

There are also a number of single-player challenges available, where the player has to try and achieve a certain set of conditions depending on the challenge to succeed. This requires a more creative style of play, as the player has to try and overcome the physics and come up with various engineering solutions. Players need to try and place as many bricks on their tower as possible below a certain cut-off point. The Puzzle game mode is more slow-paced compared to the other two. They must focus on careful construction and smart application of spells to triumph. In Survival, the player must try and place a certain number of bricks on their tower without dropping too many and losing their health. Efficiency and construction speed are key to this game mode and it makes for a fast-paced and frantic game experience. In the Race game mode, players must compete to be the first to build a tower tall enough to pass the finish line.

The game has 3 distinct multiplayer game modes: Race, Survival and Puzzle. Spells are divided into Light and Dark magic categories – Light magic focuses on augmenting your tower while Dark Magic revolves around interfering with your opponents, such as damaging or weakening their towers, or meddling with their engineering efforts in other devious ways. During a match, there are 17 spells which can become available to the player. Players can use magic spells to assist themselves or to hinder opponents. The games are short and fast-paced and are easy to pick up and play.

The player takes control of one of the available wizard avatars and must, depending on the game mode, compete against other wizards in building his wizard tower to be as tall and stable as possible, and as quickly as possible. During the game, events may cause changes to the block physics, such as doubling in size, becoming slippery, or dropping at faster rates. Random blocks drop from the top of the screen and rows do not disappear, but blocks may fall off the tower. It features falling blocks but the goal is to stack blocks onto a tower rather than clear rows. Although there is some visual similarity to Tetris, the gameplay is entirely different. Tricky Towers uses physics based tower building game mechanics. In Puzzle mode with special difficulty, you get no magic and must build off a pole with wedges on the sides.

In Survival mode with Special difficulty, every player will have a random black magic effect on them from time to time. Special difficulty has a more varying amount of circumstances. Normal difficulty contain both black and white magic. The Easy difficulty mostly has no negative spells and only white magic. Players are ranked by who had the tallest tower but only can finish when one player touches the finish and stays for a few seconds. The finish line also lowers gradually as the time goes on. There are no penalties for losing blocks, and there are no lives. In Race mode, players must only build high enough to reach a finish line. People are ranked by the amount of blocks, the one with the most wins. When a block touches the laser line, you can no longer place any blocks but set your score of blocks. This penalty is that the base moves higher to the line. Like Survival mode, whenever a block is lost, a penalty is given. In Puzzle mode, players must stack as many blocks as possible onto a small base below a laser line. Players are ranked by who dies first to last or if all blocks are used, whoever reaches the timer first. As each player loses, the blocks falls faster. Players must either be the last tower remaining or finish the set amount of blocks to win. Whenever a block falls off below, they lose one life. In Survival mode, players have three lives. Sqaishey also recorded a separate episode on her channel, still featuring Stampy, where she plays the single-player part of the game. It was uploaded to YouTube on 9th August 2016. Stampy played and recorded a one-off episode with Sqaishey Quack where they play the different game modes in a 1v1 battle. Different skins and characters are available to choose as aesthetics. Spells can also be used at times to either harm your rivals (black magic) or help your own tower (white magic). So be sure to bring your wizard’s safety hat and start stacking and tumbling! Tricky Towers is a multiplayer physics-based tower building game with three different modes and difficulties, modes being Survival, Puzzle and Race and difficulties are by Easy, Normal and Special.
