Tower Escape
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.6h
- Value
- $13.32/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 415 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Tower Escape is a reverse tower defense game, where instead of defending against incoming enemies, you play the baddies and guide your minions to the exit. Recruit a team of minions, and collect powerful gems and relics that make each run unique.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 38 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heretic's Fork ($9.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Spin Hero ($7.99, scores 28).
More about Tower Escape
None of the 360 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 122 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
At 0.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
96% start to 3% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 01:50 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Little game? I see nothing little about it. Yes, it has a compact loop and doesn't waste your time with micromanagement fluff and narrative bull. But the vast array of cards to unlock, synergies to explore, and strategies to try! This game stands to me on equal terms with masterpieces like Rift Wizard, Gnomes, He Is Coming, and Slay the Spire, all of which I consider, each in its own genre, among the greatest modern...
1 more review, not recommended
The game starts in 720p, which is a strange first impression. The second thing I did was turn off the music because it was so bad I couldn't stand listening to it for more than a minute. The gameplay just isn't fun. Instead of a simple reverse tower defense, you build a "snake" that serves as the path for your minions to follow. You can twist and turn it through the dungeon, but it only makes everything...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tower Escape scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2009860/tower-escapeReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.