Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos

18% of the longer reviews bring up RNG, randomness or the Bless system, and the complaints center on what the game offers at level-up. Players gear around a skill with legendary affixes and then never see that skill in the run: "Whenever I don't get offered the spells that I have built my items and blessings around its just such a frustrating slog." The Bless system is supposed to make a chosen skill appear more often, and 27 reviews say it barely works, with blessed skills showing up rarely or never; one short review just asks, "What does Bless Skill even do?" Bans and rerolls are too scarce to steer a run. Some reset any run that doesn't offer their key skill or a revive early. A minority likes the ban, bless and reroll tools and the chance of multi-level upgrades.

"A huge map with no interaction. You can literally stand in one place from the very start." 11% of the longer reviews say the maps give no reason to move or that runs blur together. They ask for events, shrines, side objectives, chests worth breaking, a minimap, more enemy variety and floors that look different. Some players who like the game raise it as well.

Difficulty spikes or specific enemies come up in 10% of the longer reviews. Players report hard walls at certain floors (5, 6, 12, 14 and 15 come up by name), with lines like "18 hours in and over 15 hours of it stuck on level 6." The enemy complaints are concrete: fast crows that auto-aim can't hit, exploding ticks that spawn right next to you ("Exploding ticks are BAD game design."), ice skeletons that burst into shards, elites that kill you if not killed in time, and dense ranged waves at the end of a floor. A smaller group argues the walls are learning checks and that farming the floor below solves them, and a few found the game too easy after later rebalancing.

8% of the longer reviews say most drops are useless. Grey and blue items are outgrown at once and the important rolls (weapon power in particular) decide everything, while most other stats are small. One player gave up asking why they were sifting gear for the best percentage when "the damage bonus is little more than a rounding error". Each run ends with a pile to sort and sell: "The sheer number of loot items that drop is too much to go through after every level." Some add that legendaries drop too often to feel special, while others say the right legendary is too rare. Players who do enjoy the loot say the excitement lives in legendary affixes.

Technical problems show up in 8% of the longer reviews. Crashes and freezes mid-run, especially in boss fights or at high enemy counts, come up most ("This game crashes 1/3 runs I do, sometimes it freezes the whole PC."), and one long-time player reports a memory leak that was later fixed. Others report frame drops in effect-heavy late runs, made worse because the level timer slows with the frame rate. A few lost all progress to save or cloud-save problems ("My data was deleted after one shutdown"). Several players say the game runs fine for them, including on low-end laptops.

7% of the longer reviews raise inventory and crafting chores: no search or sort in the stash, gems that can't be removed once socketed, identifying every item in town, runes and jewels filling slots, and an item comparison that is hard to read. One reviewer put it plainly: "Looking for good item/jewel rolls gets really tedious with the amount of loot you get and lack of search function in stashes or inventory."

6% of the longer reviews object to upgrades that cost a lot and change little: 0.1% crit per level, a 1 to 2% better chance of a multi-level skill offer per purchase, blacksmith upgrades that add a decimal. The complaint overlaps with the grind one above.

5% of the longer reviews say the characters only differ by their basic attack and special, since every class draws from the same skill pool: "All the skills are the same, so your warrior is shooting ice bolts and chain lightning." A related complaint is that upgrading the basic attack beats investing in skills, which narrows builds further. Skill trees added later helped for some.

Requests for tooltips, a tutorial or skill tags come up in 5% of the longer reviews. Players can't tell what area, range, cast speed or persistence affect, how dust and gem crafting work, or whether bonuses add or multiply. "The game is very poor at explaining the various boons and buffs your characters can get." A few defenders say it is easy to learn by experimenting.

Some players can't see enemy attacks through their own spell effects, especially when enemies use the same elements: "Enemy projectiles and AoE indicators are very hard to see with all the bogstandard screen clutter." The skill transparency setting added in early access helped, but late-game reviewers still ask for more options.

Some players want a dash or dodge for every class, and several find the hub too slow to walk around: "There's no reason for the movement speed in town to be that slow".

A handful of reviews mention the pop-up asking for a Steam review. A few answered it happily, and others marked the game down for it: "Review nag screens are always intrusive, annoying, and deserve anti-recommendations."