Tower of Time: A Modern Take On RPG Dungeon-Crawling

Time Flies When You're Having Fun! Tower of Time Hits 200,000 Players on Steam! As another year draws to a close, it's time to reflect on the incredible journey we've had with Tower of Time. And what a journey it's been! We're absolutely thrilled to announce that Tower of Time has surpassed 200,000 lifetime total units on Steam alone! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to each and every one of you who has joined us on this adventure. Your support means the world to us, and we're incredibly grateful for your passion for Tower of Time. https://store.steampowered.com/app/617480/Tower_of_Time/ To celebrate this amazing achievement, we're offering a massive discount on Tower of Time for other gamers to grab the game for the incredibly low price of USD 1.99 (or even lower in your local currency). We think now is the perfect time to return to or dive for the first time into the depths of the Tower and experience this unique blend of real-time combat with a tactical pause, deep character development, and a captivating story. But that's not all! We've teamed up with our friends at Anshar Publishing to bring you an incredible RPG Steam bundle! This fantastic bundle includes four amazing games: Tower of Time, Dark Envoy, Zoria: Age of Shattering and Gamedec. It's the perfect opportunity to expand your RPG collection and discover some fantastic new worlds. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39014/Zoria_Age_of_Shattering_x_Dark_Envoy/ Thank you again for your incredible support. Here's to another year of adventure in the Tower of Time! PS We're now setting our sights on a new milestone: 300,000 players! With your continued support, we believe we can reach this goal. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35911/Dark_Envoy__Tower_of_Time/

"Finished 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' and looking for similar games? Discover the best titles that will keep you immersed in the atmosphere of this adventure!" The above is the first paragraph of the article (link below) with a list of interesting alternatives to 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard'. "The dust after the premiere of 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' has settled. Some players were delighted with BioWare's return, while others complain about a few more or less unnecessary elements. However, there is no denying that the game aroused great interest and showed that classic RPGs are still desired by players." https://store.steampowered.com/app/617480/Tower_of_Time/ So, why do we even mention that? The author of the article says (about Tower of Time): "In the texts from this series, I always try to propose something unusual to broaden your horizons. This time it is a slightly older, Polish production. For Event Horizon studio, however, it was a dream debut. The game ('Tower of Time') was warmly received and gained a group of fans. The domestic developer rose to the occasion with an interesting plot. The real-time combat system, in which a tactical approach and good use of spells play an important role, was also very well received. In many respects, there are similarities to 'Dragon Age', even if 'Tower of Time' has a lot of elements borrowed from dungeon crawlers. So I think it's worth considering this option, especially since the other games described in the text are well known and many fans of the genre probably already have them played." You can check the whole article here. And.... what do YOU think? Check 'Tower of Time' for yourself, and if you already did and like it, help as spread the word. Event Horizon Team! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35911/Dark_Envoy__Tower_of_Time/ [Few words of clarification to this post: We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. We understand that discussions about games can be passionate, and we value your feedback. To clarify a few points, the majority of the text in the post is a direct quote from an article by a professional gaming journalist. The article highlighted Tower of Time as an alternative for players interested in games with similarities to Dragon Age: The Veilguard, particularly for those who may have been disappointed by a recent release or are simply looking for something new to play. It wasn't intended as a direct comparison to any specific game or its part. As a small, independent team from Poland, we pour our hearts into our work. We hold the utmost respect for the work of other developers, but any comparisons made in the article do not reflect our values or imply an endorsement of any specific studio or its practices. Being mentioned alongside industry giants like Baldur's Gate III, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an incredible honor. It means a lot to have our game recognized in this way, especially considering the scale and resources of those other titles. We are incredibly proud of Tower of Time and we continue to support it with an intent to reach even more players around the globe. As a small team, continued visibility is vital for us to keep creating games. We hope this clarifies our intentions and that you can understand our perspective. We believe that passionate discussions about games are important, and we appreciate you engaging with us. We also apologize, if we disappointed you in any way.]

Greetings adventurers It's been a while since we last delved into the depths of the Tower, but with the Steam Autumn Sale blazing into existence on November 27th, we simply couldn't resist the urge to share some thrilling news! Prepare yourselves, for Tower of Time is descending to an unprecedented 80% discount! That's right, you can experience this RPG for a pittance, venturing into its depths with a party of champions, uncovering its secrets, and battling its challenging real-time-with-pause combat for a price that's practically a steal! https://store.steampowered.com/app/617480/Tower_of_Time/ Never decided to check Tower of Time? Prepare to be enchanted by:

• A unique combat system: Experience tactical depth with our innovative real-time-with-pause combat, featuring slow-motion and a wealth of powerful abilities.
• A captivating story: Unravel the mysteries of the Tower and the civilization that built it, encountering compelling characters and making impactful choices.
• Deep character development: Build your party from a diverse cast of champions, each with unique skills, talents, and upgrade paths to explore.
• A rich and immersive world: Explore a beautifully crafted world filled with lore, secrets, and challenging encounters.

• Non-linear story: Shape your own destiny with meaningful choices that impact the world and your companions.
• Real-time combat with pause: Engage in fast-paced, tactical battles with a unique blend of real-time action and strategic pausing.
• Unique class system: Develop your characters with a flexible class system that allows for diverse builds and playstyles.
• Online co-op: Team up with a friend to experience the adventure together!

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Changes

• Challenge Arena
• Training Room
• Complete animation overhaul for improved responsiveness
• Reduced bugs and improved game stability
• New unique enemies and random events
• Polished and redesigned cutscenes
• Updated and expanded all skills
• More crafting options

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Changes

• Challenge Arena
• Training Room
• Complete animation overhaul for improved responsiveness
• Reduced bugs and improved game stability
• New unique enemies and random events
• Polished and redesigned cutscenes
• Updated and expanded all skills
• More crafting options

Thank You!

What is Dark Envoy?

Dark Envoy is an RPG-adventure with tactical real-time combat and online co-op. If you're interested in trying out our new game and help us with balancing the combat, please join our Discord. We'll be happy to share access to the private build. - drop a msg on #playest-access. This build contains all of RPG systems (such as e.g. research or unique enchantments), not available before. As try to be a community driven studio, your feedback plays a vital role in shaping of the final release. It is especially important considering that all the RPG systems we put in the game result in A LOT of available options on how to build and fight with your party, to the point that we could add "a bit sandboxy" as a tag, if there was an option for it. You can join our discord by using this link: https://discord.gg/eventhorizon We would also like to mention that at some point before the launch, access to the preview/demo version will no longer be available. The planned release date is for October 24, 2023. We're looking forward to your feedback! feedback! or drop your thoughts on Discord and we'll be happy to chat. The Dark Envoy team https://store.steampowered.com/app/945770/ Discord | Twitter | Facebook | TikTok

Today marks a special milestone for us as we celebrate the 5th anniversary of Tower of Time on Steam.

It's not really an anniversary gift but...

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Dark Envoy Demo is out now thanks to your feedback!

Patch Notes: Dark Envoy Demo, 3 February 2023

• Added an option for the cursor to be locked to the game window. It can be toggled in settings display.
• Multiple small performance improvements, especially on lower tier hardware.
• Target framerate can no longer be decreased below 30 fps.
• Added VSync setting.
• Fixed various problems with loading saves from previous versions.
• Audio banks loading should take considerably less time.
• Substantially improved level loading times.

• Neutral summoned units no longer reveal fog of war for the player.
• Re-rolling item modifiers during item crafting now works properly.
• The player can no longer move the camera during cutscenes.
• Some unit statistic values have been renamed, and the values shown have been fixed.
• Custom items with already applied enchantments on them can be found.
• Cone skill targeting (e.g., Adepts Frostbolts) had been centered and now show proper range.
• Fixed a glitch in intro cinematic that caused the first few frames to be rendered incorrectly.
• Fixed slow time audio effect when opening popups.
• Fixed face animation in first cutscene.
• Fixed an issue with enemies getting stuck on covers and other static units.
• Improved interactions with objects or NPCs when multiple units are selected.
• Improved line of sight calculations, for both better performance as well as more clarity for players
• Fixed an issue with player being in combat, despite no enemy being in proximity.
• AI: (1) Threat system had been improved target switching should now be more obvious to the player. (2) Skill casting should now be more reasonable. (3) Rats should now behave more like actual rats.
• Removed excessive party join/leave messages.
• Fixed an issue where audio positioning wasnt always properly set.
• Added new difficulty setting: Story.
• Hard statuses (Stun, Freeze, Knockdown etc.) now interrupt casting skills.
• Removed TAA and Motion Blur display options as they tend to glitch too often.
• NPC units no longer ignore personal space of other characters.
• Added Edge Panning sensitivity settings.
• Added Edge Panning and arrow keys movement to World Map.
• Fixed an issue that caused blurry screen upon entering World Map.
• Added item comparison when buying from a Merchant.
• Fixed an issue with Frozen status that caused damage mitigation not to work correctly.
• Fixed starting camera position on World Map.
• Healing fountain logic had been improved, as the previous one could have been abused by the player.
• Multiple balance changes throughout the game, including, but not limited to: (1) Items, (2) Enchantments, (3) Skills and their synergies, (4) Enemies stats and skills, (5) Resources dropped, (6) Crafting prices.
• Various tweaks to both boss fights: BOB: (1) Increased range on some of his skills, as they were not feasible to use previously. (2) His charge skill had been fixed to have specific interactions with rats. (3) First phase of combat had been altered to the correct version. ANCIENT GUARDIAN (1) Minor tweaks to his balance.
• Fixed an issue where Bandit Chief could have become invulnerable for an unlimited time.
• Fixed the issues with missing item icons in inventory.
• Fixed marking area of effect skill effects that are triggered by projectiles on hit.
• Fixed an issue with some enchantments that caused units wearing items with them to stop moving.

• Input had been blocked on loading screen.
• Fixed an issue where some skill icons were not loaded.
• Multiple mini-map fixes: (1) Dungeon mini-map is now updated properly when obstacles are removed. (2) Fixed mini-map marker rotation. (3) Added a setting for disabling mini-map rotation. (4) Added labels for map markers in large map view. (5) Added dungeon entrance icon.
• Blocked save button if a save file name is empty.
• Unit information tooltip will be shown over non-targetable units.
• Disabled scaling of environment-related overhead messages.
• Added confirmation popups if a player tries to exit without saving in Settings, Crafting, Skill Tree and Attributes screens.
• Added icons in Player Menu, when a player has points to distribute remaining.
• Added sorting inventory by most recent and markings for new looted items.
• Added warnings when player wants to progress through Class Selection screen without selecting a class.
• Skill telegraphing UI is now properly removed if a skill is interrupted.
• Removed unit names over their health bars to decrease screen clutter.
• Moved Weapon Skill from Skills to Inventory screen.
• Rearranged multiple settings options as well as added missing descriptions.
• World Map Location popup is now attached to the edge of the screen.
• Fixed an issue with Weight modifiers not influencing all shown stats correctly.
• Fixed an issue where some Attribute modifiers were not shown to the player.
• Multiple improvements to the quality of background textures in different UI panels.
• Fixed mouse input problems when trading with a Merchant or using the Journal screen
• Fixed an issue with cursor rotation image not displaying
• Character creation panel now explains that the specialization can only be selected at level 5
• Changed the way Frozen status was shown on units
• Clicking on the background around the map automatically closes it.
• New looting popup take all button instead of close.
• Added an option to hide helmets in inventory.
• Added continue button that automatically loads your last save.
• Multiple changes to tutorial popups, for better clarity.

• Charged Ground range is now shown more visibly.
• Healing Fountain new 3D model and VFX.
• Point of Interest icons now have an animated effect.
• Columns in mines now fade out.
• Multiple lighting tweaks in mines.
• Multiple minor item (both weapons and armor) tweaks to the textures and icons.
• Fixed issues with ocean rendering in City of Bones.

• Improved automatic region selection.
• Added connected region and latency info in multiplayer menu.
• Added latency display per player in multiplayer menu.
• Online session can be started once the player has at least 2 units in the party.
• Improved unit synchronization when a client takes control of a newly assigned unit.
• Fixed skill level synchronization for client.
• Fixed multiple game breaking errors when loading a saved game.
• Improved session connectivity and added specific error notifications for easier debugging.
• Fixed an issue with stats being mismatched between the server and a client.
• Fixed connectivity errors when a client leaves a co-op session and joins a new one.
• Fixed client stuck on loading screen when leaving a co-op session.
• Reduced delay when client is casting skills.

If you've been waiting for Dark Envoy, it's closer than you think. Take part in our demo test for friends and family and get a 1.5-hour taste of the game. To participate, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/WR73BFaWdS3KnjBm7. Well contact you in a separate email with further instructions. More info on our Discord.
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Tower of Time was a successful experiment for our team, so we want to continue challenging RPG tropes in search of a new, modern identity for the genre. We gathered a lot of feedback from ToT players and we are going forward with the knowledge that you gave us. Naturally, our next game is based on this feedback showing the impact of our community. We feel that Dark Envoy will be as much yours, as ours. We want to keep pushing the boundaries of the classic RPG experience, but without abandoning what we love in it. Here are 7 examples of what we are working on to develop memorable and unique RPGs
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Co-op Campaign Experience

Non-Linear RPG Narrative

Replayability Value

Dynamic Gameplay Flow

High-Quality Visuals and Effects

Modernization of Classic RPG Tropes

Exploration of an Intriguing World

If you're interested in our next project - check out Dark Envoy. https://store.steampowered.com/app/945770/Dark_Envoy/ Here is some extended gameplay from current version - please note that it is still work in progress but should give you a rough idea what we aim to create -- a sleek, modern and smart RPG with heavy combat focus and with no absolutely no RNG, where your tactical awareness and party building skills are the most important. Also you can get an intro to the world setting, as we think it's quite unique and should be interesting - Humans being a militaristic and seemingly evil faction... but it would be for you to decide as you progress with your adventures. [previewyoutube=bbiW_yH4s8g;full][/previewyoutube] We plan to make demo/beta build available soon, so if you're interested, we invite you to our community discord. https://discord.gg/c8Wd46s Cheers, Event Horizon team

We have done some final polishing work on Tower of Time and we consider it 'Final Edition' now. Here is the content of the last patch:

• Fixed achievements on Linux -- now working properly
• Fixed few very small bugs -- e.g. effect of the fountains not visible immediately
• Rebalancing of the difficulty -- enemy units, items, skills, battle parameters as number of enemies, spawn frequency, frequency of skills used, etc.. As a result there shouldnt be any spikes in difficulty levels when moving between Tower levels. Still when you outgrow current difficulty level (by building a real kick-ass party) we highly recommend increasing difficulty during the game. You can do it anytime outside combat.
• Visual upgrade of some skills -- one example below:

Tower of Time is 60% off for a limited time. Give it a try if you like fast paced RPGs with heavy focus on party customization and tactical real-time combat with pause or slow time. It's not a lot of money and who knows, maybe you will be pleasantly surprised. Join us on Discord - if you want to chat with us or would be interested in closed beta of our next project (once we are ready with it) https://discord.gg/FBWCCTb https://www.facebook.com/eventhorizondev/ https://twitter.com/EventHorizonDev https://darkenvoy.com/ ----------- ### ----------- If you like what we've created, our next game -- Dark Envoy -- should also be fun. It is much bigger in scope and quality of everything is much higher. Below is the preview of one of our locations - your starting city: Pillars of Tyr-Mora, aka City of Bones
https://store.steampowered.com/app/945770/Dark_Envoy/ Thanks for reading all this a have a great day. Cheers, Event Horizon

We are very happy to announce that as of now we also support Italian language. We also introduced few quality of life improvements requested by you. We hope Italian players can now enjoy the game fully. BIG THANKS to Marcello 'Darth Vader' Brancaccio, Davide 'Metallo' Speca and Alfonso 'alfx' De Luca that helped us to localize the game to Italian. It was not a small effort, as the game has close to 200k words. They have done an excellent job!

Quality of Life improvements

• Added Italian language
• Added option to highlight interactive items ( "H" key by default)
• Map marker visibility is now better
• Fixed icon in Crafting Panel that sometimes remained inactive (grey) when new type of item has been chosen
• Optimized few battlegrounds where enemy summons were especially frequent and which could cause crashes on PCs with low memory
• Movement paths in few places are now
• Fixed one dialogue where incorrect champion was speaking with a Mech
• Fixed one place where translation was missing on floor 3 in few languages

New gameplay preview of Dark Envoy, our next game. It has new locations and some new mechanics like the the stealth in real-time exploration, covers and day/night cycle(s) Also, a sneak preview of the physics system. So few turn-based RPG games use physics because its quite a challenge to integrate with the gameplay fairly. But its so fun, so we are giving it a try :) https://youtu.be/TQJ6dMc1JUE If you are interested, check out more details here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/945770/Dark_Envoy/ If you want to chat with the developers or fellow Tower of Time players: https://discord.gg/c8Wd46s

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Hello All, If you are interested what we have been working on, we are happy to announce our new project. https://store.steampowered.com/app/945770/Dark_Envoy/ You can check the trailer also on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfF9SNfFRvk We gained a lot of experience while making Tower of Time and listened to all the feedback very attentively. Now, we intend to prove it by creating even better and more engaging RPG. It will have guns and magic as before. But now you will also have your own personal Skyship. What about that? If you want to know more, head to Dark Envoy page and look around. Please let us know what you think. Cheers, Event Horizon team

We are very happy to announce that as of now we also support Chinese language - both Traditional and Simplified. We hope Chinese players can now enjoy the game fully. We have also fixed a minor issue where items could sometimes disappear when they were picked up while in Crafting or Item Forge screen and Player switched to a different character at exactly the same moment. Cheers, Event Horizon team.

Dear Players, Based on the feedback we have received recently, after previous Patch with crafting changes, we have rebalanced the game in an attempt to make it equally challenging as before. Changes were made to health scaling and defense stats of the enemies on higher difficulties, as well as selective changes to their damage and abilities, for certain enemies. We hope it will make the game challenging again on hard and epic difficulty. Please be so kind and let us know. We have also fixed some of the issues with Turkish language not displaying properly in certain UI elements. Cheers, Event Horizon Team

Dear Players, We have fixed most of the issues reported by you in the last week. Below you can find the list of new fixes --- as well as the list of fixes implemented in the previous hotfix (1st Feb). We merged two announcements into one, since they both relate to similar things.

Hotfix 2

• Fixed achievement "I Don't Need Many"
• Fixed issue with Tinhead spinning like crazy sometimes
• Fixed Taunt - it now interrupts drains
• Fixed issue with golem fight on intro level
• Fixed toggling heroes using a shortcut
• Greatly improved UI performance in both exploration and city
• Fixed issue where a player was shown that his enchant was unlocked while it was not
• Fixed issue where enchants weren't selectable if first level of an enchant was not attained
• Fixed issue where unit statistics panel's language didn't update when changing the language
• Fixed issue where text quality of item tier and the "1H/2H" indication was not clear
• Fixed minor translation issues and added missing translations
• Improved performance on levels 9-11 of the Tower
• Fixed magic penetration calculation on enemies without resistance
• Improved game stability
• Slightly improved performance by changing cascaded shadows distribution
• Fixed issue with certain environmental 3D SFX sometimes loading incorrectly in 2D.
• Improved Training Dummy battlemap and added 2 Defense Towers to Training Dummies 80%, 100%, 120% and 150% resistances and higher (so you can check you AOE dps as well).
• Readjustment of hard and epic difficulty, since we got feedback that the game is too easy now - after we the changes to crafting (where you can craft a very selected gear) and some enemy scaling modification. It again should be hard as nail on epic. Please let us know if it is. Thanks.

Hotfix 1

Technical

• 0 dps score is not sent to leaderboards (to confirm: Score and DPS Race is only measured in RPGlite and Permadeath game modes).
• Fixed crash when migrating broken save file (when this occured, game started with black screen only).
• Fixed invalid score value after lost battle.
• Leaving battle in Permadeath is equal to losing it. (Yes, sorry :)
• Fixed issue with not selectable enchant with higher tier when lower tier is not unlocked.
• Fixed enchant tier icon not updated when selected category without any valid enchant group.
• Retreat/Restart battle buttons disabled in Permadeath.
• Fixed (very rare) issue with teleporting party to a wrong location after unlocking Aeric.

Graphic

• Decreased particle count on both Intro levels and 1st Floor (we overdid with the fog here and there).
• Small graphic adjustments on two Battlegrounds.
• Added new Permadeath skull icon, when champion dies in combat and cannot re-enter the tower.
• Small adjustment to the lightning for few skills, so they look more epic.

UI changes

• Added slider for heroes voices volume in settings, so you can turn them off completely.
• Added confirmation popup for links in menu which redirect to external browser (Discord and Leaderboard links).
• (Permadeath) Dead units can be selected in inventory window - so you can take their items and give to other champions.
• Added score change info to combat summary window - in the format SCORE XXX (+/- YYY). It shows your current score (XXX) and your score for the last battle (+/- YYY). You get positive points for the first three battles on each level and then small negative value for each next battle. Objective is to reach the end of the game with as little grind as possible.

Crashes

Dear Players, Thanks for a very detailed feedback regarding new game modes and all the report issues you had sent us. We are glad to see that generally you like our attempts at fast-paced dungeon crawler game. Please consider leaving a review on Steam, it would help to keep this game alive for a while longer. We pushed a small hotfix (only 66MB) that addresses the following issues:

Technical

• 0 dps score is not sent to leaderboards (to confirm: Score and DPS Race is only measured in RPGlite and Permadeath game modes).
• Fixed crash when migrating broken save file (when this occured, game started with black screen only).
• Fixed invalid score value after lost battle.
• Leaving battle in Permadeath is equal to losing it. (Yes, sorry :)
• Fixed issue with not selectable enchant with higher tier when lower tier is not unlocked.
• Fixed enchant tier icon not updated when selected category without any valid enchant group.
• Retreat/Restart battle buttons disabled in Permadeath.
• Fixed (very rare) issue with teleporting party to a wrong location after unlocking Aeric.

Graphic

• Decreased particle count on both Intro levels and 1st Floor (we overdid with the fog here and there).
• Small graphic adjustments on two Battlegrounds.
• Added new Permadeath skull icon, when champion dies in combat and cannot re-enter the tower.
• Small adjustment to the lightning for few skills, so they look more epic.

UI

• Added slider for heroes voices volume in settings, so you can turn them off completely.
• Added confirmation popup for links in menu which redirect to external browser (Discord and Leaderboard links).
• (Permadeath) Dead units can be selected in inventory window - so you can take their items and give to other champions.
• Added score change info to combat summary window - in the format SCORE XXX (+/- YYY).

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Dear Players. We bring you something different this time. We have implemented two new games modes. If you want to replay Tower of Time or if you (a New Player) dont really like cRPGs so much and prefer fast paced games like Darkest Dungeon you might find this enjoyable. Several other improvements were also made based on your feedback and are listed below. All in all this is quite an exciting update, which far exceeds typical updates we have done before. Apologies for the wall of text below, but there are really a lot of changes.

RPGlite and Permadeath game modes

• You start in the city.
• All 7 champions are available in the beginning.
• Blacksmith (Tier I gear), Transmute and Enchanting is enabled.
• All class buildings are upgraded to the max, so you can level up whatever champions you wish, providing you have the resources.
• First 4 floors of the Tower are immediately unlocked, so you can move down whenever you are ready. Remaining parts are unlocked when you descend through the stairs at the end of the given floor.
• You can skip Dialogues and temporarily unlock doors and remove barriers, that usually require doing a quest (via the means of skip content lever.
• Party alignment is changed to Party Boost and depends on the level of the champion.
• Some starting resources, so you can customize your starting party a bit.
• Save games are now in separate categories: Normal, RPGlite, Permadeath. --- PERMADEATH mode ---
• Permadeath mode is for those truly wishing to test themselves. When your champion die in battle, he/she cannot re-enter the tower (unless you resurrect him in combat) and you continue with remaining party.
• New difficulty setting for Permadeath - Blood - which is the only one available for this mode. It starts relatively easy, so you get the resources to build up your party and then ramps up to half way between Hard and Epic.
• Game ends when you loose all your champions OR when you reach the end of floor 11 with at least a single one.

Leaderboards and Game Score

Items and Attributes

• Reduced RNG on base stats. Each Weapon sub-type is now different. Each Armor, Ring and Amulet type is also different, you can check it when you go to our new crafting panel.
• Removed some of the weak combinations of pre-fixes and suffixes that immediately were dismantled.
• You will be able to select which item sub-type you wish to craft. Some items are more powerful or special so they also cost more. When you click on the question mark, you can see exactly what stats those items have.
  
• Possible magical stats for crafted items and looted items are now separated. Only looted items can give you a rare and powerful stat such as Spectral (which restores your mana for each weapon hit) or Chaotic (which has a small chance to Stun, Daze or Slow enemies). So now you should never disregard looted items and consider them turning into Epic and Enchanted gear using the forges.
• Items have much more distinctive characteristics e.g. each of the three 2-handed Swords have a very different stats and unique characteristics now. If you want to have a high stun chance for your melee champions, then you will be able to do so.
• Might and Speed attributes are now more powerful, making Weapon-based builds on par with Mastery. At 50 attribute points they now grant 150% boost to Weapon Damage and Attack Speed vs. 100% boost to Skill Damage from Mastery.
• Melee weapons are now scaling much better than Range weapons, so melee-focused party is certainly viable now.
• Enchanting panel is reworked, not resetting anymore when you switch champions and also showing all possible enchants for the item (Locked), so you can see whether you have missed any enchantment.
  
• Cost of enchantments is generally reduced, so you should not be afraid to use them.
• Likewise, cost of item forge upgrade has been reduced, as the last slots were far too expensive and rarely anyone used them.

Champions, Skills, Enemies

Other changes

• Anti-aliasing now works correctly (it is called FXAA)
• Few Battlegrounds were improved or even changed significantly, such as Titan Battleground.
• Added voice confirmations for champions in combat, so the combat is more lively now.
• Several skill SFX were improved, all range projectiles and a lot of skills.
• UI was optimized, improving FPS, especially for low-end configurations.

Turkish language added

Dear Players, Some of you might have noticed a small (400mb) patch - we have just updated downloadable OST for Tower of Time. All 32 music tracks are now included, split into City, Exploration and Fight in a very high quality mp3. You can find them in the main game location in OST folder. To access them easily, just right click on game in your Library --> Properties --> Local Files --> Browse Local Files Those of you who did not download the OST yet - a reminder that they are for Free (well, you still need to own ToT). Just click on Downloadable Content to download them.
We are now working on two new game modes that will turn Tower of Time into a challenging rogue-like experience, with all champions available at start and with removed story elements. Cheers, Event Horizon team

Hey! Cool news! We got nominated to TOP 100 IndieDB competition for 2018 Indie of the Year! Now the final part is voting. If you think we deserve your vote - it would be great. Or perhaps you can find a different game on the list that is your favorite. Indie developers will appreciate your vote. It is so hard to push through in these days. Help hard working developers, it takes only few seconds. You can vote for your game here. Just select your genre (we are in Role Playing :) and click VOTE button. Voting ends on 20 Dec. https://www.indiedb.com/groups/2018-indie-of-the-year-awards/top100#vote61376
Cheers, Happy Event Horizon team

NOW IN FRENCH TOO

MAINTENANT, AUSSI EN FRANCAIS

WHAT IS NEXT?

ET LA SUITE ?

OPTIMIZE THE GAMES AND SAVE OUR PLANET -- PATCH NOTES

• Adding an option to limit FPS between 30 and 265 in Settings
• Increasing the compression of textures
• Decreasing the range of shadows rendering
• Optimizing all music and SFX (compression)
• Optimizing what is being rendered and whats not, if objects are outside of view area
• Turning off reflection probes in real-time
• Decreasing amount of memory allocated to raycast of particles
• Decreasing lightning in places where we use forward rendering
• Adding an option to turn on/turn off anti-aliasing in Settings

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS:

• Adding missing Days of Old 9 cinematic (damn, that is embarrassing that we lost this one along the way, especially since this is one of the best one we have)
• Fixed few translations and added few missing ones
• Fixed Quest Log in Ancient Machine quest
• Fixed bug when music sometimes did not resume playing after cinematics
• Fixed volume bar for cinematics (sometimes it stopped working)
• Removed unlimited teleporting option but added an option to teleport to the beginning of the floor at will (unlimited teleporting could potentially break two quests)

WHAT IS NEXT?

In celebration of 100 years of Polish Independence we are reducing the price of Tower of Time by 30% We will be streaming Tower of Time a lot in the coming days, explaining game mechanics and also trying to beat Epic difficulty. Join the adventure in this story-rich dungeon crawler with quite unique real-time combat that will test your tactical skills to the limits. Cheers, Event Horizon team

Dear Players Trying to trick the Titan to get the candy? Well, that is a very daring plan... A short update about Tower of Time although we are focusing mostly on our new project, we plan to release a patch within two weeks fixing few small remaining bugs reported by the players and also adding few performance optimization options. We are also finishing French localization which should be ready within a month. We are also working on console version of Tower of Time, although this is probably of little interest to you (being PC players). If you are interested in our new project just click on Event Horizon name under Publisher and follow us. We will announce the new game very soon, with a shining new trailer. Cheers, Event Horizon team

Nous travaillons actuellement sur la version française du jeu. Même si pour le moment la traduction est en cours, et que beaucoup de parties publiées sont encore en train d’être retravaillés, nous avons décidé qu'il valait mieux faire des mises à jour régulières, afin de rendre le jeu accessible aux bêta-testeurs français. Nous avons revu les dialogues du Livre Un plusieurs fois, et même s'ils ne sont pas parfaits, nous commençons à avoir un résultat qui nous plaît. Le Livre Un est entièrement jouable en français. Nous travaillons actuellement sur les menus, les descriptions de monstres et d'objets etc... Une fois que nous aurons terminé, nous continuerons les traductions des dialogues des livres Deux et Trois. Puis nous publierons une traduction bêta du jeu complet, avant de tout réviser à nouveau afin de vous fournir une version française finale. Veuillez noter, s’il vous plaît, que tout le contenu n’est pas encore correctement traduit. Si vous préférez attendre une version finale, elle sera disponible courant décembre. Pour activer la langue française, activez l'option Bêta dans les propriétés du jeu dans la bibliothèque Steam, et sélectionnez PUBLIC_FRENCH_BETA dans le menu déroulant. --- We are currently working on the French version of the game. Even though it is still very much a work in progress, we've decided that it would be better to publish regular updates instead of waiting too much, in order to make the game playable for French beta-testers. The dialogues for the Book One have been reviewed several times, and even if they are not perfect yet, we are starting to be satisfied with the outcome. We are now working on all the menus, mob descriptions, item descriptions etc. Once this is achieved, we will publish the beta translation for the rest of the dialogues and the descriptions for the books Two and Three, before reviewing everything again and publishing a proper French version for the whole game. Please be aware that not all the content is translated yet, so if you prefer to wait for the final version, we expect it to be ready in December. To access French language - please activate opt-in for BETA in game settings in Steam library and select PUBLIC_FRENCH_BETA from drop-down menu. Cheers, Event Horizon team

Dear Players, If you are on the fence if Tower of Time is a game for you, now for a limited time you can get if with 30% discount. If you already own the game and enjoyed it, please help us spread the word! Thank you! Cheers, Event Horizon team

Dear Players, We have released a patch addressing the following issue: Floor 5, platform reset - sometimes even if platforms were reset, player could not enter the first platform. It is corrected now and platform reset works correctly now. We have also implemented some graphical optimization as we are preparing the game for the console release - which resulted in quite a big patch size. We hope you continue to enjoy the game. Regards, Event Horizon team

Dear Players,

Tower of Time Wiki

Fixes

Hello, A small patch this time, addressing the following problems:

• Chest "stuck" bug - that sometimes occurred
• Progress on floor 1 - it did not count in 1 mimic chest
• Flying bats - decreased the volume of sound and the frequency of appearance
• Few quest items (e.g. signet ring on floor 5) are better visible now
• Melee champion behavior - sometimes they did not want to attack enemies or objects (trap) that were very close.
• Some more of the graphic optimization in few locations - improvement of the overall performance.
• Floor 9 map - few details added to make it more readable. Thank you for playing Tower of Time. We hope you are enjoying the game. Cheers, Event Horizon Team
  
  [ 2018-06-28 16:01:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear Players, We are happy to release another update with few quality of life features requested by you and few important fixed. We are also adding Russian to the list of supported languages. If you would like to check the review of Tower of Time, we recommend watching the recent one from Skill Up, where he also has an interesting retrospective about CRPG genre in general. https://youtu.be/bw7I1GAAFTs

Russian language added

Fixes

• Fixed bug that sometimes caused the party to be stuck in opened chests
• Added option to teleport to any uncovered checkpoint, from any point on the map
• Fixed the bug that on some configuration caused the cinematics to play very slow
• Fixed chest progress on floor 1
• Some minor graphic fixes
• All bosses are now immune to blind (as was always intended). Weakness, armor shatter and elemental weakness still works on them.

Quality of life features

• Added few more mimic chests, since you seem to enjoy the encounters. Have fun. Those creatures will not yield their treasure willingly.
• Added few environmental effects such as flying bats or glowing wisp floating around that added some life to the environment
• Added option to reduce particle number in exploration for slower PCs.
• Added option to reduce shadow number in exploration for slower PCs.

Hello, Thanks for the positive response about Polish language and other features we have released. We are glad you enjoy them. Please leave us a review if you feel we game deserves it, it will help us a lot. Thanks. We just launched a small update which fixes the following issues:

• Small corrections to Polish texts, mostly in skill descriptions.
• Fix to floor 1 progress where mimic chest was counted towards a chest while it is not really one... Yes, we are confused about this statement as well. To update the progress, please enter floor 1 again.
• 4 missing enchants (rewards for challenges) are back. If you did those challenges and did not get the enchants, they will be added now so you can collect all 100% of them.
• Floor maps - we added some details to the maps, such as bridges and walls so it is easier to navigate through the floors.

Dear Players, We are happy to release another update with few quality of life features requested by you and few important fixed. We are also adding Polish to the list of supported languages.

Język Polski

Other languages update

Graphics improvements

Quality of life features

• New Map with Points of Interests We have changed the maps - they are now rotated towards camera view, can be zoomed in / out and also contain all points of interests that count towards progress. It will make hunting for this “last chest” much easier now.
  
• Fast mode in combat You can now accelerate time in combat to 3x normal speed - for those who want to resolve the combat quickly.
  
• Pre-battle screen information Information about number of enemies - indicated by the number of skulls from 1-4. It should be now easier to prepare for encounters.
  
• Mana Orbs fights When the last mana orb is destroyed, it does not end the fight abruptly anymore. Instead, it does explode and releases highly toxic gas that is damaging your champions. You can continue to fight and eliminate last remaining enemies, if only few remained.
  
• Portal and Tower Icons - we have reworked them a bit, so they present information in more transparent way.
• Added animations when your champions are idle - not the most important feature, but it adds some life to your party when you are exploring.

Combat balance

Fixes

• Fixed key in water sector on level 4 - where sometimes it disappeared after going to the city and returning from it. If you go to this place - it will be waiting there.
• Fixed fountain on floor 6 giving 10% mana - instead of +10 mana

Hello. We just released a small hotfix:

• We have reduced overall difficulty on epic for mid and end game - reversed most of the changes from yesterday's patch. We kept new new boss mechanics (that make the fights more fun since they were just shoot and forget) and higher rewards for hard and epic. We did not want to break anyone's gameplay-in-progress. We still believe adding possibility to craft rings and jewelry and the change to dusty scrolls made the game easier on early levels. We will introduce a higher level of difficulty in the next patch that would be accessible only from New Game.
• Fixed rare issue that some unique items did not show correct upgrade in item tooltips (they were working fine in combat)
• Fixed a missing enchant reward in one of the Military Construct challenges. If you did this fight yesterday and did not receive the enchant, please Report Issue and we will send you back fixed save game.

Dear Players, Another big update that implements few quality of life features and corrects bugs based on your feedback.

German Language

Other Languages Update

Quality of life changes

• Reworked dusty scroll mechanics. Now they always show the effect of the scroll. They are split into Lesser and Greater scrolls. Lesser Scroll grants a small positive effect while Greater Scroll grants a powerful positive effect but also a small negative one.
  
• Added auto-cast option for buffs. New checkbox is added to the skill button.
  
• New battle unit tooltip with more information.
  
• Added health and mana regeneration stats to hero portraits.
  
• Combat loot is now scaling with difficulty. If there is a unique item as a reward, it has slightly better stats on hard (+) and epic (++). Gold amount is slightly increased and additional crafting crystal can be looted.
  
• Added crafting for Jewelry (from Blacksmith level 1) and Pistols (from Blacksmith level 3).
• Unique items have one item forge slot so their life should now be longer.
• Each resistance on Armor is now shown separately.
• Daze and Stun effects are now shown on champion’s portrait.
• When battle starts, first champion is always selected.
• Reflect damage icon is changed.
• Buff graphical effects are now toned down, so the visibility of the effects (if there are many) is improved.
• Added subtle animated environment elements (e.g. moving machines or swaying chandeliers).
• Improved graphics on few floors (e.g. intro floor).
• Four new battlemaps added.

Bug Fixes

• Few English typos were fixed. It should be now 100% correct.
• 100% Completion is always possible now – even [spoiler]on floor 7 if you are kicked out from Daeva realm. However, Imprisoned Daeva (quest) counts towards 100% so you need to kill him before Trial ends if you plan on being kicked out from their realm[/spoiler].
• Fixed buff timers sometimes duplicating.
• Fixed hero stats sometimes not updating in inventory.
• Fixed Main Damage getting replaced with Additional Damage after Item Forge (it caused problems when using Sunpower enchant).
• Fixed Khan battle – now killing portal first and boss after does not result in a long waiting time before the battle is concluded.
• Fixed some enemy summons which had 1 Health.
• Towers and Portals now highlight properly when skill casting.
• Fixed auto-save icon now showing all the time.
• Elemental Barrage does not block movement now before projectiles hit the targets.
• [spoiler]Imprisoned Daeva boss – now his drain life and drain mana skills work properly and channel can be interrupted together with the skill effect.[/spoiler]
• The nasty chest on floor 5 at fountain can now be accessed.
• Kelsier’s Unique items now work properly and do stack armor reduction.
• Fixed chest on floor 5 (near the fountain) that was difficult to pick up.
• Fixed enchant names.

Combat balancing

• [spoiler]Super secret dispenser code fight – fixed. It was meant to be unbeatable but some of you made it. So – now it is very hard but doable and therefore has decreased reward (still very nice but not game-breaking anymore).[/spoiler]
• Fixed: Push and Pull skill effects no longer break the channel skills. One problem with difficulty was that lots of mid- and end- game enemies use channel skills that were not a big threat due to pull/push.
• Thorns Enchant – it was too powerful early especially when Armor was added in Item Forge. We did a lot of testing and rebalanced it to make it still very good early game and scaling well into late game. Also radius of Thorns has been increased from 3m to 4m so you are not forced to micromanage so much.
• Boss fights were rebalanced – lots of them got new (sometimes unique) skills.
• Rakhem’s skills: Acid Splash increased poison damage. Blinding Flash increased air damage.
• Boron’s Cleave increased cleave damage at all levels, to 100% at maximum level.
• [spoiler]Daeva enemies now should be what they meant to be – terrifying and tough minibosses. Number of enemies in fights decreased but each enemy should be much bigger threat now.[/spoiler]
• Few combats rebalanced – number of enemies changed, portal timers adjusted, trap positions adjusted. We hope you are enjoying Tower of Time. Please share with us your feedback so we can continue to improve the game – via Discord server or forums. https://discord.gg/c8Wd46s Thank you. Cheers, Event Horizon team.
  
  [ 2018-05-16 18:13:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear Players, We hope your journey to the bottom of the Tower has thus far been an exciting and entertaining one! And wish to thank you for your tremendous development feedback and continued support. Let us share with you what we are working on at the moment. We are finishing localization to German and Polish at the moment. We expect to launch German language on Monday or Tuesday - it had been intense work and possible only with the help of the community. We are very grateful for your support. Polish language most likely will follow few days after. Together with German we will launch Patch #3 with another round of changes and improvements, as requested by You. In addition to minor combat balance changes, there are also few bigger improvements:

• Ability to craft rings and amulets
• Ability to craft pistols from Blacksmith Tier 3
• Scaling of the rewards depending on difficulty. That includes amount of gold and crystals -- as well as unique items received as a reward from combat or challenges. Now, when you kill Shade on Epic, the reward will be worthy of your sweat and blood.
• Dusty Scrolls - complete change of the mechanics. They will now split into Lesser and Greater Scrolls. The effect of the scroll will be clearly noted. Lesser Scrolls will have always a small positive effect while Greater Scrolls will have a major positive but also a small negative effect.
• Combat UI - re-work of the tooltip showing champion or enemy statistics, with new information added.

Dear Players This patch brings a lot of quality improvements requested by you as well as several balancing changes and bug fixes. The list is very long so apologies for a wall of text that follows. We will appreciate your reviews on Steam and metacritic. It seems our game somehow is received as too hardcore and that scares a lot of people away. We have several difficulty settings, so it is accessible to anyone - if you come just for the story have no fear. Please help us spread the word about the game.

New Features

• New steam cards, backgrounds, emoticons and badges.
• Minimap. You can turn it off and on with 'N' or by pressing compass icon.
  
• Buff icons in combat that show the remaining time of the buff above skill tab.
  
• Pre-battle movement - initial positioning is very important when it comes to threat. Now you can move the champions within limited area.
  
• New enchanting icons. Not the most important update - but they look nicer now.
  
• When your champions are immobilized, there is an icon on character portrait (similar to when they are trapped).
• Hotkey "T" to change champion stances betwen Stand Ground and Move and Attack.
• Two new high-end practise dummies that simulate end-game bosses.
• Added achievements for epic - win 5 battles on epic for each floor.

Gameplay fixes and changes

Hello, We hope most of you are enjoying the game. When we decided to break the copy/paste tradition on present gaming market and try something new, we were expecting that not everyone will like it. Judging by the reactions so far, most of you do like it. We are very happy about that. When you play and finish the game, please leave us a review - your feedback is very important for us. This is our first project and we need your input to make sure that Tower of TIme is the game You want to play, and not only the pet project of “know-it-all developers”. We received a lot of Report Issue logs or emails in the last week. Only thanks to them we were able to identify the problems that we could not otherwise reproduce. Big thanks for that !! The patch notes are as follows:

Technical

• Crashes at start some experienced We couldn’t reproduce them but there seems to be a pattern between our compression codecs and players’ codecs. We did two things here - we added a timeout if video doesn’t play at all (that should not cause game to crash) and we rendered all cinematics again. We do hope it will solve the problem - if not - please let us know and we will try another solution with next week patch
• Performance should improve in several areas pointed out as problematic
• High GPU/CPU usage - if you are experiencing those, please try vsync option on and off. If that doesn’t help - please be so kind and Report Issue so we can nail this problem.
• Fixed Tutorial Tips scaling on 21:9 and higher ratios. (we also are looking into increasing text size for those of you that play on large screens - that would take a little longer)
• Fixed issue with black screen appearing sometimes when movie is skipped

Gameplay

• Selected unit will not move at all even if in aggressive stance mode. You can keep them all in healing totem range. Just deselect champion(s) again (or press “A”) to let him run towards enemies.
• Fixed issues with item upgrades that had values clamp to integer value
• Fixed teleporter problem ( teleports no longer block themselves after returning to city while teleportation was in progress )
• Floor 1 -- Fixed rare issue with Magic Barrier and Devron
• Floor 5 - Fixed issue with closed door / pinpad and Mech that was preventing access

Combat

• Reaper Guard, Floor 1 - can be blinded again (stops drain life channel)
• Two fights, Floor 2 - in Library and end level portals - decreased difficulty
• Sewer fight, Floor 3 - decreased difficulty
• Air Elemental Boss - changed fight mechanics, increased difficulty
• Screamers - blind grenade duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds

Item Forge

• Mana - 1 upgrade granted 1 mana regen point - now it grants 0.1 (as was always intended).
• Health - 1 upgrade granted 1 health point - now it grants 0.5 (as was always intended).

Next Patch

Small Hotfix - 19 April

Hello, One day after the launch - thrilling experience for all of us. Thanks to all that have supported us with comments and suggestions. We are releasing a small hotfix for some of the issues that players encountered so far. The list is quite short, as it seems there are are no major bugs and the game is stable. If you encounter any other problems - please let us know via in-game Report Issue. We are planning a major patch for next Friday with more difficult things - such as extended graphics options for better customization.

Fixes

• Fixed sound glitches when videos are starting to play
• Removed anti-aliasing so the game is now more crisp (we will add the option to turn on/off AA in the next patch)
• Fixed "fountains of 000" when using certain unique items
• Updated icons of the buildings in the city
• Fixed bug with enemies sometimes disappearing when retreating from battle
• Fixed bug with enemies spawning in the wrong direction in few battles
• Fixed some saving issues (if you encounter them, please report via in-game tool as they are very difficult to spot)
• [spoiler]Fixed Magic Source quest - when Devron wouldn't talk to you even if you had spoken with both sisters. [/spoiler]

Tower of Time is Live !

Dear Players, The Big Day is approaching fast. Only 2 days left before we open the portals to the mythical world of Artara, full of dangers and secrets. Tower of Time will release as planned on 12th April around 12 CET. Retail price will be 20.99 EUR / 21.99 USD. We will release English version on Windows. Linux should follow very shortly (within 1-2 days). We are finishing localization to German and Polish but we need a bit more time to ensure the quality is as high as possible. We hope you will enjoy our ambitious attempt to bring something fresh to RPG and mix it with deep tactical combat. Cheers, Event Horizon team

Hello Linux users. A massive Linux update just went live. We originally intended to wait with that for the full release, but in the light of negative comments about Linux version not working properly (even if on unsupported distributions), we decided to push it now. There is a long list of changes here, the most important one is the (yet) another one video player and also different format for all cinematic movies we have in game. Linux version is giving us headaches since day one. We are struggling hard to make it work on as many distributions as possible, but we cannot guarantee that it will work on each and every one. We do hope that you will understand it. In case of problems, please just let us know - either via private message, message here in forums or in our beta Discord. https://discord.gg/8hpkCgD If you decide to give us a negative review because of the issues you encounter, please at least give us more details about the problem, so we can try to solve it for other Linux-user. We do hope that your experience now will be very smooth. Cheers, Event Horizon team

(this is Kane trying his new equipment on a training dummy) We received a lot of questions recently about itemization. So let me explain few things - as champions' equipment is what really matters the most in any cRPG game. You can revive your champion if he dies, but one you accidentally sell your epic sword to a vendor, it is usually lost forever. We created perhaps the most complex equipment system ever attempted in RPG. Items are randomly generated, but they follow very specific and quite simple rules. On top of that, if you are fond of a particular item and you have resources, you can further upgrade as you want.

Item types

• 1H weapon + shield
• Two 1H weapon (dualwield)
• 2H weapon

• Regular Sword - high base damage and some Critical Chance
• Stun Edge - that has inherent Stun Chance %
• Fire Blade - that deals Fire Damage as main damage type

Legendary Items

As we prepare for the full release on 12th April 2018, we have lowered the price a bit so you can try Tower of Time and regain (hopefully) the faith in Early Access approach. Upon the release final price will be 21.99 USD/EUR (or equivalent in local currency) and we will not have any launch discount.

Languages

Version 0.9.1.1759

Final release 12 April 2018

Combat state and Pause added

Party Alignment

Skills and Skill Tree

Itemization and Item Forge

Guns and 1-handed crossbows

Map Markers and Quests

New Enemies, New Bosses, New Unique Items

Optimization and Loading Times

Music and SFX

Balancing

We are balancing hard and epic difficulty levels and we reached the stage where we need more feedback from veteran RTS gamers.
If you like to: Die in a hopeless fight - so you can improve your builds and tactics Die again, so you can understand your enemies and adjust your builds again Almost... win, so you can learn the combat map advantages Win!!! and have super satisfaction from it So basically, if you like your playing your games like this...
..and are willing to work with us to make it a super awesome and rewarding experience.
Then please join our Epic Combat Tester group to learn more and please share with your friends who play real-time combat type of games - write to us and get invite to our discord channel support@evehor.com Cheers, Event Horizon

As we are nearing a release date, we would like to share with you some of the more exciting new features that are coming.

Item Forge

We have added a clip presenting Kane and his abilities to store page. Can you imagine your party without him? Here is also a link to YT channel Tower of Time YT channel

Kane's background

Hello All, We just released a hotfix 0.6.2.1334. The following issues are fixed:

Issues

• [spoiler]Daeva Trials - Maeve and Boron issue when game sometimes froze between sequences. Your saves will work as intended.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Some Beast challenges did not trigger combat.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Beast group in the sewers - upon entering combat player was returned to the city instead[/spoiler]
• Achievements will properly unlock

Linux

We will release a hotfix very soon (perhaps even tomorrow), addressing the following issues:

Issues

• [spoiler]Daeva Trials - Maeve and Boron issue when game sometimes froze between sequences. Your saves will work as intended.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Some Beast challenges did not trigger combat.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Beast group in the sewers - upon entering combat player was returned to the city instead[/spoiler]
• Achievements will properly unlock

Linux

A short update about few things here, as we are working towards the final release.

Difficulty levels

Item Forge

Skill adjustments

Party Alignment

Price change

Feedback

Pause Time

We just released a small hotfix - addressing random crashes and fixing few other small issues:

• Added support for 64bit systems - it should eliminate most crashes in recent build, that were caused by memory limitations
• Fixed cursor flickering for some rotatable objects
• Shade quest / Level 4 -- Water Essence can now be interacted with / picked-up
• Arachnya - Primal Boss / Level 3 - now she can be attacked by melee units
• Six Sons quest / Level 4 -- all beacons now display being lit as they should
• Other minor fixes.

We just released a small update and hotfix to Book Two. Here is a short summary:

Update

• Added description to Battle Challenges.
• Added relative "power" of Battle Challenges, giving the idea about difficulty of each challenge.
• Titan - added autoattacks, as was always intended.
• Few Melee bosses - they complained that Players were kiting them too much. They received an upgrade in a form of various "I catch you" skills.

Skill changes

• Kane, Dash - Enhancement 2 decreases mana and cooldown, making it a useful utility skill.
• Rakhem, Fire Power - Enhancement 1 - adds armor and resistances, making him a durable tank.

Hotfix

• Fixed a bug with some interactive elements not being "active" - that could case game freezes.
• Fixed few places where crash could occur.

• Flickering cursor over some rotate-able element (but they do work).
• Small delay when moving between inventory and skill tree.

Difficulty Levels

Recommendation

Challenges

We have released additional content for Tower of Time, together with major improvements to every aspect of the game. The full list would be too long, so here is a short summary.

Book Two

Story

Combat

Save Games - conversion

Other improvements

In Book Two Your party will extend to the final number - seven. Will it be a lucky number for Artara? We will not disclose what this class will be, care to guess based on the concept art above?

Over last few weeks we have been very busy, working on almost every aspect of the game. We are about to start testing phase for Book Two - about 12 hour of new content will be added - but also lots of changes to the existing levels and mechanics. You can see the highlights below:

Lore

• Characters have more distinctive personalities - almost all dialogues are re-written.
• New cinematics

Skills and Combat

The list is quite long, the most important examples are:
• stances (stand ground / aggressive),
• combat statistics (showing performance of each champion),
• improved ability to hold enemies by tanks,
• ability to switch party at any time (not only in city)
  
  
  
  

  Book Two

  
  The story will continue and will twist in unexpected way. We cannot say more.
  
  
  We will announce the date for Book Two release shortly. We hope you will enjoy those changes. Cheers, KM
  Meave is looking forward to incoming changes too.
  
  [ 2017-11-23 17:43:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

There had been few posts about our combat mechanics lately. We agree with them 100%. So here is a short update on what we have been working on for the last two months, to improve the variety and challenge players more in the terms of the tactics and builds. We are implementing New Combat Modes, where objectives will be different. Here are the main examples - they will be combined as well. We are setting them up and balancing, so we need perhaps two more weeks before adding them to the current content.

Trap

Defend

Destroy

Large Maps

Tower of Time is now different look and feel.

Important

Patch details

• New graphic look & feel
• New UI for Character Screen and Inventory
• New stats for characters and items
• Gold treasures are now visible as separate objects
• Added 1H or 2H indicator to weapons
• Important items are visibly marked with light or effect
• Added lots of new SFX or fixed existing ones
• Fixed some enchantments
• Introduction levels - updates to the story

Screenshots

Hello Everyone,

Book Two

Upcoming Patch

• Major upgrade of graphics
• Few new combat modes
• New Inventory/Character Screen Here are some screenshots what will change in the existing content.
  
  
  
  
  
  We hope you will enjoy all those changes. Cheers, KM
  
  [ 2017-09-26 14:48:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello, As we continue to upgrade combat and work hard on Book Two, we also decided to upgrade our graphics - both in exploration and combat. Here are some examples of two battle maps:

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The new look is more realistic and atmospheric. How do you like those changes? If you could review Tower of Time or share with us your suggestions for improvements, we would highly appreciate it. Thanks. Cheers, KM

Hello, As you had requested, we have published a soundtrack for Tower of Time, available for free download as DLC (mp3 library) After download, they are located in your main steam folder: (e.g.) C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonTower of TimeTower of Time OST It contains almost all music present in Book One, split into three categories:

• City (C)
• Exploration (E)
• Fights (F)

Hello All, We just want to share with you our development plans for the next six weeks, as there is a lot of new things planned. In addition to working on Book Two, we will focus on the following things:

Combat Modes

Hello, last night we have released a small hotfix, addressing the following issues: First of all, we added Book of Old vol. 3 - at the end of level 4. Originally, it was meant to be located at the beginning of level 5, but we moved it as it sheds some light on the nature of the events that happened in the past - and should provide a good introduction to Book Two. (You also find out who Mr. P. was) Other small fixes:

• When you delete a save, there is a confirmation request now, so you do not accidentally delete a save game.
• Fixed Ancient Crafting quest - you can collect the items necessary to complete it.
• Fixed Report Issue popup, which was closing by itself when you pressed keys assigned to the exploration part of the game. So an official statement: previous difficulties were not intended as way to reduce the amount of feedback received :) --- please continue to swamp us with your suggestions for game improvements or reports about your issues. We are creating a game for you, not for ourselves.
• Fixed a rare bug, which caused game freeze on level 2, next to Ancient Forge.
• Added few interactions providing new information regarding the essences which are part of the Shade quest - it should be easier to locate them now.
• Fixed some graphical elements.

After countless days and nights, we finally managed to release a stable Linux build. Big thanks to all who helped us with testing it on various Linux distributions! We did not expect that it would be so time consuming, so Your help was invaluable.

Before you buy

• Build was tested on Ubuntu 17.04, Mint 18.2 and Debian 9 - those are the versions officially supported as of now. On clean installations of those systems the game is working as intended.
• We recommend to use NVIDIA 375 drivers, as newer drivers strangely can create occasional stuttering on some systems.
• In case you have problems playing cinematics - you need to install VLC package. However, on most systems it should not be required.
• Unity (our game engine) has some problems with full screen support on Linux sometimes. If that happens on some systems - you need to start the game with a command: -screen-fullscreen 0 This issue will be resolved shortly. If you encounter problems still, please send us an email to tot@evehor.com or join our discord server to let us know: https://discord.gg/RcvxZ2 Thanks. Cheers, KM
  
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Patch Notes 0.4.0.8656

Technical

• Keybinding - ability to remap keys to your preference.
• Advanced Graphical settings.
• New videoplayer - cutscenes should no longer freeze occasionally.
• 21:9 ratio support.
• 'Save' with double-click option.

Gameplay

• New end game area (Void sector) - completely redone, with new epic chain quest and with upgraded end game Boss.
• Crystal transmute option - located somewhere on level 3.
• Added cleave to all 2H Melee weapons as default.
• Modified range of distance weapons and their stats, to further differentiate them - moving towards clear risk/reward ratio and support vs pure dps categories.
• Changed some of the melee enemies, so they cannot be ignored so easily now.
• Rakhem / Runelord - few changes to his skills and stats to improve his role as melee tank/dps or hybrid melee/mage class.
• Upgrade cost for Artificer Hall is reduced, to take into account that at the moment it is a home to only one class.
• Rakhem and Boron join the party at level 2, Whisper at level 3.
• Some various graphical fixes.
• Small balancing changes to various skills - this time really minor changes.

Linux

EDIT 21.08:

Technical

Hello Linux users, We have progressed with the super annoying issue concerning cinematics (where an in-built player in Unity did not handle them well - they either did not play at all or froze randomly). We have replaced the player and it all seems ok now on our Linux installations - however, it sometimes requires new codecs, depending on Linux version. We are therefore looking for volunteers that use Linux, who would like to receive steam key and help us test it. The key can be used later for full game as well. The reason for that is that we cannot simulate all Linux environments (we run out of available PCs in our studio) and we shall not release a version that just MIGHT NOT work well. That is a primary directive that we always try to follow - never release something half-done. EDIT: thanks to all who submitted their specs and agreed to help us with the tests. We hope to have a date of Linux release very soon. Cheers, Event Horizon

Patch Notes 0.3.0.8362

Technical:

Gameplay:

We are over two weeks into Early Access I would like to ask for your feedback. It would help us a lot, if you could find few minutes of your time and list: pros & cons We are preparing for a long-term development now and your feedback would be extremely helpful when we decide on short-term and medium-term updates. Please send the email to: tot@evehor.com We will aggregate the results and share them later - as the list of things to come. (what is within our capabilities to do do). Thanks a lot! Cheers, KM

Next Tue we will release the next major patch. We are pretty happy with the combat balance at the moment - so this time just minor changes there - mostly to boss fights. Instead, we will add some options requested by the players and few other changes - there are clear two winners in our 'feedback' ranking: - adding an option to reset attributes to base stats and re-distributing points again - adding an option to transmute crystals into higher tier (not on level 1) For both options, this is what we planned to add on later levels as part of the lore, but we had received so many requests that we will gladly add this right now, so players can experiment with different builds. However, this patch in terms of content changes will be bigger than the previous one: - modify and shorten the introduction part of the game (above the tower) to offer more fun in less time. - item balancing - making item types more distinct - adding magic penetration on certain weapons (reducing elemental resistance) - adding more information about champions/enemies in combat - graphic changes, SFX changes/additions - fix to wands (especially dual wands) - fix to certain extreme scenarios (e.g. for dual wield sword with high attack speed and whirlwind enchants) - some enchants balancing As always, please share your feedback via report issue option - further changes in combat will be largely dependent on your voice. (And yes - level 3 and level 4 can be done on Epic difficulty. Thinking outside of the box - enchant-wise and skill-wise - will ensure your victory)

We have made some major changes in the last week. Big thanks to all who sent us a gameplay suggestion or reported a bug via REPORT ISSUE tool. The detailed patch notes follow:

TOP ONES

• Ability to GROUP-MOVE and GROUP-ATTACK – hold left SHIFT and press a location or an enemy – and all your champions will do just that.
• Added COMBAT STATS of your champions and the enemies: HP, Armor, Elemental Resistances. While in combat, move your cursor above the target to see the current value (so you can see how various skills affect the current statistics - why your champions deal 0 damage to the enemy or why your tanks drop suddenly drop so quickly). We will be expanding this section later.
• BOSSES are what they should always be: scary and challenging.They should require preparation before combat, on normal and higher difficulties.
• New ENCHANTING PANEL – clearly showing which enchantments are available and for which item types.

TECHNICAL:

• Lots of sources for occasional instability (camera issue or crash) were identified and removed.
• Sound issues were fixed – volume should stay constant.

GAMEPLAY:

• Added tool-tips on character screen.
• Accelerated item progression – Tier 2 items are toned down, start to appear frequently on level 3.
• Added information on difficulty level in save game information.
• Added information (on Main Screen) what each difficulty level means.
• Made changes to few skills – rebalancing, mana cost or booster(s) effects.
• Many typos / syntax changes.
• Reduced the potency of life-steal across the board (sorry).
• Added some sound effects.
• Added information that dual wield carries 50% penalty for off-hand weapon. Time to consider 2-handed weapons again.
• Progress bar – all “missing” events are removed, you can now achieve 100% progress. If you completed the level – just enter it again to update the progress to the correct value.
• Various changes/fixes to all levels and combat maps:
• Some gameplay elements are more visible,
• Reported graphic bugs,
• Missing dialogues,
• Textures fixed in Void sector,
• Sleath’s notes placed in correct order,
• Chest of plenty (exploit) removed,
• Camera freeze after Orc Leader defeated without using any explosives,
• … and plenty of others

COMBAT (major changes here):

Some of other related changes:

• Added information which skill is under which hotkey.
• Lots and lots of changes to all enemies and all battle encounters.
• Lots and lots of changes to Bosses and their battle encounters – they now should require a special preparation, on normal and higher difficulties.
• Adding new combat types: 1) Large enemies and 2) Swarm (short but very intense).
• Smoothing difficulty progression between all levels.
• Making all shields an item worthy of consideration now.
• Changed Armor and Armor Penetration stats – now armor penetration does come handy sometimes.
• Added new Battle Challenges with unique rewards – Beasts.

On Friday we will release our first major patch, addressing the feedback and issues received via REPORT ISSUE tool or posted on forums. Thanks a lot to all who are helping us to make this game better. Among many other things: - lots of changes to combat: (say ''hello'' to your tanks...) - smoothing the difficulty - between first and second level - accelerating item progression - adding tool-tips explaining various things Detailed patch notes will be pinned to the forum discussion area.

We have been getting quite a lot of questions regarding the content of Early Access from the story perspective, so here is the answer: Think of our game as a trilogy, where Early Access is Book 1. Here you uncover the history of the great devastation that happened long time ago. At the end of this part of the game - you find the answers to most of those questions. But new questions arise - and what you had believed so far, take on a new meaning, setting the grounds for Book 2. All quests in Early Access can be finished, all secrets uncovered. We do not plan to add anything new from the story perspective to this part.

Hello everyone. "First Patch" Achievement Completed We expected to be very busy today, 20h after the launch, but so far everything is running smoothly. So, just small fixes today. We will be collecting all the feedback and by end of next week we plan to release major update. Changes in this build: * Fix to SFX slider - which was resetting when you enter a new place * Small changes to teleportation - graphical effect and sound * Reduced volume for “collect treasure” sound Please use the tool in Settings - REPORT ISSUE - to get in touch with us. We are looking not only for bugs - but also all the comments you have about gameplay and combat.

We have launched on time and so far so good. No critical bugs reported. (we will release a patch shortly with few minor ones) Thanks to everyone who decided to give a chance to an early access title. ! Please use REPORT ISSUE tool, available via SETTINGS - for an easy report in-game, whether you have encountered a bug or have a suggestion or comment. Whatever you report, we see it instantly in our system.

Hello everyone. Good news! We managed to finish more areas before Early Access. We can officially announce, that our gameplay time is now 13-16h. We have also added: - Combat challenges with unique rewards - Epic difficulty - if you beat it, let us know :) (yes, it is doable) - New optional bosses - Automatic bug report/suggestion tool accessible from Settings - New achievements - New algorithms to our combat system Looking forward to your feedback! Event Horizon