The Gacha RPG Tower of Fantasy has been released:

Version 2.0 "Vera" is now available!

Play now to venture into the unknown and forge your cyberpunk destiny together!

1. New Map: Vera
The dangerous Land of Sand where the Grayspace Entities, Abyssants, and the charming cyberpunk city, Mirroria, are waiting for your exploration.

2. New Simulacrum/Matrix: Ruby is here
The all-new Ruby (Flame, Attack) is here, accompanied by Spark, the powerful weapon to take on a new adventure with us. Unlock the limited Matrix: Ruby to experience the unique mastery mechanism for the offense and defense.

3. New Story "Land of Sand"
The unsolved puzzles hidden behind Ruby's cheerful and innocent face, the link between the machinery puppet's rebellion and mysterious Abyssant...Conspiracies beneath the sands are to be uncovered.

4. New Challenges & Level Cap
The all-new instances, Joint Operation: The End Game and Joint Operation: Sadness Valley, are now available. The level's cap is increased to 80. Become an even stronger Executor using the new unlocked combat engine.

5. New Events & Rewards: Claim red nucleus for free
Log in to participate in the Vera Supply Run event, Mirroria Tour, and more. Claim red nucleus, premium equipment, and stylish extrinsic rewards!

In Tower of Fantasy, dwindling resources and a lack of energy have forced mankind to leave earth and migrate to Aida, a lush and habitable alien world. There, they observed the comet Mara and discovered an unknown but powerful energy called "Omnium" contained in it. They built the Omnium Tower to capture Mara, but due to the influence of Omnium radiation, a catastrophic disaster occurred on their new homeworld.

Immersive Open-World
Experience a vast alien world full of beautiful open vistas and imposing futuristic structures.

Unique Characters
Wield the unique weapons of each character that grant different gameplay styles as you explore their compelling backstories.

Grow and Explore Together
Party up with friends online and take on new adventures in the shared open world.

Epic Combat
Engage in epic battles against enemies of all shapes and sizes as you switch weapons and gameplay styles on the fly to unlock your own personal fighting style.

Explore and Interact
Explore and interact with a vibrant living world as you discover your own journey through it.

PC Gamer checked out the new Gacha RPG Tower of Fantasy:

Tower of Fantasy is a messy Genshin Impact with few ideas of its own

Tower of Fantasy is out today and it sure looks familiar.

The most charitable way I could describe Tower of Fantasy's relationship to Genshin Impact would be "inspired." It's so deeply inspired by Hoyoverse's anime character action game that it  would be easy to shrug it off as one of the many mobile clones you see show up in ads trying to convince you they're where the real players are at. Its uncanny resemblance to Genshin is the hardest thing to get over in its opening hours, kind of like trying to get over how much Genshin felt like Breath of the Wild when it came out. But if you can grimace through it and restrain your cynicism, the MMO-like systems it introduces could be what sets it apart.

Tower of Fantasy copy-pastes a lot of Genshin's most impressive aspects as well as its most egregious. Let's take stock:

• It's an open world game where the planet is under attack by monsters and they reside in camps strewn throughout the world.
• Anime characters—who are, in this case, mostly Evangelion rejects—have to save said planet.
• The aesthetic is both bright and fantastical, but also sci-fi and grim like the '90s anime, and Hoyoverse's other action game, Honkai Impact 3rd.
• It's a gacha game where you grind resources and dailies like it's your job or pay real money to get a chance at earning one of its characters.
• Even when you get one of those characters, who are linked to their unique weapons, you need to level them up equal to your current progression in the game.

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Tower of Fantasy ultimately uses Genshin as a lure to get you into its world and systems. Gacha games mimic the most familiar parts of other games for a reason: they want you in as fast as possible so that there's a chance you might spend some money. Tower of Fantasy is as guilty as any other game with systems built to exploit your desire to make playing it easier. But it also suggests it might add compelling layers on top of the framework of Genshin, like how other players can seamlessly phase into your world and fight by your side or how you can equip temporary tools (each categorized like MMO archetypes) like a mech suit to deal huge amounts of damage. Genshin always flirted with MMO-like ideas, so if Tower of Fantasy successfully incorporates enough parts of that genre, it could be a worthy counter to Hoyoverse's mostly lonely world.

For much of its opening hours, Tower of Fantasy is a messy game that doesn't have a clear vision for what makes it distinct from all the other options out there. It chose Genshin as the template, which, as far as templates go, isn't a bad choice. It successfully made me want to poke around its world and knock around its dinky enemies. I can't really say no to any of that, I just wish it spent a little less time assuring me it's like the thing I've played before and more time convincing me on the things that make it unique.