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What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 64 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R4] The Tower 1/5 · US Add: It’s a great game. It would get 5 stars if it weren’t for the ads. Get a different ad company. Your game is based on ads. Ads that go on for minutes, have small x’s so every time you hit in the wrong spot it opens the web browser, have x’s you can’t see so you have to hit all over the screen to find it. Yeah, they’re just phenomenal.
2. [R6] The Tower 3/5 · US Do NOT Watch Ads: I don’t normally write reviews for games, but the scam for how they run ads was enough to really set me off. The game is perfectly fine, pretty fun, standard tower defense game. But the ads are HORRIBLE. You sit through the whole 30 sec - 1 min ads for a reward of 5 measly gems… and then there’s NO button to close the ad. You’re just stuck sitting there looking at the link to the
3. [R8] The Tower 4/5 · US Best mobile game but L ads: I think this is a really good game with decent progression, and it isn’t too p2w. One thing that sucks tho is that every unity ad is broken and u won’t get rewards bc it gets stuck. I think making the stuff u can buy cheaper tho, bc almost $400 to get all the prenium pass is way too much for something that isn’t worth it
4. [R12] The Tower 3/5 · US Broken Ads: Fun game, but when I watch ads for rewards I keep getting an ad for a game where you buy property and you cannot exit out of this ad. It stays on screen until I exit out of the whole game and relaunch. It's extremely annoying and I don't even think I got my reward for watching the ad. I'm done with that.
5. [R1] The Tower 1/5 · US A Perfect Tower, but trash and predatory: The purpose of this game is to prey on people. Even if you resist spending, the sunk cost of time spent could drive you to play much longer than it is enjoyable to play. It’s becomes a nonstop job, and one that you end up losing money to. Don’t start playing this game. It plays the long con, but it will get your wallet eventually
6. [R24] The Tower 3/5 · US Music good progression painstakingly slow: You can say the music is good all you want. I don’t mind. But you’re lying to yourself if you enjoy grinding away just to get 500 coins for the thorns upgrade, then get even more coins to upgrade base damage percentage, then repeat for every single upgrade in the entire game.
7. [R27] The Tower 3/5 · US Eh: This game is a Grind, Imagine rust with .025% gather rates and still a normal upkeep. if there is an “idle” to this, it is P2W or HOURS into it. good luck
8. [R30] The Tower 3/5 · US Hard to start: It takes a long time to start and it took me 20 hours to actually start making progress.
9. [R33] The Tower 3/5 · US Annoying and slow: The game itself is good but the progress is slow and repetitive. After some fun of playing you realize the game is pay to win so in short make the game fair and active and interactive
10. [R34] The Tower 2/5 · US Fun but painstakingly slow: The game is a lot of fun, but is not a true idle TD game. Id rate it higher except for the fact that progression is so slow. If you want to get anywhere you’ll almost certainly have to buy ad free or bonus packs to increase the amount of coins you permanently make. But even then you’ll need to grind for hours (weeks) to get anywhere and then you’ll have to grind for
11. [R10] The Tower 1/5 · US Delete all my progress: Had a game I played when I was on a road trip or other boring activity. The new update dropped and all my progress is gone cause now I need an account.
12. [R39] The Tower 3/5 · US Should be playable offline: This is a great, fun, entertaining game that I enjoyed very much, although I deleted it because I prefer games that can be played offline and this seems like the type of game that should be playable without an internet connection. If the dev changes that then this is definitely a 5 star game!
13. [R51] Tower War 2/5 · US $$$$: It seems the only way to level up is to purchase your way to power. Earning the required items in game play doesn’t happen. You get to the point where you have to watch a ad in order to boost your production before every match.
14. [R53] Tower War 3/5 · US Fun but frustrating: The game is very fun. But the adds after every level (they start with a bunch of levels and no adds, then ask you to rate the game. Then it’s an add after every round) are just too much. So you buy add free. Only 7 bucks. And yet you still have to watch adds to progress. I understand they have to make money, but man do they gouge. It’s too bad, cuz I would play this game a
15. [R54] Tower War 1/5 · US An infuriating amount of ads: We all live playing a 30 second game and then being forced to watch three minutes of ads. Absolute trash behavior for a sad repetitive game.
16. [R55] Tower War 4/5 · US Ok but: This game is a good way to pass the time-but it becomes impossible to level up the equipment without evolve pieces, which take months to accumulate. I do spend money on VIP-which should be monthly, not bi weekly. But the asks for spending are astronomical. It’s like $50 is nothing to these people when it’s like 2-3 hours of work. Overall I continue to play and will VIP-but I can’t do mor
17. [R13] The Tower 1/5 · US Great game but the Ads ruin it: I would love to give this game 5 stars, because it truly is fun but lately the ads are literally unskipable. You can’t skip them whatsoever and it feels like I am being forced to buy the no ads thing, which I will not. Not sure if it’s a bug but if it’s intentional then shame on the developers.
18. [R5] The Tower 5/5 · US This game: This game is the most interesting and most grinding game I’ve ever played it doesn’t have random ads that pop up and the most grinding it not to good and not to bad it will probably get better the more updates it will get but only time will tell.
19. [R9] The Tower 3/5 · US Way to many ads: The game is fun but it has way way to many ads.