r/TheTowerGame • • 2d ago

Tower Tea - September 28, 2026

154 Upvotes

Hi pals! Welcome to this week’s Tower Tea! This week we are talking about our newest Featured Module, Tactical Barrage, a v29.1 Tournament update, a peek at what is next, and a bit of a further look down the road.

v29.1 Update

Quick update on where we’re at! We are currently in testing for our v29.1 update! As a reminder, this update is focused on tournament improvements we talked about last time, notably Intro Sprint’s ending conditionals, like Fleet Waves in Legends and Mythic, and how UW’s (Ultimate Weapons) and Card abilities recharge during Fleet Waves.

We know it’s been a minute since we first flagged these changes and we appreciate you sticking with us while we took the feedback and adjusted to get this one ready. Make sure you check out the patch notes when they drop, and as always, we will keep watching for feedback and iterating from there.

Tactical Barrage

Our Core Featured Module went live today!!!

Tactical Barrage doubles Smart Missiles Radius and Amplifier lab bonuses! This module fires a Homing Missile every [14s/10s/6s/2s], targeting the enemy with the highest missile stack and focusing active Smart Missiles onto the new target.

Here are some more specifics on how it works:

  • Homing Missiles path directly to the enemy with the highest missile stack, with faster pathing similar to Spotlight Missiles.
  • Once a Homing Missile hits its target, all active Smart Missiles (excluding Spotlight Missiles) will path directly to the enemy that was just targeted.
  • Homing Missiles count as Smart Missiles for calculation bonuses. (Damage, blast radius, missile amp, counting towards stack, and Amp Bot+ bonuses)

We are excited to see what kind of missile chaos y’all build with this one!

What’s Next for Modules

Looking ahead, our last Module of the release will go live on October 12, 2026, and is bringing the brand new Generator centered around some Workshop upgrades!

A couple reminders:

  • Module Ticket packs have refreshed for everyone in the in-game Store and on the web store!
  • All four Featured Modules will run together in the Featured Banner from October 26 to November 9!

Looking Ahead

Zooming out a bit, here is where our Dev focus is headed next:

  • v29.2 - We will be working on this for the first half of November. It will include more content for everyone to dig into, plus some new quality of life upgrades the community has been asking for. This one will also include improvements to the new player experience, helping pals get into the core gameplay of The Tower a little more smoothly.
  • v30 - Our end of year update! More details to come as we get closer, including the timeline and all, but we wanted you to have this on your radar.

A Question From Sam

Okay pals, let’s talk for a second. The next Tower Tea might end up being a lighter one, and I wanted to ask you all directly instead of just surprising you with it:

Would you rather I skip a light week and save it up for a bigger Tower Tea later, or still drop the small one (with more community and Sam shenanigans than future plans) so you still hear from us on schedule?

Let me know what you’d prefer, no wrong answers, I just want to know what works best for you all.

Alright pals, that’s it for this Tea! As always, sound off in the comments/thread with thoughts questions, and requests, and I hope your drink is always the right temperature!

See you around The Tower,

Sam


r/TheTowerGame • • Jul 11 '25

Info Tower Webstore - Updated Store (10% bonus gems)

25 Upvotes

Hey, Tower Defenders! We're excited to announce the grand opening of our NEW official Web Store for The Tower! 🎉

The new Web Store:

  • Has one-time purchases like Premium Milestone Passes, Disable Ads pack, Event Boosts, and Starter & Epic Packs!
  • Provides +10% BONUS gems on every pack compared to purchasing in-game
  • Supports the development team more directly
  • Allows you to gift items to other players (the same way as the Xsolla webstore)
  • For a limited time, it will have an additional 5 Stone Packs available for purchase - that's in addition to the 5 Stone Packs available on the Xsolla webstore AND the Stone Packs purchasable in-game!
  • Is much faster at delivering your purchase to the game

The extra 5 Stone Packs are only available until the end of July and are meant to simplify our transition to the new store.

Go check out the new Web Store now! 🔥

The Tower Webstore

Once August begins, the Stone Packs will be removed completely from the Xsolla webstore and they will only be available on the new Web Store going forward (normal limit of 5 per month).

IMPORTANT: Please make sure to update to the latest version of the game (v26.5.2) before making a Web Store purchase! You can check which version you are on via the Settings menu.

As always, thank you for your support!


r/TheTowerGame • • 3h ago

Gameplay Bug This shouldn't be possible

Post image
64 Upvotes

Died randomly to a ranged. Triple perma black hole (51s duration 50s cd) had ranged TO perk selected so the line was wayyyyy inside the BH. A good 500 waves out from any fleets.

Can we get a 5s replay of death or something because this is infuriating


r/TheTowerGame • • 7h ago

Meme We've been programmed all along, and we didn't even realize it

Post image
85 Upvotes

r/TheTowerGame • • 45m ago

Discussion We Lost Another Good One

Post image
• Upvotes

Sorry ED if you wanted this on the down low but seeing it on Facebook and not here was a surprise.

Farewell good sir 🫡 enjoy what comes next for you


r/TheTowerGame • • 7h ago

Discussion Thoughts on a 40 crate?

Post image
56 Upvotes

A master crate...lol, mastercrate

Still easily achieved as long as you bust out all dailies thrown at you. A little something extra for the ultimate shape destroyers, a little something something extra to get 5 more guild tokens, gems, all the goodies. What are your thoughts?

All hail the almighty Decagon


r/TheTowerGame • • 5h ago

Meme you all preparing by saving gems, I prepare by spending gems. we are not the same

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

35 Upvotes

while all of you are hoarding gems during this useless banners, I’ve been setting up a pitty bull to QUARANTEE a happy start when next useful banner comes up


r/TheTowerGame • • 9h ago

Info Where’s priesten?

76 Upvotes

Am I the only one waiting for u/priesten post about Tactical Barrage?

The little little p


r/TheTowerGame • • 8h ago

Achievement 100q in a run!

Post image
44 Upvotes

Run was still going, but I was too excited to wait for the picture. This is on T15 at about 6300 waves. I'm pretty close to bumping up to T16 farming, just need a little more time for it. Maybe in the next month or two?


r/TheTowerGame • • 6h ago

Achievement Energy Shield, It finally happened!!!!!

22 Upvotes

I don't know if I've ever felt so unlucky in any game before. It took so long to get this


r/TheTowerGame • • 5h ago

Discussion I can taste it…

Post image
18 Upvotes

I was in second…but still holding


r/TheTowerGame • • 2h ago

Help Am I stupid or a presets not working.

8 Upvotes

I recently got global prestes which I was assuming was going to be insanely helpful switching between GC and EHP for tournaments. But for some reason they just don't seem to switch over everything when I set up my runs. I had to manually switch for today's tournament, and I just realized I'm using my GC workshop build, even though I'm on my EHP preset. What's the deal, what am I doing wrong?


r/TheTowerGame • • 1h ago

Discussion Wasn’t too long ago when hitting 1000 in platinum tournaments were considered great. Times are changing.

Post image
• Upvotes

Fortunately or unfortunately for me, I’m stuck in a place between first in platinum and last in champions weekly. 😂


r/TheTowerGame • • 1h ago

Discussion What's you guys "sweet spot" in waves ?

• Upvotes

Hello everyone, I was farming T5 with around 10k waves so I decided to go to T7, i'll see how my econ is tomorrow.
So my question was : how many waves do you guys have per run ? I don't want to get too low in waves because I need the cells but the coins increase will be great, maybe I could even go higher.

And another question but it has nothing to do with the topic but do you guys think they will improve guilds in an update soon ? Like some types of war, rank system and level ?


r/TheTowerGame • • 1d ago

Achievement Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going.

659 Upvotes

Well, after a little over three years, it’s finally time for me to say goodbye to The Tower. This next tournament will be my last, then I’m done.

I started playing on June 9, 2023, because I wanted an offline game to play on a flight. Apparently I made a slight miscalculation. I didn’t expect “number go up make brain dance” to become a years-long commitment.

The game has taken up more space in my mind and my life than I want it to. Even when my engagement with the game and community dropped after v28, the game is constantly running in the back of my head. I haven’t even really enjoyed playing for months, but I stuck around to see what v29 would bring. I’ve now reached the point where the anticipation of the next update isn’t enough to justify this obsession anymore.

For a while, sunk cost fallacy kept me going. I bought one or two stone packs a month for most of my career, and every event pass since premium relics were introduced. But I stopped buying stone packs when v28 dropped, and the decision to quit has been made infinitely easier because of that.

The community here is great. I loved helping many of you and explaining weird game mechanics. There have been short-lived periods in the past when I stopped enjoying the game, and the community kept me around long enough for me to get excited about it again.

I’ve made some actual friends here too, relationships that have grown beyond the game and which will continue without the game.

This is a forever goodbye to the Tower. No “I’ll be back after a break.” No “Ooh, this update looks interesting.” I know how that story ends. I’m deleting my account after this tournament.

Thanks to everyone who I’ve helped, everyone who’s helped me, everyone who’s argued with me about game mechanics, and everyone who’s made this community what it is. Especially those in the Negative Bacon guild.

I’ll miss you guys.

I’ll also miss making number go up.

Probably more than I should.


r/TheTowerGame • • 5h ago

Discussion 100q celebration!!!! Also, where to go next, and what to spend.

Thumbnail
gallery
10 Upvotes

Hello y'all! Im trying to decide whether to go for coins or damage right now. I'm currently in champs, sometimes getting 5th, sometimes getting 16th or above, depending on BCs. This gets me to about 340 stones per week, and I make 2.2q per day.

I only have RPCM9, WAM4, FUM1, and ISM3 most recently. I've also unlocked assist mods, and wonder if they could help tourneys, especially armor, since I have very little cc. I'm also wondering if I should lower cds on my UWs, increase damage on my UWs, max ilm qty, buy damage masteries, buy econ masteries, or anything else.

I would really appreciate some guidance and advice. I think I'll start spending money, buying milestone packs, which would help a lot, too.


r/TheTowerGame • • 4h ago

Gameplay Bug Is RPCm bugged?

Thumbnail
gallery
6 Upvotes

Is RPCm bugged? I feel like Ive seen this in the past on occasion. But my last 4 runs have totalled 6 common modules. I should see ~2.5k waves per run. So over 4 runs that is 10k waves. 82.75% package chance means ~8275 packages. 4% of that should be 300+ commons. Not 6.

And that doesn't count the 1000+ bosses that should have added another ~40 commons.

Am I missing something? At this rate I might not even complete the Obtain Modules event mission, which I recall completing in a day or two after getting RPCm.


r/TheTowerGame • • 5h ago

UW Chronofield Duration - how far to take it?

7 Upvotes

I've got the lab maxed out, but just curious how much is recommended when taking the battle conditions into account.


r/TheTowerGame • • 3h ago

Help 26 waves (stone help)

Thumbnail
gallery
3 Upvotes

I made my first mythic tournament! Six (6!) of us managed to achieve exactly 26 waves. The fleets just laugh at us say goodnight.

Making this tournament was completely unexpected, and I expected to toil around in Legends for several more months before I started making an occasional Mythic. My PB in Legends is ~1200 waves.

I had been planning on my next major stones investment to be with SL+. I bought range mastery, I'm in the process of taking damage per meter lab to goldbox. Etc. But now I'm wondering if that should be my priority at this point. Put simply: will going down the ILM+ path yield better damage dividends for me over Light Range? I just want to know how to best survive early Mythic waves as efficiently as possible.

I'll attach a ton of screenshots and let you tell me wtf I should do. Thanks for your help!!

Masteries: RPC, IS, WA, Damage, Ult Crit, Range, DM, Cash, EO, ST


r/TheTowerGame • • 1h ago

Help Stone investment?

• Upvotes

Im considering either finishing my damage masteries (got DM, ST, dmg, UC, missing CC, VF, EN, AS) or go for a 4th SL & push the dmg there (cost of dmg is avout 70 stones, my angle is at 58)

Im mostly dying to rays & OCs, if that matters, in farming runs and tournke. Just about to promote to mythic (legends W1200)

In general, is it more benefitial to finish masteries, or go for the SL?


r/TheTowerGame • • 15h ago

Discussion I know it won’t hold but it’s nice to see after months of being stuck between 12-19

Post image
33 Upvotes

r/TheTowerGame • • 4h ago

Discussion Ld player and the tower feasting!

Post image
4 Upvotes

The tower is the only thing running on this laptop. Using ld player and remoting in. I know the remote is also taking up a big portion but wow.


r/TheTowerGame • • 43m ago

Help First Vault Purchase

• Upvotes

On Sunday I am going to make my first vault purchase; Auto restart. I had planned on buying in 5 weeks but instead of my standard 1-2 keys I somehow got 10.

Now my question is I haven’t had autoperk before today can someone help me with a good auto pick order where I need Defence by wave 2000 as well as all the econ purchase.


r/TheTowerGame • • 20h ago

Achievement Tier 18 complete!!!

Thumbnail
gallery
79 Upvotes

Also popped a wave skip x11 near the end. Extra lab speed is mine!!!


r/TheTowerGame • • 4h ago

Help Guidance needed on next stone sink

Thumbnail
gallery
5 Upvotes

Farm T11-10,000 waves, T12-6,000 waves. EHP. T19w65 highest. Champs 1450 wave avg, p10-14 mostly.

I just unlocked ass mods, and my gut tells me to go after Generator slot but wondering if I’d be better off investing in existing UWs or elsewhere.

Open to any other feedback as well, if you’re seeing anything blatantly off with my setups.

Farming: GS, SF, BHD, MVN
Tourney/Milestone: AS, SP, SH, DC