Review: Tower of Waifus

    Tower of waifus is a match-three styled puzzle game in which you'll have to defeat enemies as you ascend through a tower. Each floor has a different girl trapped in it, and you have to rescue them all by getting stronger, learning spells and defeating all the bosses!

(I'd really like to write a longer description, but... that's all there is. Really)

Technical stuff

    -H subgenre: Pin-up collector, I guess.

    -Playtime: I played for 2 hours, but I played for longer than necessary because I wanted to grind the achievements.

    -Where to get it?: It's on Steam for 1'59€, which I assume amounts to 2$.

    -Does it need a patch for +18 content?: It's a free DLC. Without it, there's no gallery in the game, and you can only see the first phase of the animations, which is suggestive and ecchi, but not H.

    -Languages it comes in: Texts are in English and Simplified Chinese. No voices. Well, there are voices, but they don't say things so it's irrelevant here.

    -DLC's: There's one, Hot Honey, which is the free DLC that unlocks the +18 content.

Fetishes it covers

    Not many. The whole thing is pretty vanilla, and the pin-ups are pretty generic H stuff. Animations featuring basic p.i.v. sex, some object insertion and some oral, but that's about it. The girls in the pin-ups weren't really varied enough to cover any specific fetishes.

Ratings & review

    -Art: 7/10. It's pretty good overall. However, it has a big issue: it's not cohesive at all. The gameplay assets, the enemies and the pin-ups are so wildly different in style, artistically speaking, that even though they're good on their own, they make the game look cheap, rushed and disjointed. The pin-ups have a classic anime style with very detailed coloring, while the enemies have a more cartoonish look with brighter and plainer colors. That aside, I actually like the designs of the enemies way more than I like the designs of the unnamed girls in the pin-ups. They are far more interesting. I think the game would've been way better if the characters in the H animations were the enemies you defeated, but oh well. The pin-ups aren't bad, they're just super forgettable.

    -Gameplay: 5/10. The game knows what it is (a rip-off) and embraces it. The tutorial itself asks you if you've played Mirror or HuniePop before. It's not bad, but it just isn't anything new. To explain how it works a little more: you'll play through a total of 10 stages. These are the 10 floors of the tower. Each floor has one enemy to defeat in match-three style combats, but when you defeat them for the first time, they enter a "second phase" in which they are stronger and you have to defeat them again. When you defeat an enemy (and even if you lose), you'll earn some gold that you can use to level up your stats, buy spells, or buy headstarts before each battle. You'll also unlock gallery content with each victory. This is another problem I have with the game: the gameplay is just as disjointed as the art. The H scenes aren't really part of the gameplay, they're just... a bonus for winning the battles. They don't even have text or story, it's just the pin-ups in the gallery.

    -Story: There isn't one. The story is supposed to be you rescuing the waifus from the tower, and that's it. There's no text, no dialogues, you don't know the girls, you don't know why they're in the tower to begin with, and you don't know why all the enemies are ancient greek/roman gods. All this makes the game feel lazy again. 

    -OST/Sound design: There wasn't much (I think there was only 1 music track, maybe 2), and it was pretty generic stuff.

    -Bugs: Some minor things here and there, but the game works pretty well overall.

    -Fap worth: Not bad, honestly. Some pin-ups were better than others, but the good ones are pretty good material. The pin-ups are animated and have multiple phases. They're voiced too, but it's just generic moans. You can also see screenshots of the animations instead in another section of the gallery, in case you like still images better.

Recommended?

    Hard to say... But I'm more inclined to say no. As good as the pin-ups are, as much as I liked the enemy designs, and as cheap as it is... I didn't really like this game because it feels lazy and rushed. It feels like it has a lot of wasted potential. If only they had put an actual story instead of an excuse, and found a way to make the H part of the gameplay, it would've been a good game. But it's not. The H isn't bad, though, and it's an easy and short game to kill some time.

Final rating is 5'5/10.

Steam page of the game  (link won't work if you aren't logged in Steam).

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the images in this entry. They are there for illustrative purposes only. Credits go to the respective owners