Tower of Guns
Fair · Roguelike · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.74. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVidia Geforce 275 GTX +512mb memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in May 2021. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 91 in the 13 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $3.74 at 75 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 42 percent on value. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heavy Bullets ($9.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats MOTHERGUNSHIP ($6.24, scores 40).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 4.6 times as much.
The drop-off
30% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Fun bullet hell fps from cool indie devs. Got this on PS plus back in the day and am happy to be able to come back to it on PC.
PC port is a little ruff around the edges but the game play is just how I remember it on PS4.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Tower of Guns scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266110/tower-of-gunsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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