Tower Factory, a tower defense indie with base building and exploration from developer and publisher Gius Caminiti, has just released a new Steam page. Fans of the genre can now wishlist the game, discover official screenshots, and review key gameplay features.
In Tower Factory, players must build and upgrade a factory, producing towers to defend against waves of enemies. You’ll have to continue expanding in order to explore procedurally generated levels, and find the enemy castle.
Tower Factory is currently expected to launch sometime in 2024. It will be available on PC via Steam, with no word on support for other platforms. Although Caminiti is based in Spain, and today’s tweet was in Spanish, the Steam page is in English.
Tower Factory doesn’t have much of a theme, but it still has some clever twists, and the visuals are pretty and polished. The stages look just as colorful and cozy as Caminiti’s previous game Summer Trip Cruise.
Summer Trip Cruise was a casual captain sim, which has more of an inventive hook. But I do appreciate the way that Tower Factory incorporates exploration and unpredictable levels. Many times, tower defense games are innately stagnant. In fact, they tend to rely on theme alone to succeed.
Automating your towers in order to progress will likely have a lot more replay value than leaping from one static world to the next.
The new Steam page mentions that players must “find and destroy the enemy castle before it becomes too powerful”.
This would create a better sense of urgency, while also expanding the scope. You’ll need to survive increasingly difficult in-game day/night cycles, and enemies are more active at night. Overall, there should be enough here to subvert expectations.
Tower Factory has a slick, streamlined premise that will feel more accessible for genre newcomers and skeptics. But longtime fans may enjoy the creative tweaks most.
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