Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 12:08 am
Once Upon a Tower – Action Game Review
Once Upon a Tower is a Action/Casual game from Outbox SRL, first launched in 20th September 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 3,197+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Once Upon a Tower Stand Out
Ever wanted to escape somewhere else? Ever felt like you were trapped in a high tower? Ever found yourself waiting for the valiant knight to save you?
Wait no more!
Cause he isn't coming — No, really, he isn't. He was literally eaten by that guardian dragon over there.
But fear no more, you have all you need to set yourself free. The brave knight left behind his war hammer, I'm sure you can put it to good use, right?
You can beat the enemies. You can escape the dragon. YOU CAN DO THIS! Now let the adventure begin, once upon a tower.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Once Upon a Tower is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st January 2025
Recent improvements include:
This update contains stability improvements and general bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Once Upon a Tower is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Once Upon a Tower on App Store
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:
This game is so cute we love the cuteness in the graphics.we have a question is daliah supposed to be a mummy? If she was at least give her an Egyptian name. But over all awesome game.
We think that they should put levels in the game and a unlimited mode.
Our friend said this game was really fun and we got it and now we cant stop playing it.
We love this game and love the different princesses! This is in all a great game and we recommend it.
One of the most games that we play for hours! Thank u.
This game is entertaining were it is challenging but not hard.
Such a fun game we play it all the time its a game that will get you like a little mad but you never wanna stop playing it love it.
Well we mean you clouds make it a little better try makeing it more like star light adventure.
We mean the princess die so easy so you sorta need lives to keep going in the game.
This game is so much fun. Absolutely the best for a quick fix while, in line or in the waiting room lobby, etc…. But, we just have a few, idk, ? Question, suggestions, if we may… The holidays are coming up again. You need to do an update for Halloween and or Christmas (or both would be nice). But even more so.. Ive been playing this game for a long time, and we have no problem contributing our share by paying for extras and what nots, If, Im not left feeling like it was a wasted contribution. We hope you guys keep up with the times. Update with some kind of ending or into a new part of the castle, a different land….SOMETHING. The repetitiveness gets too old! If you dont give us change once in a while, we get bored and go onto other games to boost our curiosity. Also, and last suggestion, you should be able to carry your boost earnings over to the next life after you die. We were sad to learn after working hard to earn extra bombs, they were gone when our princess died. So all that work was for nothing. Our next princess (or life) couldnt benefit. We had to start all over again to earn enough to buy more bombs only to lose them again if she died ; ( All in all though, this game is so much fun! Aside from the couple matters of opinion, we love this game. So impressed with the characters and choice of princess we truly love ALL of them (Adding more would be cool though). The concept of the game is nice as well if you can add extra rooms or different castles. Good luck and keep up the great work. We love a good, challenging and beautiful to look at game. ~Smilz~.
This game is so fun. We love all of the characters and the enemies. There are so many levels and we just dont know when it will end.we just love this app.
We cant stop playing it! Its so entertaining and fun.
Its a really great game but sometimes when you die in the game and you watch an ad so that you have a 2nd life when you finish the game you either instantly die due to some monster which is meant to die as well or (this happens more often) you dont get a 2nd life and you had already finished watching the ad which is really irritating but other than that it is a great game and definitely suggest it to everyone.
We can't stop playing this game! That's how awesome this game is.
Great way to pass the time and addicting. Love the level of difficulty and diversity of princess available. Our only issues is while trying to complete the hit villains while falling level we believe it is not counting accurately.
Good game hope they would give some perks in the game good for time to pass.
We thoroughly enjoyed the game; you people have hit it out of the park. We'd say that it's way past time for a second version of this game or, a serious update to this one. We're going through withdrawal over here.
This is fun and funny! Play this game! Also no glitches! You have to love it.
Its a really fun and addicting game.
It took us thousand times to scape the tower with chicken, but there is no more challenges after that, just 21. We were thinking the whole time" what's next? Kill the dragon? Talk to pigs? It was super hard, but we did it. We can scape the tower every time that we play but with chicken.
A good game that is very cute with many character designs. This kind of reminds us of Pac-Man, for some reason. Keep up the good work.
This game is really quite fun! We saw it on the app of the day page and downloaded it just to try it out. Next thing we know im totally enthralled! 10/10 wold recommend.
Oh our goodness, we have been waiting for an all female character game for a long time, and this game delivered! Its addictive and fantastic. Thank you so much for this.
This is an awesome game!!!! The beginning is so funny! Poor guy though. We love how challenging it is and all the characters!! It would be cool if you could build your own character! But we really like the characters you have put!! Personally we think this game is for everybody! If you like fairytales this is definitely the game is ideal One quick question does this game have an end Ive always wondered does the princess ever get out of the tower?? Its December, we think you should have a Christmas theme! It would be cool it the dragon had a Santa hat!! Another question can you fire a the dragon we know you can with the dragon stones but can you with the dragon?? Ive never actually tried it though. We just want to say its an amazing game!!!! Another question does the guy come back?? And what happens when you unlock all of the characters do you just keep playing but then theres no goal? There should be a hammer that breaks stone! Right! Anyways we love this game !! And the fact that you added Scagoewea is just awesome!! Whoevers idea that was should get a raise!! We love this game but it needs an update! We really want a Christmas theme. Thats it! Hope more people get this game if they do they WILL LOVE IT.
This is the most awesome game that we have ever played before we love that we can play as the princess and rescue ourselves from the dragon and we recommend it to anyone who feels like they are princesses and are not getting respect . We hope that other players love this game as much as we do. Also we would like to recommend a series of games to go with it too.
We can only revive once through watching ads, there should be other ways to earn hearts to revive. We wish there were short instructions for the goals so that they are more clear because sometimes we read a goal and Im not able to comprehend what to do exactly in game in order to achieve it. Lastly, the lucky wheel does NOT need 3 chickens. Which gives us the idea that a heart can be made available in an item box and added it to the wheel. Honestly, Id like to see you guys try getting anything BUT a chicken from that wheel.
We just wish you didnt have to buy most of the princesses, but its super fun.
It crashes soooooo much. And it will restart us without the firefly amounts we had. Please fix this issue! Its such a fun game.
This is pretty much one of our favorite games, but it has one major, extremely frustrating issue, which is the swipe control. About 50% of the time, we lose because we intended the character to go in one direction and it moves in another. Plenty of other games have perfectly acceptable swipe controls so we dont see why this is still a problem. At least add an option to use different controls if you wont fix these. The fact that we keep coming back to this game despite this issue is a true testament to how fun it is.
We like playing this game on our iPhone but if there was an option to control the lighting we would love it more! Also could look into shortening the ads cause waiting for those to end is just not something we want to be doing.
Not once but TWICE we have attempted to purchase extra lives- but have not received them. We were definitely charged for them- do not make purchases on this app.
Every time we finish the first level and start to fall down , it always says "loading" but the game will kick out , so we can't get to the 2nd level , and so on , and so forth , so please fix because we're in love with the game.
Fun game to play while on the toilet.
This game is really fun but since ima boy we like playing in boy skins so maybe you could add prince characters with swords id really appreciate it thank u guys for this wonderful game.
Very addicting however one suggestion is adding an explanation of some of the missions to help with understanding how to do them.
This is a really fun and challenging game, with a cute design! But we think its a shame that you cant see the princesses descriptions (e.g. The dragon is nothing compared to the conquistadors) once youve unlocked them. All youd have to do is add an extra confirmation screen with the description after tapping the portrait. Not a huge difference! One bug report: in the Halloween update, Oscuras hammer changes to black to match the color of the tower. One question: If Dalilah is a mummy, why does she have a Hebrew name? Why not an Egyptian name, or even a Greek or Roman name? Is she supposed to be a Hebrew slave who was mummified? And if shes supposed to be the Biblical Delilah (we cant check the description to make sure), why is she wrapped in bandages like a mummy? Is there a pop culture reference we didnt get.
We adore this game! Its rather difficult but the strong female lead aspect draws us in, and its not one of those pay to play free game traps that a lot of apps are.
Its a great game, love playing but the glitches are such a turn off. Sometimes the animals can run through you without you dying. Sometimes we swipe our finger to the right and it sends the signal as if we swiped our finger downwards. Its just too many glitches. Every time we play the game there is at least 5 glitches. And it kind of makes you want to stop playing the game. Needs MAJOR IMPROVEMENT.
Unresponsive, repeatedly gives us "new best!" When we mess up and die on the top of the tower (our best was when we got to the bottom of level 3) so we're pretty sure it's fake af, also it randomly adds and removes things to fight.
We were finally going to pass our old score level 8 and the game glitch. The princess stood floating in the air. We were enjoying the game a lot but after that deleted it.
This game is super cute and fun. We love all the little characters and the art style. It is very addicting and fun to play. We recommend it to all our friends and family.
This games easy to play and really fun ! You get lots of lives and chances to keep playing even after you have no lives.
Fun tapping game to fill those quiet moments but it has just enough of a skill curve to draw you in and cause you to end up playing for quite awhile longer.
We think if you could give a free power up every 1h instead of every other day, it would bring a lot more players! Anywho Really good game keep it up.
Simple gameplay and top notch game design make this a winner. As you make your descent from the tower watch for the guards, spiders, spikes and other dangers. It's time to show the dragon who's boss.
Really great game, im in love.
You may not like it but it is addictive.
This is like minions with dwagons and shooting.
Ofc its one of the greatest game of all time :) , cong u guys made it … Hard to play but its really fun . We have just one problem that challenge 8 hit back a log we dont understand it , and cant complete that challenge so any idea explain us how to complete that Challenge ????? Oh yeah there is some bug after we die it says Watch Video and live haha , and after watch that 30sec video nothing happening and im still dead princess.
We so love this game. No big, complicated strategy other than thinking fast and using your power ups (we always watch the video to spin the fortune wheel for an extra power up when available!) we were a big fan of Mars:Mars and Pomelo Games is showing again that they know how to create visually fun and very entertaining games.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 47
- Size: 226.15 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Outbox SRL
Last updated: 21st January 2025 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Outbox SRL