Rogue Tower: Beginner Tips
Rogue Tower blends the chaotic gameplay of a tower defense game with the gradual, satisfying power creep of a roguelite. You must withstand an ever-growing horde of zombies, vampires, and other classic video game enemies as you protect your tower and explore the lands around you.
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While much of your success will rely on how nicely the game treats you with its branching paths and upgrade choices, there's a lot you can do to improve your chances. Tower placement and grinding for XP are only the tips of the iceberg when it comes to Rogue Tower.
As you expand the map in Rogue Tower, you'll uncover lots of pre-placed buildings and features that can be exploited by placing certain towers next to them. Some are more useful than others.
Of these, the most useful are Houses and Mana Veins. Extra gold and mana are always useful, especially when using expensive towers that eat up a ton of mana, such as Obelisks and Particle Cannons.
While exploiting Iron Veins for the extra protection can be useful in a pinch, it's a less useful strategy in the long run. Once you get to the later waves, it is simply impossible to out-health the determined opponents.
When trying to exploit adjacency bonuses, make sure you're placing towers on the same level as the resource you're trying to exploit. Having a Mana Siphon a level higher or lower than a Mana Vein is useless.
You can check whether a tower is working by clicking it. It will tell you what advantage it is providing.
The different levels you'll start to encounter as you expand the map aren't there to make the game prettier; they serve a strategic purpose.
A tower placed on a hill will gain a bonus to both its range and its power. Specifically, they will
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