Color Tower

Why We Picked Color Tower

Color Tower is the sort of arcade game you lose before you have worked out what the score rewards. Speed is the difficulty dial here, not complexity; the rules stay simple while the screen gets busier. No story, no tutorial, and no reason to stop at the first attempt. It has 1,857 plays here, which on this shelf is less a verdict than a survival rate. For reference: 4.3 out of 5 from 63 ratings, and 318 of 500 on the arcade shelf.

How to Play

The page documents very little, so these are the things worth knowing before you spend time on it:

• Dismiss any download or pop-up a game triggers; the run continues without it.
• A run ends when you are caught, and the score is the only thing that survives it.
• Leave the sound on until the cues are familiar, then decide.

Editor’s Note

A solo game, mostly: the competition is the score rather than another person. It asks for one clean input and punishes a sloppy one, which is the whole contract.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.