Tower 57
Skip · Multiplayer · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 4.5h 24h to 100%
- Value
- $2.66/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 825 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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 57 is a fast-paced neo-retro shooter where cooperation is as important as your ammo capacity. As a member of an extraordinary task force fight your way through a dieselpunk megatower and uncover its hidden secrets.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 260, Radeon HD 5770, 1024 MB, Shader Model 3.0, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 73 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. Nuclear Throne ($11.99, scores 88) outscores it, and so does Polygoneer ($4.99, scores 35). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Tower 57
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 72 against 64 percent.
This site sampled 242 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 24, 5.3 times as much.
The drop-off
63% start to 6% 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
What players say
Enter the Gungeon, story mode. Pretty fun, but it was upsetting to learn that the achievements are bugged.
1 more review, not recommended
The base idea seems great but the game is not.. I have lost hour of progress because of the bad save system.. It was fun for 2 hours.. not more.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Tower 57 scores 13/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/530950/tower-57Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.