ActionAdventureIndie
The Deadly Tower of Monsters
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 67% of owners
Steam reviews 89% positive of 1,426
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (35%); after 5h it's 1 in 30 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- Only 67% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,433 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 5.8h for positive, 2.7h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (66.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (25)
- Dramatic rescuer Rescue Dick from the Mega-Gorilla 100%
- Bug off Conquer the Nukular ant hive 41%
- King of the tower Defeat the Mega-Gorilla 35%
- Fell for it Defeat the Mechameleon 28%
- ...to make an omelet Destroy all the mutant dinosaur eggs 27%
- Hoopster Fly through 20 hoops 25%
- Cephalopod slayer Defeat the gigantic mutant octopus 23%
- Good shot Destroy 10 target boards 21%
- With guns blazing Max out 3 projectile weapons 18%
- Shiv-a-saur Kill a large dinosaur with a dagger 17%
- Bad Science Destroy Dr. Schopenstein's replicator 16%
- Pyro-shepherd Guide 10 enemies into flaming turrets 15%
- Collateral damage Kill 3 enemies with parried projectiles 14%
- Super hoopster Fly through 50 hoops 14%
- Bigger sticks Max out 3 melee weapons 14%
- As in games! Kill 10 enemies by jumping on them 13%
- Reach t' captain Reach the captain of the ghost pirate ship 12%
- Explosive efficiency Kill 3 enemies with one landmine 11%
- Show me your moves Parry 20 enemy attacks 9.6%
- Little island Find the castaway ape 8.2%
- Watch out Remove 5 apes with watches from the set 5.5%
- Missing scenes Find 6 missing film reels 4.9%
- Even better shot Destroy 25 target boards 4.2%
- Laundry list Complete all other achievements 3.9%
- Survive Complete 18 waves in survival mode 2.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.