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D&D meets Franchise Manager, Gargadusa’s Tower is a supremely deep guild management simulation that spans generations. Build your adventurer guild from nothing. Recruit heroes, complete quests, and descend the mysterious tower to confront the power that lies within.
717 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
8 months, February 2026 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 434 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 283 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Gargadusa's Tower was released on 18 Feb, 2026.
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41 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 · times in UTC
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Patch notesThe new CCL is here and I am stoked!The CCL has been core to the annual experience in GT1, but it was one of the first systems I designed and over time piled up a good amount of tech debt and, frankly, felt just kind of outdated. Enter the…
Math Team━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BUG FIXES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The Gold Investment Fund's +25% now reaches every income source it should — quest gold, loot and material sales, trade profit, crafting commissions, and faction-vendor…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEATURES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CCL ReworkStep 1 of the CCL Rework is now live on Beta. There is A LOT here, but I want to save all of the details for when the feature is pushed to the live version.…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BUG FIXES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Crown Cup & TowerWinning your Crown Cup bout now crowns you. A Cup match you fight is decided by the leg the arena shows you, so the standings, coronation and bracket…
Patch notesEach week seems to be coming with new and exciting features that have been a long-time coming, this week's is World Events. I am trying to be smart about this particular rollout because the World Events system touches almost everything in…
Math Team━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BUG FIXES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Combat & Watch boardHex Battles now work on multiplayer quest results, matching raids and single-player.A hero who falls to an off-battle mishap on a clean victory now…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEATURES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━World Events are now live. This is a very large system that touches everything and has a lot of infrastructure, so I am just launching a few simple World Events to…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEATURES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Now that the Hex Battle System is up and ripping, I am pushing to make Tower bosses a bit more moar. I'm going through all 100 and defining them uniquely with skills…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEATURES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The Tower MusterI received a bunch of great feedback this week after the new Tower Loadout launched on Wednesday that folks missed being able to group by parties. So! I…
Math TeamPatch Notes: v2.0.0-beta.4029 (Live)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEATURES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"The Shield of Hiltcrest" book is now up on Steam as a DLCIt feels very fancy to have a support DLC, but it's extra neat to have it…
Math Team━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEATURES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TowerSend a scout below your front line to chart the floors ahead of you. Pick how deep to sound: the frontier (one floor down, 2 weeks) can be run solo, but two or…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEATURES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The Tower DescentOookay, the new Tower loadout process is now up for Beta players. This feature is still in the works, so I am 1000% looking for input, requests, and…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BUG FIXES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hiring & RosterHiring a gatherer or building-gated crafter no longer strands you on the "Staff Signed" celebration with no way out — the quick-hire menu and the C…
Patch notesHex Battle System Performance HotfixWatching a hex battle is smooth again. Some players were hitting lag and I knocked out a pile of efficiency hardening that should solve the issue. This is why I wanted to sneak in a patch today, so some…
Math Team━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FEATURES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The Tactician's DeskI've been teasing for quite some time that the Tactician was going to become a star cornerstone of your guild someday, and that day is today.Press T…
Patch notesThe Hex Battle System goes live — every fight now plays out on real ground, with terrain, range and damage type deciding outcomes instead of a single power number. Plus Rival Guild Duels, Party Reservations, nine new battlefields, and a…
Math Team━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BUG FIXES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Battle Reports & ReplaysAn adventurer the fight left injured, or retired near-death, no longer shows 0 damage taken. Their debrief line is floored at the health they…
Patch notes────────────────────────NEW FEATURES──────────────────────── - Clicking any staff portrait opens a mini-dossier — level, tier and skill, current task with progress, wage, contract years and experience bar — with an Open Dossier button that…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────Range ChangesHeads up that I just pushed an update to class attack ranges yesterday and ended up actually really disliking the feel and balance impact today during testing, so I…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────CCL Duels (Early ELO System)- Guild standings gain a sortable ELO column, and your division header shows your rating and rank tier beside it.- Rival guilds now carry a real…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────Reserved Deployments- Reserve a raid or a Tower descent while your parties are still in the field: pick the full formation, and the reservation holds those parties off every…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────Multiplayer Trading- Multiplayer trading with other guildmasters now lives in Markets under a new League tab.- The League Lobby now points you to the League tab, and the Tower's…
Patch notesHoly moly there is a lot going on with Gargadusa right now. So much, in fact, that I'm going to skip Live patch today so that the Beta can get some more miles before I flip the switch.I know, I know. I'd usually just rip it, but I am…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────The Battle EngineAfter 10 weeks of building a new battle engine and slowly sneaking the backend logic into the game over the last month, it's now ready for beta play. The math is…
Patch notesThe Dwarves Have Come to HiltcrestThere is a knock at your gate, and it is not a courier. It is a Dwarven delegation, anvils and all, and they have a proposition.The Deepforge Compact is a new mid-game system: a Dwarven crew that quarters…
Math Team──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────- Patrols is now "mostly" done ;) Enjoy the freedom to assign a party to a region and that party will automatically pick up quests that pop-up in that zone. This will become very…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────- The commander's patrol recommendation is now a written ask in the Commander's Ledger: a ⚑ Patrol entry naming the region, with a six-week deadline. Stationing a patrol there by…
Patch notesTwo weeks ago I pushed a big update to Beta: the War Table, a living map of the frontier, and a rework of how leveling and XP work game-wide. For the full breakdown of those two systems, I highly recommend reading the XP & Leveling and War…
Math Team──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────- Sage's Wisdom gains a "Limit Break" entry laying out how an adventurer's potential ceiling can rise: a dangerous win, an adventurer already near their ceiling, one break per…
Math Team──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────- At a Tier 3 Wellspring, a completed Mastery Path lets you choose the reawakened ability from the slot's pool instead of rolling for it. The dossier's charge buttons now read…
Patch notes\I am very excited to finally push this update, it's been a long time coming.Today marks a game-wide update that fundamentally unifies how XP is acquired, how Leveling works across all unit types, and how Stats are earned. In short…
Math TeamHave fuuuuuuunnnnnnn!
Math TeamAnother massive weekly Live update is upon us! There are a ton of new goodies this week, but most updates are focused on improving existing systems (that's my theme for July). The Garrison ReturnsThe Garrison overhaul is back on: skirmishes…
Math Team━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Custom DifficultyTwo new Custom Difficulty sliders — Quest Enemy Strength and Raid Enemy Strength — multiply the enemy power rating (ROVR) of newly posted quests and…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────Star Chart- The Registry's Star Chart is now a living night sky. Every hero pursuing an ambition is a star, its shape and glow set by their journey — a crossroads ring while…
Patch notesThe Garrison ReturnsThe Garrison overhaul is back on: skirmishes and squad fatigue, weekly upkeep with salvage patrols, outpost fortifications, a second garrison slot with doctrines, depth-scaled manning with tower call-ups, granular…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NEW FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The StarsCapricorn Resonance — adventurers born under Capricorn fight with +2 to every stat on Tower floors 90–100, gain a battle-narration beat, and earn +2…
Math Team──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────- Your Commander now sounds the alarm when a revealed troublemaker is dragging morale down: a recurring crisis briefing names the instigator or bully responsible and escalates…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────- Your workshop now builds a guild-wide Craft Reputation, raised by completing commissions and shown in the crafting panel. Climbing the tiers (Recognized, Respected, Renowned…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────- New Interface Icons display setting lets you render UI icons as clean monochrome glyphs. We're getting fancy af over here.- The Commander's Ledger now tracks every…
Patch notesWith the short patch cycle since Monday's last live patch, the notes are bit shorter than usual ;) That being said, most of July I will be spending revisiting and updating OLDER systems and aspects of the game I've been meaning to upgrade.…
Math Team──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────Receptionist Dashboard- A fancy new Receptionist tab in the Registry surfaces the Receptionist's master renewal controls, enable, budget cap, and priority, without digging into…
Patch notesI had a very productive weekend and I just couldn't wait until Wednesday to push these updates ;)Long story short, I wanted the improved UI/UX for Ambitions Live asap since the first pass was not clear (my apologies), so a sneaky Monday…
Math Team━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Heroes & EvolutionFour new apex classes join the roster: the Dryad (an ultra-rare grove-healer who shields the whole party in living bark, roots enemies, and pours…
Patch notes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The Adventurer DossierThe Adventurer Dossier has been fully redesigned with a richer "Guild Dossier" presentation across every tab. It is now fancy AF.A new Ambition…
Patch notesThis week marks another big step in the Class/Abilities/Synergies rework that I've been batching each week: Ambitions are now properly online. Long story short, focus on the individual adventurer is top priority for me currently (outside of…
Math Team──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────The Upgraded Ambition SystemThis week marks another big step in the Class/Abilities/Synergies rework that I've been batching each week: Ambitions are now properly online. Long…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────Multiplayer- Every player in a league now sees the same world. Rival standings, division ranks, and the other humans' guilds are read from the shared server, so two players no…
Patch notes──────────────────────── NEW FEATURES ────────────────────────- Doom Deadline is now optional. Toggle on/off the 1,000 year deadline or drop it to 50 years to turn up the pressure. Toggle it off entirely to play forever. The Crown Cup…
Patch notesEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
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| Gargadusa's Tower - The Shield of Hiltcrest Book | WindowsmacOSLinux | 25 Aug 2026 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
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| Launch | GargadusasTower.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | GargadusasTower.app | macos | ||
| Launch | GargadusasTower | linux |
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