r/TheLostTower

Not a vague "you weren't strong enough." The specific moment where you see the wave coming, you see your build, and you know. That clarity is rare and it's the whole reason the genre works when it works.

Most games hide the reason tbh. Makes you feel like the system is the problem rather than the decision you made three upgrades ago.

Agree or completely wrong?

Not asking what annoys you. The opposite. The mechanic that works so well it should probably be regulated.

For me it's the offline resource return. You open the app after a few hours and there's a pile of things waiting for you. Takes three seconds. Closes the app. Opens it again immediately.

Yours?

Genuine question.

We're getting closer to having something playable and we need real people, not friends or family who will tell us it's great no matter what.

The kind of tester we're looking for is someone who plays idle games or tower defense on mobile, who has actual opinions, and who isn't afraid to say "this part doesn't work for me tbh."

No download link yet. Not ready for that. Just trying to understand if there's interest here before we open anything up.

If that sounds like you, drop a comment !

What kind of mobile games do you play and what usually makes you quit one after a week?

It's not the pay wall. Not the forced ad. Not even the bad update.

It's the moment you open the game and realize you don't have a decision to make.

You just have a button to press. And you press it. And nothing interesting happens. And you close it. And you never open it again.

You didn't even notice it was the last time.

The games that keep people are the ones that always leave something unresolved. A build you haven't tried. A wave you haven't beaten. A question you're still turning over.

What was the last mobile game that actually kept you coming back and what was the thing it kept leaving unresolved?