After nearly 9000 hours, two years of being a Patreon supporter, over a year of being a proud Supporter Pack purchaser, and various life-changing events that will never be forgotten thanks to this game; I still cannot recommend this game in good faith to anyone. From issues related to the community or the game itself, there's a lot to say that can't fit into a Steam review due to a character cap.

Tower Unite by far has one of the best drag-and-drop editors in any game I've ever played because the skill floor for making something great is infinitely lower than most games with any kind of editor. The low skill floor and seemingly limitless skill ceiling for User-Generated Content (UGC) is what makes it shine in ways that simply no other social game has. That being said, that's as far as my praise goes.
In a little over 3 years of playing (est. February 2022), the game on a performance level hasn't felt too much different from when I started. However, that might have to do with my consistent playtime throughout those 3 years. Some features within the game have felt half-baked for quite some time whereas some bugs seemingly get fixed due to a hyperfixation within a certain area of the game. I'm sure this isn't intentional, but it just stinks to see certain content and bugs take higher priority and others get lost in the sea of suggestions and bug reports. Some of the content has been left untouched for more than the 3 years that I've been playing the game, and it really leaves a sour taste since there doesn't seem to be a consistent direction the game's development is going. No matter how many roadmaps are created, it honestly makes me take any "plans" with a grain of salt considering they have yet to fulfill all their promises with their Kickstarter/IndieGoGo campaign—even if some of those promises seem relatively simple to accomplish overall.
The minigames, game worlds, and plaza games have been once described to me as a battle of mediocrity, and I think that's a really great way of describing how it can feel at times. All Game Worlds are based off existing games you can find in other mediums, sometimes executed with better performance overall. With issues like desync, rubber-banding, and more in many of these games, it's hard to keep a lobby alive—especially in the PvP-based games. The most popular game worlds (Minigolf and Ball Race), according to their most recently published survey results on the matter [forums.pixeltailgames.com], are often the most simplistic ones and have been done a plethora of times by other developers—the only major difference being the loyal dedication that people have to those games and of course the maps. Games found in the plaza, such as bumper cars, often feel like they were made in 2012 because of their instability and rubber-banding issues, and I empathize for those who were a backer of this game expecting much better performance in the year of 2025. I'm sure the developers will continue hack at it and hopefully make some form of optimizations to the game itself, but the sour taste is hard to ignore.
In general, this game doesn't feel like it lives up to any standard you should hold a game released in 2025 to. To say that this game in the 2025 market is underwhelming if an understatement in itself, and it seems like it struggles to keep up with modern-day game development overall.
In my time, I have felt that the developers as a team are pretty biased and unfair with their approach to managing their own community. I'd say that it's atrociously unprofessional, and they seem to always have a reason as to why any issues aren't their fault. At times, it feels like the blame always gets shifted on the big corporation if not the user itself for anything that can and does go wrong within the game or its community. Whether if it's consistent issues connecting to the plaza or condos that were introduced with an update (Steam Issue®) or if it's YouTube videos that don't play due to the use of an outdated codec (YouTube issue), it seems like they almost never take enough accountability to say in a big official post that they don't know or understand why an issue is occurring or what they're talking about. If they do say they don't understand why something is happening, it's typically in the sea of sloppy messages that resides in their official Discord if not in a haphazardly phrased manner on stream [www.twitch.tv]. This game feels like it runs just as well as it would have in the high school daydream that Tower Unite originally was born as in 2006, and they as a team only have themselves to blame for that. I'm sure there are reasons for all the problems and issues they do have, and most of which we'll ever get to see due to how personal some of them may actually be. However, it'll always leave a bad taste in my mouth to see each of these updates always requiring a hotfix immediately afterwards because SOMETHING broke that went untested, only to then ask for more money from its consumers without providing many incentives with doing so. I'm sure this might sound harsh and mean-spirited, but you simply just don't get a sustainable free money from making a live service game. You need to work harder for it, and take responsibility of your shortcomings and pitfalls. This is not a dig to them as individual people, and please don't go out of your way to harass them as individual people. I'm sure they're all wonderful people in their own right. However, I can't morally stand by many of the actions and lack thereof when it comes how they treat their game and their community.
Much like any social game, the actual playerbase itself is pretty egregious; the only part that makes it worse is that it's tight-knit and small enough for everything to go around like it's a rumor in a small town—making it infinitely harder to avoid. In a social game, I'm expecting to run into the general slew of nasty people: racists, homophobes, pedophiles, groomers, lonely men searching for women to prey on, doxxers; the typical egangsters you can expect on the internet. What I don't expect from a social game is to have the developers carry that same weight of responsibility that a separate moderation team should have; I also don't expect them as a team to delegate a majority of community issues into the hands of the community itself by primarily relying on player reports and not much else at all. There are some seriously disgusting gross conduct and illegal activity on this game that make socializing on this game dangerous, and the community itself tends to not report greater serious issues when seeing it. Typically, the answer as to why players don't report more serious matters is, as quoted by former friends "They don't want to get their hands dirty." When players see someone who takes enough time to create churches and general hate-shrines towards someone they don't like, they typically find it better to gossip about it rather than reporting such toxic behavior to the proper authorities. Simultaneously, players also find it more convenient to report others when there are petty squabbles, fights, and stupid drama between others. Furthermore, it seems a lot of these drama starters, troublemakers, and generally bad actors are either friends with the developers or mutual friends with the developers; this issue is most prevalent and actively noticeable in the official Tower Unite Discord server. It doesn't matter if they specifically call you slurs, accuse you of being a bigot just off of "vibes" alone, or if they accuse you of harassing them without speaking in month—despite consistent warnings they receive from other developers. People like these get away with it.
- Only play with friends.
- Be a nobody.