The Deadly Tower of Monsters
Skip · Action · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 1024MB or ATI Radeon HD 5750/6670 1024MB, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was February 2018. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 62 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Distant Space 2 ($0.99, scores 58) and BLACKHOLE ($8.99, scores 70) both outscore it.
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 16 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 286 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 211 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 3% 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
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The Deadly Tower of Monsters scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/353700/the-deadly-tower-of-monstersThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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