Tokoyo The Tower Of Perpetuity Preview (Steam Early Access)

You find yourself trapped in a mysterious tower – one that transforms its very structure every 24 hours, where you must surpass countless poor fallen souls and make your way to the heretofore unseen top!

Pros:

• Pixel art graphics.
• 298mb Download size.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-windows mode-on/off.
• Opening tutorial level.
• Online leaderboards.
• 2D action platformer gameplay.
• Mod support for both online and offline mods.
• Main hub to access the mods, leaderboards, chat with NPC, and change characters.
• The really good soundtrack in places.
• Every run you pick one of three random items could be a buff, ability or weapon.
• Your goal is to ascend the tower.
• Gimmick-the tower changes every 24 hours. This means every player will be playing the same tower formation every time.
• Pray to a black or white demon which will change the formation of the tower.
• Coins-collect for a score.
• Can see other player tombstones with a brief description of what happened.
• Handy exclamation marker to tell you if enemies are below you.
• Upon death, you choose from a selection of phrases to leave on your tombstone.
• Get rewards every level you progress.
• Has a retro feel to it.
• Attacks-each character has a unique attack and can only be used when your bar is full and only lasts a short time, it regens itself overtime.
• Collect items on the way to change cooldowns, abilities, and the like.
• Your run is automatically uploaded to the leaderboard.
• A list of all found items/buffs are displayed on the screen.
• The score counter and current floor are shown.
• After finishing a floor you get a pop-up of information like coins collected and enemies killed.
• Can get quite addictive.
• Big boss fights.
• Safety floors that give you 3 options for health and mp top-ups or buffs. You cannot be attacked on safe floors.
• Low light floors.

Cons:

• Little in the way of graphic settings.
• Japanese text in places.
• The music and sound effects can be triggering with a lot of beeps and bops some gamers may not like.
• No Steam achievements.
• Can’t change any settings when in-game/on a run.
• Hard to look around a level or drop down onto platforms.
• A lot of figuring it out yourself.
• Very slow starter.
• Can be hard to know what can and cannot kill you.
• Constant difficulty spikes.
• Never sure what you are picking up.
• Very reflex heavy.
• Little rest or ability to regain hearts.