Tiny Tower vs The Tower

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 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. [R5] Tiny Tower 5/5 · US A constant companion: I’ve been playing Tiny Tower for 15 years (yes, 15 years) and I have loved every minute of it. I have loved watching the game evolve over time and seeing what they’ve added. My favorite things to do are collect costumes and pets but I also love seeing all the fun, and funny, business and residences they have come up with. It’s been a constant source of stress-relief and had h
2. [R58] Tiny Tower 5/5 · US A Longtime Favorite: I have been playing Tiny Tower on and off for years, and every time I come back to it I’m impressed all over again. I love how they continue to add features and do all of the fun seasonal events and customizations! It’s the best mobile game ever!!!!!
3. [R100] The Tower 2/5 · US Fudds is greedy, lots of micro transactions: This is a pay to win idle game. The catch up mechanic is pitiful. Some of the higher tier resources is extremely time blocked to a point where maxing things will take years which really incentivizes people to try and play. Things are quite costly, if you don’t believe try playing the game. Music is good, the concept is neat, but it’s the dev’s greed and
4. [R61] 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
5. [R9] Tiny Tower 3/5 · US Ads ads ads!: I love this game, have played it on and off for many years, love how easy they’ve made it to get certain currencies, but HOLY ADS. You don’t NEED to watch them, but when you decide to, they’re EVERYWHERE. They aren’t even the easy ones that you just have to watch, I think some of them require interaction in order to close, and them some of them have multiple ‘x’ buttons you have to w
6. [R31] Tiny Tower 1/5 · US Ads are unbearable: It makes no sense that for a game that forces so many ads down your throat they are so unbearable. Half of them are broken and about other mobile games where u have to sit and watch a screen for 2 minutes before the X even comes up to remove the ad. Either have 15-30 ads AT MOST or create a different system. It’s supposed to be a chill game to kill a few minutes but what’s the
7. [R64] 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.
8. [R72] 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.
9. [R45] Tiny Tower 2/5 · US Crashes: It crashes dozens of times a day for me. Sometimes as often as every 30 seconds
10. [R51] Tiny Tower 1/5 · US Great game play, bad app: The game itself is good but the app crashes constantly. Like every 30 seconds sometimes.
11. [R108] 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.
12. [R85] The Tower 1/5 · US Ads are broken: The game offers rewards for watching ads, but half the ads are broken and cannot be finished. The only way to exit the ad is to kill the app, in which case you don’t get the rewards, and receive a 5 round resume penalty.
13. [R11] Tiny Tower 5/5 · US Fantastic and Fair game: Great mechanics, and never p2w. Very fair and free for all players. Great ad support. Runs very well.
14. [R103] The Tower 1/5 · US Pay to win: The community mods on Reddit delete negative posts. New players beware, I’ve played for a couple years now I believe but if you think you’re going to make any progress getting into high tiers without giving over thousands of dollars, you’re wrong. And even if you do (give $$$$), you’re still thousands away from features they lock deep in this game behind thousands more dollars.
15. [R94] 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
16. [R2] Tiny Tower 5/5 · US Can’t get enough: I’m addicted I love the games pixel art and the concept of the tower I love this game and will continue to support the team thank you so much nimblebit!
17. [R62] The Tower 5/5 · US This game is very fun and addicting: the Discord is very helpful. They are the reason I have even progressed and the game is very fun and once you figure out all the mechanics like the cards and damage, it gets very easy and fun fast
18. [R119] The Tower 5/5 · US Great idle game with the best community design for a mobile game: Every upgrade feels meaningful, and progression is all about long-term planning rather than spending. My favorite part, though, is the guild system. New players and day-one veterans can be in the same guild because everyone contributes through daily activity instead of raw account power. That creates a genuinely helpful community wh
19. [R50] Tiny Tower 5/5 · US Great game: I used to play this back 2014 when I was going to college. I started playing again and I love it still. Completely free, great for relaxing. The only thing I’d like to see change is the color choices, customization choices could be increased (hair styles, animals, hats, etc) and maybe more versatility in floors you can build, or to be able to move your Bitizens to different residenti