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Control Tower Free – Casual Game Review
Control Tower Free is a Casual/Action game from Bojan Skaljac, first launched in 26th August 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 174+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Control Tower Free Stand Out
Guide aircraft to their landing zones and do not let them collide!
This sounds easy? You will need good strategy and fast fingers to draw flight paths and keep the chaos under control.
WARNING:Insanely Addictive!
FEATURES
- Classic game mode with 6 different planes and helicopters
- Online highs cores
- Achievements (6)
- Countless hours of addictive gameplay
- No 1 air traffic controller game
Similar games: Air Control,Air Traffic Control
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Control Tower Free is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th February 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Solved minor problem with video ads
Download & Availability
Control Tower Free is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Think it's a really fun game. Would love some new levels.
Great game to pass the time, especially on an airplane! Love the choice of slow/fast speeds. Love the consistency, challenging, but does not continue to get harder. We like you use you brain, other games just do the same thing over and over.
This is a great game for rising managepower.
It's not a bad app, it is just not for us. There used to be game like this and it was way better. We have not had it in a while and they took it off the App Store, but it was an amazing game. This one is the same idea we just don't really enjoy it. Not for us but maybe some others will like it.
We think the app is awesome but the fact that it crashes when we start a new game makes it deserve 1 star. Good thing we didn't get the full version.
Very challenging at higher speed.
This game is absolutely a work of art, maps are great, and achievements are challenging and fun! But we would appreciate a new map, just one! Then it would be a five star.
Nice little game to relax or kill your time.
The little planes are just like our life's tasks in the air and on the runway! Challenging and fun.
The military jet should be faster The commercial jet image should be larger The twin engine image is drawn goofy.
You have to buy the full version to get the maps and achievements. You do start out with 1 map though.
Former flight control was great, this one is Ok.
The planes have different speeds which is fun, but when you touch a plane it tends to go in a circle. If you use a lighter touch, it wont respond. Very frustrating. It needs a sound when the planes are entering the pattern.
Do miss our flight control. This is as close as it gets to flight control. Ill give a 3 stars due to too many commercials.
A technical replica of the original Flight Control, this remake falls short of providing a convincing replacement. The charm and care with which the former was created is lacking here, it if those details can be overlooked it fits the bill.
We paid for the full version thinking that would get rid of ads – but there's no way. They are extremely long video ads constantly. It ruins what could be a fun game. We'd rather have an option to pay $4 and never see the ads or have only minor ones.
Lacks the charm of FlightControl, which was 1000 times better. No music, only 1 map for the free version and you get bombarded with ads. Plus getting to continue playing by watching an ad? Good idea for kids but just gives a pass for everyone else to continually fail. Two stars for same gameplay idea.
Great game mod classic. Way too many ads.
Why the plane colors don't make it clear which plane need to land on which runway is beyond us. Tired of repeated try and error that is in the way of the actual game objective, uninstalling it.
The game is very challenging and long lasting even for beginners. The problem is that some of the aircraft cannot be controlled and as a result, crash. Other issue is that aircraft enter as helicopters are landing and there is no time to react. It is very frustrating especially when you are doing well and have a high score. We view this as cheating. We continue to enjoy the game during long waits at appointments, but we are always ready for the ever present frustrations and disappointments.
The screen size looks like it was designed for an iPhone 6 and was weirdly scaled on our iPhone 11. The developers have the audacity to run ads between tries, but cant bother to scale the screen size. If you want someone to pay, you need to bother to develop for newer devices.
We want Flight Control back! We cant believe it was removed! This version is terrible and only has one level! Unless youre willing to pay! We are deleting it.
We just dont like it, having played the original.
Worse version of flight control.
We think it's a great game, we haven't had any issues with ads like some people were saying and the game never crashed! We are very happy that someone made a free version of this we know that the original flight control game was free but they recently made it $1. Thanks game developers.
We love this game, us and all of our friends play it. Our parents even play it sometimes, it's great.
Great app, but it's annoying when you get to 437 and then it crashes when you go to submit your score.
When you draw the line for the plane to follow, it is a little tiny. When you start it goes slowly. We pressed the speed up button and things went a little faster. It did not have a tutorial, although that might be because we previously had it. The game also doesn't cover the full screen. Otherwise, it was good. The landscape looked nice.
Great app and well designed. However, it seems that memory is not being released properly, or somehow, the base memory is being accessed causing the app to crash! Wish it could be fixed.
We like the game but it keeps crashing. Removing form iPad.
This game is decent but it's really annoying how even with sound on it vibrates ever single time we land a plane.
App consistently crashes/closes during game. Why would we keep playing.
The quality is terrible and we have the itouch 5 and it doesn't fit the screen very slow.
The graphics were so bad our eyes hurt right away. Terrible version.
This game is a horrible choice. It crashes every minute and we have an iPhone 5s! Time to delete.
Always ask to buy the full version. There is only one level. No fun.
Game crashes every 60 seconds or so. We never see the ad banner we see people posting about, so we're guessing the game crashes when it tries to disply it. We're deleting this and getting something else.
We understand ad based free games, but when the ad banner obscures crucial parts of the game, it's just blatant pressure to buy the full version. We think there needs to be a better way of doing the ads, like a time based pop up before starting a round or something that doesn't make the whole gameplay totally frustrating. Time to delete this one, unfortunately.
It keeps shutting down in the middle of the game! Also the ad banner on the runway is extremely annoying! Boo! Uninstall.
Okay so we accept an update to "fix minor bugs." Update includes an Ad Banner on the landing field! Great update.
Works fine on our ipod. Please add more planes.
Piece of crap you have to reset your iPod stupid app it will freeze no joke DONT GET THIS APP ~.
We enjoy this type of game, however the planes come on too slow and it's very boring. We are referring to the fast forward mode, which should be normal speed. Need to add an even faster speed or make planes come on quicker. We were bored by about 200 planes. We didn't want to crash on purpose, but it got so boring that we had to. After 618 planes and 60 minutes of gameplay, we were done with this game. We wish we couldve played 6 rounds of faster gameplay in that time.
Grafics and messed up our iPod for an hour.
Do not get in glitches your iPod/iPhone really dumb when you play too.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.12
- Size: 12.61 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Bojan Skaljac]()
Last updated: 4th February 2016 | Genre: Casual, Action | Developer: Bojan Skaljac