Tower of Mask

You are the latest fired member of Slipknot. Thrown into the death pit, you somehow survive. Now you must climb your way up through the ten levels of the tower while the other discarded beings will try to arrange your demise. Do not waver and focus on your goal... reach the highest point and exact your revenge on Corey Taylor and Clown. Tower Of Mask is a fantastic dungeon crawler with elements of survival horror. The graphics have style, the sound design is good and the gameplay is addictive. The game will take you around 10 hours to complete and I think that is enough, it does not overstay it's welcome. I loved finding all of the secrets, collecting hidden weapons, artifacts and learning about the lore behind nu metal. The only downside for me are the puzzles... some of them are cryptic and I feel like you could easily remove two hours of my game time if they were actually coherent (or maybe I'm just dumb, I love Limp Bizkit's music after all). To sum it all up, I highly recommend this title, might be my fav dungeon crawler tbh. Do not sleep on this, you will regret it. Now excuse me as Corey and Clown have some royalties they owe me as I escaped the tower and put on the mask of the IRS. They will pay.

Combines action DRPG gameplay with japanese folk horror aesthetics and it works really well. Very recommended especially for fans of the Grimrock games.

Really neat dungeon crawler, has cool enemy designs and combat is fun enough, puzzles become a little tiresome but they don't take that long to do

[h2] Главные отличия от Legend of Grimrock (LoG): [/h2] [list] [*] [b]Более динамичный обзор:[/b] хотя базовая свобода передвижения осталась прежней (по клеткам), само управление ощущается живее — теперь можно свободно крутить камерой на 360 градусов и осматриваться прямо на ходу. [*] [b]Прицельная боевая система:[/b] атаковать противников теперь можно точечно, а не просто кликать по силуэту. У врагов появились уязвимые зоны: подбородок, рот, нос, глаза, светящийся мотылек, кристалл и т. д. Кроме того, если позволяет оружие, теперь можно наносить удары по диагонали. [*] [b]Никакого «закликивания» в тупиках:[/b] больше нет ситуаций, когда вас намертво зажимают в углу и бьют как беззащитную грушу. [b]Точный крит по слабой точке оглушает врага и позволяет мгновенно поменяться с ним местами[/b], нанеся урон и тактически выйдя даже из самой безвыходной ситуации. [*] [b]Честная баллистика:[/b] метать предметы теперь можно под абсолютно любым углом и на любое расстояние, полностью контролируя траекторию броска. [*] [b]Удобный поиск секретов:[/b] в отличие от классики жанра, здесь секретные кнопки теперь отчетливо видны в темноте, что значительно облегчает их поиск. [/list]

Really short and sweet game. In the past I have bounced off other 1st person dungeon crawlers, this game has made me want to revisit them and revise my opinions on them. The puzzles ranged from fairly easy to medium complexity but the latter ones did enough to make you feel great for solving them. I quite liked the dance of combat, though I think the charge mechanic could probably have been built up a bit more. I did find that it was useful in some instances that felt like ambushes to push through and make space but other than that sometimes I wouldn't feel like it was necessary. Overall really solid job and I hope that this game was successful enough that, if the dev is so inclined, they can continue to revise this or work on something new.

Quick Summary: Very much a hidden gem. A puzzle solving, action oriented first person dungeon crawler that is so much better than it looks from the outside and is simply a lot of fun to play. -See Below for Deeper Review- Gameplay: 10 floors of dungeon crawler goodness. The game is first person with a left click to swing, right click to block or use whatever item is in you're other hand in real time game, but it's also the classic grid based system all done fluidly. You can dodge attacks, block, even later get some long distance weaponry. There are level ups and with each one you get 3 stat points to point into you're usual STR,AGI,DEX etc. Everything you can do the enemies can as well. The puzzles are all fun and never overly to complex that a bit of time wouldn't let you solve, mostly put item on a switch or watch a pattern and move to the pattern style. There's equipment items, such as armor, "masks" and weapons. With the weapons having a durability function forcing you to swap out so often. The gameplay isn't ground breaking, but what's there clicks, and clicks well to the point it's just nice to play. Storyline: It kind of faulters here. There's a tower with 10 floors and you're climbing the tower to get out, and everyone's wearing masks. There's a lot of ambiguous text and information. Most of the storyline is told through scrolls you find on walls with a bit of words that sometimes give quotes or a message from another adventurer. I wouldn't say it's the games strong suit, it could also be a translation thing? Graphics: Be prepared to see the dungeon style walls and reused statues for environments, but the lighting and awesomely unique mask designs stand out. The graphics while nothing to write home about are something still that gives you this feeling of excitement going through all 10 floors. It feels like a tower/dungeon experience. The masks go from the grotesque to the whimsical, to even the strangely creepy. It will have you going forward just to see what type you're fighting next. Sound/Music: The sound effects are stellar for a indie team. The sounds of the fountain in particular always gave me a sense of relief when I heard it near by to be able to save. There is no music, said for in a few short bits, it's a mostly quiet affair with footsteps, groans of the masks and weapons clanging and it's actually fantastic for it. Final Thoughts: This has made me want to play more dungeon crawlers again. I was always a fan, but this was a great cross over between what felt like a soul-like, a dungeon crawler, a puzzle game and a experience. Such a small dev put out such a simple fun of a RPG mini game all for under $11. I clocked in at just under 8 hours and I didn't even find every secret. This could easily be a 10 hour game in the end. I look forward to and hope the dev's put out more. I also sincerely hope more people find and play this truly hidden gem of a game.

It felt like a game made for kids or people who are not really into games. Maybe I just needed to keep playing but, honestly, it's really boring because there's basically NO challenge at all. Every single enemy goes down to the same basic strategy - back off and hit or just spam hit hit hit. Even though I liked the design and the masks especially - honestly that's the only reason I decided to play since I'm obsessed with that. But the way the gameplay was made is just not for me at all. Wishing the artist all the best though. As an experience it's kind of fun but only for about half an hour because I think turn-based 3D games just need to stay in the past.

a cool and unique feature this game has is guns that you can shoot bad guys with

I haven't played many dungeon crawlers, so I was out of my wheelhouse here. I really liked this one and it's a good entry point into the genre! I've played maybe one turned based dungeon crawler and this one is active combat. It's satisfying to dodge, clobber, and strike the weak points of enemies. The physic based puzzles are tight too, in combination with the active system makes some of them interesting. Cool game, I'll put some other dungeon crawlers on my watchlist.