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2024 Ranked #1,454

Tower Up

Every construction project changes the whole skyline. Raise your neighbours, reserve the best rooftop, and turn one shared city into your most profitable portfolio.

Family Games City Building Kill Steal Open Drafting

Players

2-4

Play time

30-45 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.84/5

Rating

7.33

Easier to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.5/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.4/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.5/5

Deep strategy

Player control 4.4/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 5 min
Teach time About 10 min
Table footprint Large
Recommended edition Tower Up – Monolith Board Games English edition (2024)
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How it plays

How does it play?

Raise a colourful 3D city one floor at a time, paying every neighbouring tower and racing to cap the most valuable skyline with your roofs.

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Tower Up is a family strategy game about turning a shared city map into a dense skyline of coloured plastic towers. On each turn, a player either takes a face-up resource card or founds a new building. Taking resources supplies floors in several colours and refreshes the card market. To build, the player chooses an empty site that is not adjacent to a tower of the same colour, then pays one matching floor for every neighbouring building. Each paid floor is added to its corresponding neighbour before a floor of the chosen colour starts the new tower. The builder caps one of the towers just affected with a roof and advances the matching construction vehicle on their personal board according to that tower’s height, scoring immediately. Because every new site raises several structures at once, opponents’ roofs can become taller and more valuable even while the active player claims a new one. Public planning objectives reward players who meet spatial or colour conditions first, and personal scoring tracks encourage a balanced portfolio of building colours. The game ends when a player places the last roof or reaches the end of a construction track; final points add tracks, roofed towers, and completed objectives. Optional modules and a double-sided board adjust variety without changing the quick take-or-build rhythm.

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Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Tower Up – Monolith Board Games English edition (2024) 2024 English Monolith Board Games / UK

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Play time
30–45 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.8/5
App
None app Source
Player elimination
No Source
Downtime
Low Source

Practicalities

Setup time
About 5 min Source
Teach time
About 10 min Source
Teardown time
About 5 min Source
Table footprint
Large Source

Campaign and continuity

Resettable
Fully Resettable Source
Save system
No formal save system; photograph the city, card row, objectives, player boards, roofs, and resource supplies to pause. Source
Consumable components
No consumable components. Source

Edition and product

Optional extras
Includes ten public objectives, optional modules, and a double-sided board for repeat play. Source
Recommended edition
Tower Up – Monolith Board Games English edition (2024) Source
Language
English
Region
UK
Availability
Current
Current edition
Yes Source
Box weight
1800 g Source
Box dimensions
29.6 × 29.2 × 7.0 cm Source
Consumable components
None. Source
Compatibility
Current Monolith Board Games English Edition, Product Montowerup And Barcode 3760271441809. Source
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

3
Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey Sébastien Pauchon

Artists

3
Nadège Calegari Laurent Escoffier Geoffrey Stepourenko

Publishers

1
Monolith Board Games

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