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The Tower vs Summoners Greed

The Tower 4.2★ · Free + IAP 45
Winner Summoners Greed
Summoners Greed 4.9★ · Free + IAP 70

Summoners Greed is the better choice for players seeking a more polished and less frustrating experience, despite recent balance issues, while The Tower is plagued by technical problems and slow progression.

Full reviews: The Tower · Summoners Greed

Summoners Greed generally offers a more enjoyable and addictive tower defense experience with creative monsters and optional ads, though recent updates have made progression harder. The Tower, while having a good core concept, suffers from significant issues with unclosable ads, slow progression, and bugs that hinder gameplay and make it feel pay-to-win.

Head to head

Features & Content edge: Summoners GreedR2R3R5R10
The Tower The Tower has a good core idea and thousands of upgrades, which some players find fun and addictive R2R5. However, many users report running out of content quickly, with only four chapters/levels, making it feel like an unfinished proof of concept R3. Progression is also described as extremely slow, with minimal improvements from upgrades R10.
Summoners Greed Summoners Greed offers a wide variety of monsters to collect and level up, with creative designs . Players enjoy the strategic depth and find the game addictive . Some users wish for more evolutions and longer challenge rounds .
Ease of Use & Progression tieR4R5R13R14
The Tower The Tower has a steep learning curve for upgrades R5 and is widely criticized for extremely slow progression, making it feel like a grind or a job R13. Some players find it too difficult and describe it as 'pay to win' R4R14.
Summoners Greed Summoners Greed is generally considered fun and addictive, with some users noting that the game truly opens up after wave 60 . However, recent updates have made progression significantly harder, with monsters being nerfed and maps becoming more difficult R54. New players especially struggle due to the difficulty in acquiring necessary special and mythic monsters .
Reliability & Bugs edge: The TowerR1R6R7R8
The Tower The Tower is plagued by significant bugs, particularly with ads that cannot be closed, causing the app to freeze or crash and rewards to be lost R1R8R19R28. Some users also report a bug where they stop earning gold or cash after a certain wave R6. There are also reports of purchased perks not being restored after reinstallation R7 and the game draining phone battery and making the device hot .
Summoners Greed Summoners Greed has experienced glitches where monsters cannot damage enemies on certain maps after updates R52R56. Some users report issues with invite friend rewards not working R59 and problems with purchases not being received or accounts not saving correctly, leading to loss of progress and items R78.
Price & Value tieR4R9R14R15
The Tower The Tower is a free-to-play game with in-app purchases, but many users feel it is 'pay to win' R4R9R14. The gacha system for modules is criticized for low drop rates and lack of pity mechanics, making it difficult to progress without spending money R15.
Summoners Greed Summoners Greed is free-to-play with in-app purchases. While some users appreciate the optional nature of ads , others feel the game quickly becomes 'pay to play' or 'pay to win' due to mechanics and difficulty spikes R53R64R66. Some players were disappointed with the value of their purchases, finding 'special' characters not worth the money .
Support tieR7R54R59R60
The Tower Reviews for The Tower do not directly mention customer support interactions. However, issues like uncredited purchases after reinstallation R7 and persistent bugs suggest potential shortcomings in support or bug resolution.
Summoners Greed Summoners Greed users report issues with unreceived purchases R78 and uncredited rewards R59R60, which implies a lack of effective support for these problems. There are also complaints about developers making the game harder instead of adding fun content R54R64.
Pick The Tower if

You enjoy a challenging, grind-heavy idle game with deep upgrade systems and are willing to tolerate significant ad-related bugs and slow progression R5.

Pick Summoners Greed if

You prefer a tower defense game with creative monsters, strategic depth, and generally optional ads, and are prepared for potential difficulty spikes and recent balance changes .

Evidence note: The Tower's lifetime rating is significantly lower than Summoners Greed's, and recent negative reviews for The Tower heavily focus on unclosable ads and slow progression, which aligns with its lower score. Summoners Greed's recent negative reviews often mention balance changes and difficulty spikes, but it still maintains a very high lifetime rating, suggesting a strong core game despite these issues. The free-to-play nature of both apps means that some negativity is expected due to ads and monetization, but The Tower's ad issues seem more severe and game-breaking.

Frequently asked

Does The Tower have unskippable ads?
Yes, many users report that ads in The Tower are impossible to close without restarting the app, leading to lost rewards and game freezes R1R8R19R28.
Is Summoners Greed pay-to-win?
While Summoners Greed is free-to-play, some users feel it becomes 'pay to play' or 'pay to win' quickly, as progression can be very difficult without spending money on special monsters or retries R53R64R66.
Are there bugs in Summoners Greed?
Yes, Summoners Greed has reported bugs, including monsters not dealing damage on certain maps, invite friend rewards not working, and issues with purchased items not being received or accounts not saving properly R52R56R59R78.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R2] The Tower 5/5 · US Peak: It actually pretty good ngl
  2. [R3] The Tower 3/5 · US Only 4 levels, unfinished game: You run out of content very quickly. Only four chapters/levels. Ran out of things to do in just a couple hours. There’s a whole currency system for “diamonds” but there’s nowhere to spend them. This is a proof of concept more than a game.
  3. [R5] The Tower 5/5 · US Fun!: Took me a while to figure out the upgrades , but once I got it , it’s a lot of fun
  4. [R10] The Tower 1/5 · US Worst game ever: This game was so terrible at the beginning and in the middle part those like no upgrades like I just kept playing and playing and playing and I made no progress. This is the worst game I’ve probably ever played. I just kept dying on the same level level five.
  5. [R4] The Tower 1/5 · US To hard: This game is fun but it just to hard to play and to much p2w
  6. [R13] The Tower 4/5 · US Good overall: Good game, after a couple weeks of play, you really have to grind a lot to farm enough resources to level up which is annoying, but still very fun
  7. [R14] The Tower 1/5 · US Pay to win.: Garbage
  8. [R1] The Tower 2/5 · US Fun game, but can’t close ads: It’s a fun game and I am trying to get the bonus ad gems, but after watching the ads, it is impossible to close the ads without closing out of the app, which makes you lose the gems. It looks like you can play the game in the ad, but I’m not doing all that. I even tried reporting an ad to get it to close. It stated clearly that would close the ad, but forfeit any rew
  9. [R6] The Tower 3/5 · US Recent bug: I’ve been experiencing a bug where I don’t earn anymore gold or cash after a good amount of waves. Last time this happened I was in wave 502 and I wanted to continue the game later. After I resume to the same game, it glitches and I don’t earn anymore gold or cash.
  10. [R7] The Tower 2/5 · US Purchases aren’t recorded: I paid for a few perks, simply because I enjoyed the game. My phone had problems, had to reinstall everything, was unable to get my perks back without purchasing them a second time. Feels crooked, so I moved on to something else.
  11. [R8] The Tower 4/5 · US Ads crash the game: It’s a fun game, but watching ads for rewards crashes the game. the ad plays, it says reward granted, but when you click the x button the whole app freezes until you restart it. it doesn’t give me the rewards, nor does it give me credit towards completing the daily missions.
  12. [R9] The Tower 3/5 · US The tower: Game is good. A little pay wall for what it offers. And has ads
  13. [R15] The Tower 4/5 · US The module gacha is trash!!: They say it is 2% to get epic module. But guess what? 150 pulls and 0 epic. This game has 0 pitty in gacha. Stone is very limited unless you spend money so the only thing that help new/beginner (I’m at T10-104) players to catch up is modules. But 150 pulls and not even one epic? This is so trash.
  14. [R54] Summoners Greed 1/5 · US Devs make it harder instead of more fun: I finally got through some tough maps, thinking was finally among progress only for them to nerf the monsters and make the maps harder than they were. Why am I failing on maps I easily defeated before? And on wave 1 to make matters worse
  15. [R59] Summoners Greed 3/5 · GB Invite friends: Invite friends rewards don’t work, sent out more than enough to get all rewards and haven’t got one.
  16. [R60] Summoners Greed 2/5 · US SCAM: I got this game thinking I was gonna get my 30 free rerolls but nope I made a whole Facebook account and followed them but but I didn’t got the free monster you get and every time I use my fire ball beer the cheat I don’t work
  17. [R19] The Tower 4/5 · US Where’s the close button?: A really good game, but the ads for coin bonuses just suck, some are like 1 minute long for a 5 second clip repeating over and over, plus, sometimes the X never appears or are too small
  18. [R28] The Tower 1/5 · US Love the game but: Ads will not close, so I can’t get rewards for watching ads
  19. [R53] Summoners Greed 3/5 · US Decent game riddled with advertisements: The gameplay is alright, but it’s interrupted every other wave with a character trying to convince you to watch an ad for a reward. Also, the leftmost column of icons is basically reserved for ways to spend money. Just lost all interest after I died twice and had to pay money to retry again, or wait 24 hours.
  20. [R64] Summoners Greed 1/5 · US Developers Greed: They periodically change things to make the game more difficult instead of adding content. The content that they DO add makes the game more difficult and hardly any more exciting. For example, they add more “special” monsters that take so money gold to level up that I can set up an autoclicker on the map that gives the most coins for 2 weeks straight and it won’t be enough to max
  21. [R66] Summoners Greed 1/5 · US Essentially Pay to play: Not even 5 minutes into the game and literally EVERY single mechanic has pay to win built in and you quickly cannot progress any father without spending money on the game. The gameplay isn’t even interesting enough to hook you in before the pay wall hits.
  22. [R52] Summoners Greed 4/5 · US Unknown Glitch: Currently there’s a weird bug happening with the maps Meat of the Matter (Hard) and Ice Queen’s Tempest (Normal) that makes it so that my monsters cannot damage the enemies. It shows damage numbers, but their health bar does not move when in the prior patch they would be defeated in one hit from my monsters
  23. [R56] Summoners Greed 3/5 · GB Great but a big glitch: Fantastic game, but there’s clearly a major glitch once you hit “difficult” in the third category (as well as others). The game goes from a steady progression in hardness, to being totally impossible - I have 9 monsters all around level 300, and yet they aren’t able to kill a single enemy (not even the little ones!) and deal no damage at all. Surely this must be a glitch? O
  24. [R78] Summoners Greed 1/5 · US Scammed me: I spent $50 on this game and deleted for storage. I tried to get it back and restore my purchases and it won’t give me my items back.

Synthesized from 110 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store