Tricky Towers is an arcade developed by WeirdBeard, released 2 August 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What Tricky Towers is
Tricky Towers is an arcade game developed by WeirdBeard and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tricky Towers is a physics-based tower building game puzzle video game that uses a form of the block-stacking problem as the central game mechanic. It was released on digital distribution service Steam for Windows, OS X, and Linux, and for the PlayStation Plus service in August 2016, before being released on PlayStation 4 a month later. It was released on Xbox One on September 18, 2017, and on the Nintendo Switch on October 11, 2018.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, kids and party. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 29 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Tricky Towers holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 86 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.73 GHz Intel Pentium M or higher and 1 GB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Tricky Towers launched on 2 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu and Overcooked!. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu, Overcooked!.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tricky Towers yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 4 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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