Appeasing, anticipation, teamwork
I grew up playing the original Dark Tower game. In comparison, these are two distinct, very separate games.
What the creators of this game did was take some core parts of the original game, dream up a new, better, and different version that includes co-op and competitive, tons of scenarios to play, and more. They really added what the OG was missing. Please note that the OG game came out ages ago where technology was vastly different, so it’s still extraordinarily amazing in its own way.
I love the game. Idk if the app is made by the same people, I’m assuming it is, but what a wonderful idea that you made real. I see the passion in it!!
What the creators of this game did was take some core parts of the original game, dream up a new, better, and different version that includes co-op and competitive, tons of scenarios to play, and more. They really added what the OG was missing. Please note that the OG game came out ages ago where technology was vastly different, so it’s still extraordinarily amazing in its own way.
I love the game. Idk if the app is made by the same people, I’m assuming it is, but what a wonderful idea that you made real. I see the passion in it!!
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Good Companion
All in all the app is working fine.
My main complaints:
- Music is not playing in all phases
- there is no German language
- there is no overview of events and cards
My main complaints:
- Music is not playing in all phases
- there is no German language
- there is no overview of events and cards
Fantastic addition to the game
I love this and the integration with the game is stunning! I have gobbled up all the expansions to marvel at them and am working up slowly to playing them.
I have some suggestions to offer:
Add a player counter, or better yet name entry. The status screen shows month and turn, but I kept recounting to confirm who is the next player. As it just continues through the cycle, showing player feels easier than keyboard entry.
Side note: is the skull drop to end turn the very last thing the current player does, and any events refer to the next player?
Sometimes I found back arrow was not always there, and seemingly not in logical places where return to previous state was impossible. We had a monster placement and my friend flew through the screen about where to place it. Not a huge deal, we picked a—cough, favorable placement, cough—and moved on. But either more thorough back support (and I don’t mean lumbar here) or a way to view past messages would help.
Another time a player started on the wrong monster type for attacking. Easy enough to do, but hard to recover from, or at least I could not figure it out.
The game is just amazing and everyone I show it to loves it. Some are advancing with me to more complex scenarios. I know many surprises await me.
Quick notes: I love the haggle die and the treasure which keeps the merchant face from blocking reinforce. Brilliant fun. And I love the varied banner actions. And the extra skulls in case one is lost. I love it all, and those features jump out.
Restoration Games is a Master class on doing it right, if my shelf of their products is any indication. I love the expansion support for all of them, and Thunder Road I am nodding at you here. Bravo and vroom, vroom!
Congrats on a great game and a cool app to go with it. See you at the Dark Tower!
If you are taking requests, Milton Bradley had older land, sea, and air battle games (Mission command). I’d love to see what the team could do with that. Or MB Dogfight.
I have some suggestions to offer:
Add a player counter, or better yet name entry. The status screen shows month and turn, but I kept recounting to confirm who is the next player. As it just continues through the cycle, showing player feels easier than keyboard entry.
Side note: is the skull drop to end turn the very last thing the current player does, and any events refer to the next player?
Sometimes I found back arrow was not always there, and seemingly not in logical places where return to previous state was impossible. We had a monster placement and my friend flew through the screen about where to place it. Not a huge deal, we picked a—cough, favorable placement, cough—and moved on. But either more thorough back support (and I don’t mean lumbar here) or a way to view past messages would help.
Another time a player started on the wrong monster type for attacking. Easy enough to do, but hard to recover from, or at least I could not figure it out.
The game is just amazing and everyone I show it to loves it. Some are advancing with me to more complex scenarios. I know many surprises await me.
Quick notes: I love the haggle die and the treasure which keeps the merchant face from blocking reinforce. Brilliant fun. And I love the varied banner actions. And the extra skulls in case one is lost. I love it all, and those features jump out.
Restoration Games is a Master class on doing it right, if my shelf of their products is any indication. I love the expansion support for all of them, and Thunder Road I am nodding at you here. Bravo and vroom, vroom!
Congrats on a great game and a cool app to go with it. See you at the Dark Tower!
If you are taking requests, Milton Bradley had older land, sea, and air battle games (Mission command). I’d love to see what the team could do with that. Or MB Dogfight.
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Italian language?
L’app. è ottima, ma se metteste anche la lingua italiana sarebbe meglio.
Faster to learn than you’d think
I expected this to take ages to learn given how many moving parts there are. But we were up and running in under an hour, and the group (ages nine to 54) was playing without having to check the rule book in less than two hours. It’s complex but surprisingly intuitive.
Of course the real joy for the GenX parents was the Tower, now doing everything you wish your toy from 1984 could do. Including the old start up noise was genius.
The app-driven element was seamless and flawlessly executed.
All around a 10/10 experience!
Of course the real joy for the GenX parents was the Tower, now doing everything you wish your toy from 1984 could do. Including the old start up noise was genius.
The app-driven element was seamless and flawlessly executed.
All around a 10/10 experience!
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New game, old sound.
The game is great, and the app is fine. It does exactly what is required to play the game. However, it could be so much more. The sound from the tower could be improved with better in-built sound. Maybe my next step is to Bluetooth the iPad to a good sound system. That might add to the atmospheric effects significantly.
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Fantastic
The app it’s fantastic and the game awesome! I reccomend to play it!
Awesome game
I have the original game from when I was a kid. The game is much more technologically advanced. It’s a very exciting game and with the mini figures it really stands out. The tower spins and lights up. It even spits skulls out at you. The app keeps track of almost everything else except your character. The game is really well done and thought out. The tower sits in the middle of the board and is very menacing. All-in-all an excellent game.
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Return to Dark Tower
Awesome game. No hiccups or issues that I can tell. A really well thought out game in my opinion. I grew up with the original Dark Tower and I must admit that I like this game more. I hope and wish that they come up with a way to combine both the Covenant and Alliance Expansions so they can be played together. I highly recommend this app and game. Sooo much fun.
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No undo for the final battle step.
We wanted to retreat from the final battle card of the game. We accidentally pressed the confirm button twice, instead of once, triggering game end. Because there is no undo button for that, we wasted hours of play to not be able to see the end of our game. Unacceptable. Don’t make an app-based game if you don’t know how to account for accidental input.
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Expantsion
Cant play both expansion together in app
A few tweaks would make this perfect for me
First things first, this game is AMAZING. The app makes the experience smooth, and adds a lot to the unpredictability of what is going to happen between turns. I love it!
There are two things I want to bring up that would take the app all the way to a five for me:
1. COVENANT EXPANSION TWEAK
We played it with the Covenant expansion last night for the first time. It was super fun, but we made a mistake that we couldn’t reverse. We were so excited to get three Offerings on a building that we immediately built it in the app. We then checked the rules again and realized that you have to go to that space and perform the “Build” action before you add the building to the app and start using it. So we went back to the buildings screen and held the button down to remove the building, which DESTROYED it. That building was lost to us for the rest of the game, with no way to undo the mistake we had made. There needs to be a way for the players to be able to course correct if they did the wrong thing by accident.
2. GARBAGE WEASEL QUEST
For this mission you have to perform the “Quest” action on a space to try to find the informant. In the description for the quest it says something like, “Check for rumors in villages, citadels, and bazaars.” We checked every one of those buildings, all we got were “Dead End” screens. No rumors. No hints. No help at all. After checking a few more random spaces (leaving all other tasks behind to try to find this guy), we gave up and started spamming the engine, checking every single space in the app to see if it glitched or something. We finally find him halfway down the list, on a random location in the middle of the board.
A couple of thoughts crossed my mind here:
A. Were we supposed to get a “rumors” screen somewhere in there? Something that says, “He was last seen in the North” or something like that? If so, this mission is bugged and needs to be fixed.
B. If this is working as intended, I’d recommend taking this mission back and making some tweaks to it. There are 60 spaces on the board where you can “Quest” and only 40-ish turns that the players can take in the whole game. Even if they abandoned everything else (killing monsters, cleansing corruption, doing monthly quests), they still might never find the guy. It was very deflating to try at about 15 different locations without so much as a breadcrumb.
One of the best things about this game is that it’s TOUGH but FUN. This mission wasn’t fun, it was just tedious, and we gave up before we completed it because we weren’t sure if it was glitched or not.
Anyway, thanks for reading. I’m happy to talk further if you have follow up questions.
There are two things I want to bring up that would take the app all the way to a five for me:
1. COVENANT EXPANSION TWEAK
We played it with the Covenant expansion last night for the first time. It was super fun, but we made a mistake that we couldn’t reverse. We were so excited to get three Offerings on a building that we immediately built it in the app. We then checked the rules again and realized that you have to go to that space and perform the “Build” action before you add the building to the app and start using it. So we went back to the buildings screen and held the button down to remove the building, which DESTROYED it. That building was lost to us for the rest of the game, with no way to undo the mistake we had made. There needs to be a way for the players to be able to course correct if they did the wrong thing by accident.
2. GARBAGE WEASEL QUEST
For this mission you have to perform the “Quest” action on a space to try to find the informant. In the description for the quest it says something like, “Check for rumors in villages, citadels, and bazaars.” We checked every one of those buildings, all we got were “Dead End” screens. No rumors. No hints. No help at all. After checking a few more random spaces (leaving all other tasks behind to try to find this guy), we gave up and started spamming the engine, checking every single space in the app to see if it glitched or something. We finally find him halfway down the list, on a random location in the middle of the board.
A couple of thoughts crossed my mind here:
A. Were we supposed to get a “rumors” screen somewhere in there? Something that says, “He was last seen in the North” or something like that? If so, this mission is bugged and needs to be fixed.
B. If this is working as intended, I’d recommend taking this mission back and making some tweaks to it. There are 60 spaces on the board where you can “Quest” and only 40-ish turns that the players can take in the whole game. Even if they abandoned everything else (killing monsters, cleansing corruption, doing monthly quests), they still might never find the guy. It was very deflating to try at about 15 different locations without so much as a breadcrumb.
One of the best things about this game is that it’s TOUGH but FUN. This mission wasn’t fun, it was just tedious, and we gave up before we completed it because we weren’t sure if it was glitched or not.
Anyway, thanks for reading. I’m happy to talk further if you have follow up questions.
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Great game to play, needs tutorials.
This is a great game, I have been making sure to show everyone I can, the game and be able to try it out themselves. The hardest part of explaining the rules is trying to describe how battling foes and questing in dungeons work, along with how you utilize your advantages. I wish there was a tutorial part that lets you show an example on the app how these aspects work without having to start a full game. This is my only suggestion. I stress again I love this game and am trying to get as many people that I can to try it. Those aspects and the advantage system is the first I’ve seen so I’m not use to describing how they work. I would like a tutorial section that you could pick without having to connect to the tower so I can visually show how battles and dungeon diving works in game. This I feel would help bring in more players to the game. I love that the rest of the game is fairly straight forward. I start off my explanation by stating it’s a cooperative game and the three ways to lose. Then go over what you can do on your turn. Most people who at least play games in some form grasp these right away. Looking forward to covenant expansion.
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One thing missing
At the end of a round the tower needs to do a congratulations sound if you win. We all just kinda have to do it ourselves for now. Make it more interactive with more sounds. Hopefully you can add sound files via the app. Maybe not. Game is awesome and already ordered the covenant expansion.
Great game
Our family really likes this game. The tower and the app have worked great for us! So much variety with the different opponents and quests. Highly recommend!
Great app for great game!
Love it. Great game and great app. Hope more levels are added sometime
Storytelling, music, dungeon
I generally like the app very much. I just find it a bit confusing that there is music in every event etc but not during the main game… anyhow, I think the nicest thing would be if the flavour text end the story would be read aloud with a nice voice.
Dungeons rooms could be a bit more indifferent from each other and a bit of storey telling or “making a decision” prompt with different outcomes would be nice..
Dungeons rooms could be a bit more indifferent from each other and a bit of storey telling or “making a decision” prompt with different outcomes would be nice..
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Looking forward to next update
Quality app. Looking forward to what RG change to tighten the game from the app perspective. Certainly a skilled dev team support this app.
Will up rating when update drops and I can review it.
Will up rating when update drops and I can review it.
Lots of fun
Love this app and game. Whole family sat down earlier this evening and we had a blast. Very interactive and the functions were flawless. Would like to see more effects and sounds in the future.
Awesome game
I remember playing the original game way back when. My friends and I played it a ton and really loved it. Fast forward to today and restoration games updated version and you find a game that is better in every way.
If you think of the app and the tower together as a single unit, they take a board game and elevate it into a totally immersive experience.
The game has numerous ultimate foes and monsters that switch game to game. There are different end goals each game. The replayability of this game is quite high. The company plans on keeping the app updated and fresh. At a time in the future if they no longer can keep it updated they plan to release the source code.
This is a game that you will come back to again and again. This might be Restoration Games best game yet. 10/10
If you think of the app and the tower together as a single unit, they take a board game and elevate it into a totally immersive experience.
The game has numerous ultimate foes and monsters that switch game to game. There are different end goals each game. The replayability of this game is quite high. The company plans on keeping the app updated and fresh. At a time in the future if they no longer can keep it updated they plan to release the source code.
This is a game that you will come back to again and again. This might be Restoration Games best game yet. 10/10
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