99% of the playerbase will almost never see due to the base games difficulty. It seems like the developer finished the first two chapters and then spent all his time adding optional content behind it, but it feels pointless because only the most dedicated, adderall-infused, diehard gamers will actually manage to see any of it. The Boiler Room? The Colosseum? Seeing the final boss in basketball jersey and dunking on him in a basketball match? All this developer effort spent on things almost nobody will ever experience. It's honestly a shame.

Dont buy this if you plan to play it on steam deck, its completely busted on deck/linux.

It doesnt work at all and there's no good or easy way to fix it.
(only 1 solution which is a long process which requires multiple tools and still leads to a buggy mess.)

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Gameplay is alright, didn't have a problem with the controls like people complain about.
But really the games a bit too slow paced for me,
especially considering you'll be replaying the same levels over and over it becomes time consuming.

The shortcuts help with this, but wizard man kept woopin me every time after the first couple games.

Expected songs from the trailer to be in the areas shown on-trailer but got more generic music for them instead.
The music was good enough for me though.

Haven't tried the multiplayer yet since I never got it working on steam deck.

Lack of accessibility features holds it back

This game doesnt have enough variety between playthroughs to justify how unforgiving it is. Such a hardcore challenge should have been a option, not the only option. I wanted a more casual approach, of playing stage by stage instead of having to beat a entire chapter without dying.

I really enjoyed how unique each stage was, but the gratification of beating a stage is instantly ruined by dying on the next stage and having to do everything over again. Having already nearly perfected the first stages and then being forced to redo them while you try to learn the next stage is painful. There is nothing interesting about going through the same stages over and over, theres no unique loot or anything, you are always going with the same stage objects, the same potions and your climbing skills each time.

Usually when i die on a video-game i feel excited to start over, this game, unfortunately just makes me wanna turn it off.

Has potential. Also has poor controller support. frustrating controls (controller or not), a clunky inventory system, enemies that instakill on touch, and levels that sometimes can't be completed.

TowerClimb is an unfairly difficult game that uses its roguelike elements to its detriment.

The variance on the difficulty of layout for some stages are completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥. You either get a manageable or hundreds of the hell bugs in Volt Cave. You can either pass through the watchers in the Temple well enough or they cluster 5 of them in the same area. And then there's Club Z, where if you get a bad obstacle spawn you CANNOT do anything about it except teleport around it.

It's ridiculous how much the game punishes you for mistakes. Part 1 is fine, but when you get to Part 2, half the stages contain instant no-revive death pits and you have one chance to traverse some of the obstacles or you will have to waste a bunch of resources to get back up because the only way up is destroyed. At that point there is no point in having extra lives, and sometimes even when you DO, the respawn time and the camera speed is so slow that you will die again before you can get back your bearings.

This game has one of the most arbitrary and poorly done crafting system I've ever seen. It's all wild guessing, there's only a few recipes that are helpful in an average run, and the "best" items are so stupidly rare that there is no chance in hell you will ever craft one, let alone FIND the components for its components.

And don't even get me started on Legend Fragments. What kind of insane person do you have to be to play the game from the beginning, do one of the WORST instant death challenge stages using skills you will be completely untrained for, another RNG stage, beat a enemy gauntlet for a game that did NOT have combat made in mind, AND beat another final boss with 90-120 minutes in between attempts, 5/6 of it requiring you spend at LEAST an hour to get to that part?

Do NOT buy this game if you intend on beating it. There are oldschool roguelikes that are more fair than this game. ♥♥♥♥ this game and ♥♥♥♥ you KY.

The controls are terrible, and I can't even finish the tutorial because of it. I thought they’d resolve the issue by now :/

Too bad, because the game looks fun.

Played this game a couple of times. Whilst there may be a good game burried here somewhere, it's so dense that it's hard to get into. For example, the tutorial will tell you "press left to move left" but won't tell you how to climb an overhang which feels...off.

From what I've played, it does have a nice atmosphere. But if you chose to buy it then be prepared to spend a long long time memorising the controls.

I love the look of this game but it has two major flaws that make it frustrating and unfun. Firstly there's the level generation--some developers use "procedural generation" as an excuse to just dump a bunch of bad levels on you and this is one of them. It is quite, quite frequent that you receive areas you simply cannot pass without using your very limited stock of items and you cannot easily restock those when they're gone.

The other flaw, the one that really ended my interest, is the control scheme. It's overly finicky and designed to make your life difficult. Using items is an enormous pain since the default action is always to hurl it away as hard as possible which is awkward when you're generally on small ledges. To swing a sword, you have to jump. What? That's of course on the one run in ten where you even find a sword. You also must keep pressing in the direction of whatever surface you are climbing at all times or your character will immediately let go and usually die for the sin of not holding up hard enough. There are items that grant you a temporary double jump aura, activated by jumping again while in the air, but the game frequently interprets a single jump press as two and wastes the aura.

Oh, and in a game about carefully making your way up an endless tower, occasionally the levels fill with lava that rises at the same speed you can climb. Good luck with that.

First Impressions: I was really excited about this game after I saw it compared favorably with Spelunky (one of my all time favorites). However, after playing the first couple levels I felt more frustration than fun. When you die in Spelunky it is almost always your fault; each death makes sense within the systems of the game. Towerclimb feels random and unfair (and this is coming from someone who loves difficult platformers), to the point that I didn't really feel any desire to continue playing. The control scheme is inaccurate, and the pixelated graphics make it hard to discern hazards and items. Often, you spawn into a level with upward gaps that force you to dip into your limited potion supply. This would be akin to Spelunky placing you in a level where the exit is blocked, requiring a bomb to pass. I'll probably try Towerclimb again, and will change the review if necessary, but for now I don't find that this game fits my expectations.