Secret Tower : 500F (RPG) for Android

No direction and so far I haven’t seen any instructions on how to get equipment. Clearly paid to win since about $20 is enough to get you one ten summons and you don’t get any equipment as you go up each floor or at least not in the first 70 floors I’ve played. Even worse? You only get maybe a few hundred coins every run through of the floors which isn’t enough to level up your character(s). Don’t bother playing this game.

Needs less randomization when upgrading heros already summoned, and some graphical variety, but otherwise this is fun. Disabling ads at a very low cost is also a plus.

Too much adds The developer is aim for your wallet but lacking in creativity. Bottom line is don’t waste time on this game.

It is an interesting idle game. You set up your team and that is the base stats. A team to go into tower consists of up to 4 characters. All leveling inside the tower will be reset once you are defeated and leave the tower. You gain 1 key every 100 floors in the tower. The key is used to fight world boss. You gain a random equipment by defeating a world boss. The world boss will be stronger once it is defeated. Sometimes the strength of world boss jumps substantially. Equipments gained from world boss are added to base stats. You can have up to 10 characters in a team to fight world boss. The parts I see as flaws are in different places in game. First the random equipments gained from world boss is random toward lower grade even with much stronger world boss. So it is extremely rare to find a better equipment. Second, the strength of world boss jumps every couple of being defeated. This is unrealistic because your character strength after leveling is linear. Third, once you defeat a world boss, it gets stronger. The only way to reset it back to its original level is to spend 1,000 gems. Forth, evolving a character is extremely expensive. You need to max level that char. Then you need more max chars as ingredient to evolve that char. Even evolving a 1* char requires 2 other max chars. Fifth, character best base stats come from its avatar. The best avatar with the best stats looks like from Phantasy Star art. These avatars are rare when you summon. If you get one, don’t sell them back even it is a 1*. Sixth, it is an idle game type that you need to leave it on running. Worse, it takes a very long time each run if your max floor is high. This type of game ruins your device battery real fast. Last but not least, the IAP is crazy high and there is only 1 IAP. It costs $100 for the IAP. You get 25k gems and 5m coins with ad removal. Even though the items from IAP is quite a normal price, it is like a push to sale in order to get the cost back real quick for the devs right now. I know that they may come out with different cheaper packages for IAP, this initial offer demonstrates their intention which is cash cow. With the 6th and 7th reasons, I deduct 2 stars from this game review. The first 5 reasons, I can live with though.

Good games