a serious review: re-edited for 6/20/23 (12/25/23 edit - MIDI support added)

- this game has been in early access since release (2015)

- the lead dev(?) (who was also the fella behind gmod tower) considers this to be his life's work, and is very hostile towards anything that he does not like. he is also very vigilant about suppressing criticism towards his life's work, and very much reminds me of YandereDev.

- the average tower unite player, if placed on a political line between insane ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ communist leftie and actual nazi, is (very unsurprisingly) almost always an insane ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ communist leftie. any political opinion even slightly towards the center is considered to be incorrect and will get you ostracized.

- the moderators are all pissy manchildren who will mute you for the most minor of infractions. i've been muted twice, once for telling turkish people to stop speaking turkish in global chat (which they weren't supposed to be doing anyways) and another time for making fun of libertarians.

- half of the game either doesn't work or is poorly coded. the netcode is horrible, and makes most games actually godawful and really frustrating to play.

- the lighting for this game is terrible, and light will pass through just about everything.

- there is no content to keep you engaged (unless you REALLY like building) that isn't either a super long, tedious grind, or a generic minigame that's been done better by 20 other games.

- this game has a constant ~200 playercount (sometimes higher) and only really spikes every 1-2 years. for a game that's really only held up by the social aspect, there sure isn't a lot of socializing outside of a few groups of internet weirdos.

- the community is very tight-knit and everybody knows each other and their dirty little secrets. if i had a dollar for every actual pedophile who actively played this game i would probably have 50 dollars.

- the entire condo system in which this game is built upon is reduced to two things: insane autism fantasy (because the owner doesn't know how to do interior decor/doesn't care to not make it look gaudy) and porn. it feels as though every single condo listed is just a front for people to look at porn with each other, and you will notice that if you don't put "18+" into the title of your condo, you will get little interaction from the community. this is because they are all degenerate coomers and just want to look at each others porn collections. i have probably seen 4-5 condos that i actually really enjoyed (creative, artistic, funny, etc.) and the rest have been crazy autism fantasies and/or porn. you'll notice by my playtime (339h as of writing) that this is not a good ratio of regular, normal people to porn addict weirdo internet losers.

dont give the developers any more money tbh, they tried crowdfunding *successfully, mind you* after gmod tower got shut down, raised $73,648 (on indiegogo alone, they've made more in game sales) and then under-delivered severely (if you look at the funding milestones on indiegogo, at least half of the features promised are still unimplemented or WIP) ((crowdfunding began in 2015, the same year that the private alpha was released.))