About This Game Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation! The Devil has converted a tenement building into monsters-only housing, and has big plans for the future. Sucker monsters into moving into your building, charge them rent and keep them happy by buying them furniture.Unfortunately, heroes have caught wind of the Devil's plan, and will stop at nothing to wipe him out. Knock on residents' doors to call them to battle, trap heroes in devious pincer formations, and command your troops to victory. Monsters get jobs, fall in love, have children, and even skip out on their rent. Keep them happy or you might not have anyone to fight for you when heroes come knocking. But don't be too soft: there's always prospective baddies looking to move in, so kick out the freeloaders when the time is right! Being a landlord is a difficult job, but it can't be harder than running Hell...right?Every monster is different. Some are lazy. Some are strong. Some are perverts.Use an intuitive mouse-based control scheme to command your troops into battle.Encounter more than 20 different monster species, and take their money.Build a reputation with different monster families based on your performance and play style.Take on quests at your pace to unlock new monsters and furniture.Build a stronger army as residents have children far stronger than themselves.Get monsters in the mood for love with inappropriately shaped erotic cakes.Look on in horror as lovingly hand-drawn monsters and humans horribly slaughter each other over money. Monster occupations, hobbies and desires are all procedurally generated to keep you on your toes. 1075eedd30 Title: Unholy HeightsGenre: Indie, Simulation, StrategyDeveloper:Petit DepottoPublisher:AGM PLAYISMFranchise:PLAYISMRelease Date: 16 Aug, 2013 Unholy Heights Great and engaging time killer. It starts out fairly simple: Fill up your apartment complex with powerful monsters who can not only fight, but can pay their rent. Use rent money to buy upgrades to keep the tenants happy and ultimately strong enough to fight off the heroes who want you dead. The heroes get stonger and the games gets pretty challenging, forcing you to strategically room your monsters and try to keep the commplex full. Worth playing. Love it.. An apartment management tower-defense game about your resident monsters against humans. While the idea of being a landlord is enticing the tower-defense part can get incredibly tedious & repetitious since there's not a whole lot of strategy to use here from beginning to end.The idea of the tower-defense is just to stop humans from stealing your money and if they get away with it you only lose your highly expendable tenant should they have died defending the money taken so there's no real fail state. You try and stop the humans by knocking on the room doors of the monsters of your choosing and IF they're home (which most usually are) they'll do their tower-defense thing and help kill the intruders. As you get further into the game you're able to invite specific higher tier monsters depending on what monster race you've been appealing to or otherwise. To get further into the game & earn faster money though you've got to go do quests from a quest board. While every quest grants you money there are quests that unlock new monsters for you to be able to have in your apartment, quests that unlock a new piece of furniture you can buy for your tenants, and main quests that finally allow you to expand your apartment one floor at a time. The downside to this though is that every quest from side to important are essentially all the same "stop the humans" only with varying wave numbers and a few human types with soon to be higher stats. Whatever strategy you had against weaker humans you can do the exact same thing against the stronger humans with stronger monsters in somewhat bigger numbers because the monsters you get aren't entirely different either aside from the stats when it comes to being useful in defending.The landlord simulator part is at least more intriguing. The job is primarily housing interested monsters of your choosing and appealing to their tastes by adding or improving things in their apartment, sometimes specifically when needed as some monsters prefer having certain items in the room depending on their race and/or job. It's a bit more taxing to house monsters when you have a certain race that's disliked by another race living in the same structure. You can still appeal to both but getting them to all be satisfied in their living quarters would take much longer.There's a maximum of 3 vacancies per room where each vacancy specifically houses one tenant, that tenant's lover, and those two's child. So long as one tenant in a room is satisfied and alive they'll eventually find a lover and conceive a child who will also grow up for you to take money from. If the child dies another child will be conceived by the parents. If a parent dies the other parent will find another lover. If both parents die then the grown-up spawn will eventually find a lover of their own and eventually conceive their own child. I'm not sure what happens if both parents die while the child remains a child. As all the tenants in one room are old enough they usually find jobs of their own which is supposed to be a good incentive for raising their rent.The room upgrading is incredibly bare & simple which leads to a few questionable things. For example upgrading a two-door fridge apparently grants the room a BBQ set and upgrading that gets it a built-in kitchen. You can buy a tenant a game console and/or a PC tower for their room but I find it a bit odd that you're not exactly buying it for them but for the room itself, and you don't even have to buy them a television for the consoles as far as I've seen.Depending on how fancy a room is and what the current tenant's job is you can adjust rent to their's and your pleasing. Certain monsters though are less likely to even want to pay rent even if you set it to an incredible low. You can evict them for being deadbeats, wait a bit longer to see if they come up with the money, or wait for them to run away from paying you.The game itself sounds better off as an idle-game somewhat but unfortunately alt + tabbing even when the game's a small window pauses the entire thing. It was pretty nice trying to be a landlord for monsters but with how tediously bland progress is I can't entirely like the game even for its cheap price.. its a cute game, but cute only gets you so far. the game is repetitive and doesn't get more interesting later on, you will still be doing the same thing you did in the first 5 minutes 7 hours later. clicker games are more dynamic than this, and calling this a tower defence game is an insult.. Cutesy and casual fun. There's not much difficulty to the game, but it is fun to explore the various monster "trees" as more of the same type come as you cater to them (and some are mutually exclusive). Plus, there's something satisfying seeing your favorite resident build a family... Even if you can then either evict them or toss them to their deaths against adventurers (accidentally, whoops). One playthrough with a set of "fully upgraded" monsters could probably be done in 5-6 hours.. A casual upgrade-until-you-win game where you start as the landlord (literally the devil) of four apartments, get tenants (monsters) to earn money, spend the money on furnishings to satisfy tenants (and unlock stronger tenant-types), and get tenants who are around to fend off invaders (human heroes). No real plot or story, only a few recurring enemies.There are four 'phases' of the game, starting with one floor (of four apartments) and expanding until you end up with four floors. There's a marked increase in difficulty (enemy power) each time you expand and build another floor. There are only a certain amount of missions that you can do in each phase so you'll almost always end up grinding for gold on the single repeatable generic mission they give right before an expansion (unless you did enough grinding before for stronger tenants).The more you spend on room furnishings, the more rent you can charge. However, it feels like most will eventually go into debt if you push it anywhere close to 50%. 'This room rocks' just has to do with their satisfaction gain/loss from furnishings and doesn't mean they can actually pay that amount regularly. The thing about debt is that they get depressed and it feels like the debt can easily snowball or lead to them running away. I couldn't be bothered with micromanaging/optimizing the rent so I kept rent pretty low (enough so I rarely had to bother with debt) and had to gain money through mission grinding and tenants that were better off.You want your tenants to be strong enough to fight off invaders but it has a messed up (morally) stat upgrade system. Children (once grown up) have better stats than their parents. But the problem is that only 3 characters can stay in a room. There are two main approaches if you want stronger tenants (that are also achievements if you only do one approach). The first way is to keep evicting the parents so that the younger generation can raise their own children (and repeat for many generations). The second is to force the parents to lose battles and perish to open up the space.It's hard to find an alternative while keeping the game simple. Maybe they could have had it cycle through the family and the parents retire to someplace safer and leave the apartment when the children grow up. Children grow up pretty quickly so I could see the parents age just as quickly. Of course, you do play as the devil, so...Alternatively, you could skip all that (keeping tenants for a long time very rarely lets them see a job promotion for a little higher pay) and try to get by with unlocking stronger tenants. However, I don't think their base stats are great enough that you can completely ignore the other methods. You'd probably be giving up quality for quantity and be forced to sacrifice several tenants per strong enemy anyway (and be forced a little into the second method).The general way to play is to get tenants, do missions (invite enemy heroes to fight) for gold, spend gold on furnishings to make tenants happy/indirectly stronger, repeat. If missions are too hard, grind/wait for gold and either wait for your reputation to go up to unlock stronger tenants or wait for tenants to fall in love, have children and do the generational stat-boost.Worth a look if you like upgrade-until-you-win, grinding games with simple mechanics.Other thoughts:I would've liked a 5x+ speed option. I spent a lot of time at 3x speed, doing something else while I waited for gold to accumulate (not unlike a clicker). Unfortunately, there's no option to keep it running in the background (it would be nice to just switch back when the music changes for an event, possibly with auto-pause).Because the trade-in value of furnishings is always half of what you pay, it feels better to skip tiers of upgrades when possible. However, that means idling for daily rent and the repeatable mission grind. For example, the Tier 4 (of 6) bed is 800g but that's a few days of gold. Of course, there are some types of furniture with Tiers that are obviously tailored to specific creature types but I don't think things like beds are one of them. You could buy incrementally what the residents ask for but it feels so much more efficient to just save up and buy big. And you need days to pass by anyway in order to gain reputation (to unlock new types).It would be nice if they better explained the mechanics of furniture of the game. It mixes in actual information with fluff in the item descriptions. I believe better beds restore more HP when sleeping, better kitchen things restore more HP when eating, certain ones mention training stats, hobby items make them stay home to defend the complex more often, and other things raise resident satisfaction and creature type attraction.It seems from the description text that exercise equipment boost either attack or defense, depending on the item. Does that mean you should buy both the Tier 4 for offense and Tier 6 for defense?Does buying unnecessary things add useless actions to the seemingly random pool of actions a tenant can do? For example, a bookshelf (increasing magic power) for a physical damage type seems useless on its own. But would it also waste time using it (so that it's better off not buying it at all)?Sometimes certain furniture are required for jobs (according to the 'gimme' text) so you should check once in a while.It feels like if there are too many battles (you do too many missions or get unlucky with a random encounter), residents who want to go to work keep getting forced back into their rooms because of the fight. I assume that means they don't earn gold that day and might go into debt from rent.The best abyssal creature has an additional requirement that the others don't. Like the other types, they'll only show up if their type-respect/love is high enough but abyssals require altars to raise respect/love. This means you need about 6 rooms of the worst abyssal with altars if you want the best one to be in the tenant applicant pool (and for existing ones to find a partner).3g/day is too much for some apparently. Is savings not a thing or is the pay from their jobs that bad/inconsistent (or did I rush through too many missions and they were the only apartment to get unlucky)?. Having already played the Playism version of this, I'm really happy that this came to Steam.This is the single most weird game that I've ever played, aside from the Saints Row series.In this game you play as Satan who rents his building to monsters of all kinds, and you play this as an apartment management games PLUS TOWER DEFENCE, where you knock on their doors to have them slay wandering adventurers.Not to mention that some of these unholy ones will settle down for good, starting their family of cannon fodders that you can send out to absorb damage.This game is amazing at presenting a lighthearted tower defence game, and the amount of fine details, such as description of each guy's day job that is put into the game is absolutely fantastic.Overall a very good title for such a low price.Take a break from all the FPS and RPGs,Buy Unholy Heights and have some lighthearted fun. Slaughtering adventurers.. So Unholy Heights is a strange yet addictive amalgamation of RPG, time management, tower defense strategy game. You manage a building full of monster tenants who also fight heroes that try to rob you. It reminds me of one of those Kairosoft mobile games only with fighting. While this game does have that casual flavor as you are trying to make a profit and of course keep your monsters happy they work, get sick, fall in love and make babies. But if you want to spice things up you can always play one of the many quests to fight heroes and gain cash to spend money upgrading your apartments.With each upgrade you attract a a higher breed of monster tenant all with different streengths and weaknesses. Housing placement also plays a factor as not all monsters get along and if you have two neighbors next to each other that don't get along one might end up leaving or skipping out on the rent if they can't pay.I found this game to be charming. Everything from the cute cartoonish graphics to the strange melody. For the price it's well worth the time I spent playing.. A classy little tower defense/rpg hybrid where you're a demon overlord letting minions of your domain live in apartments.... Interested yet?You get a wide variety of tenants all with their own strengths, weaknesses, and personalities (some have wet dreams and read dirty fanfiction.... relatable yet?)In all seriousness it's a rather fun little game that at least deserves a try.... it has a NISA feel to it as well so if you've played something like "What did I do to deserve this my lord?" It's the same concept.... Keep the overlord safe from heroes. Steam Summer Sale: Be twice a devil landlord for half the price! Unholy Heights is on sale in this years Steam Summer Sale! Join in now!. Up to 80% off in the Lunar New Year Sales!: Hello Playism FansHappy Lunar New Year! The Steam sales have kicked off and there are celebrations all around. We have set a whole bunch of amazing Playism games on sale, with up to 80% off! Check out the full list on our Publisher Page or on the Playism blog[blog.playism-games.com]. On top of having up to 80% off, we also have some exciting news! Touhou Luna Nights - Announcing the next update and end of Early Access. Revolver360 Re:Actor - IGF China Finalist: Amazing news for PLAYISM fans!Revolver360 Re:Actor has been selected as a finalist for IGF China 2015. Rovolver360 has the possibility of winning one of the following rewards, so I hope that you are cheering it on!Best GameBest Mobile Excellence in AudioAudience AwardExcellence in Design Excellence in TechnologyExcellence in Visual Artshttp://store.steampowered.com/app/313400/?snr=1_5_1100__1100. Unholy Heights on Sale and New Bundle Info!: Hi All!We hope you are having fantastic holidays! The Steam Winter Sales have started, and Unholy Heights has joined the sales, you can now get it for 20% off! You can find all the Playism titles that are on sale here, or listed on our blog![playism-games.com]We have also just added some exciting bundles!. Steam Weekly Sales!: Hello Playism FansWe hope that you are doing well!! We are excited to announce that we have a whole range of Playism titles on sale this week with up to 80% off!Check out the full list on our Publisher Page.Check out all the exciting games on sale now! ---Playism. Steam Weekly Sales!: Hello Playism FansWe hope that you are doing well!! We are excited to announce that we have a whole range of Playism titles on sale this week with up to 80% off!Check out the full list on our Publisher Page.Check out all the exciting games on sale now! ---Playism. Unholy Heights on Sale!: Hi All! Unholy Heights is on Sale this week for 20% off! Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation! The Devil has converted a tenement building into monsters-only housing, and has big plans for the future.Make sure you check it out now! http://store.steampowered.com/app/249330Don't forget that you can also check out the Strategy Bundle that Unholy Heights is part of, for a chance to get even better deals!Playism Strategy BundleFor more updates and sale recommendations, make sure you check out the Playism Group: Playism SelectionUnholy Heights is part of the Strategy Recommendations! . Tokyo Game Show Sales and Announcements!: Tokyo Game Show has started! Playism is not only exhibiting some awesome games, but we are also joining up with Steam to hold some Tokyo Game Show Sales for everyone worldwide to join in! Find the full list of Playism titles on Sale here!As well as a huge selection of games on Sale, Playism is also proud to present our upcoming games and projects! CINERIS SOMNIA. Playism Publisher Sale - Up to 80% off!: We are finishing off our 8th anniversary month with a huge sale on Steam!We want to thank everyone who has been a part of Playism in the past 8 years, we couldn’t have done any of this without all you amazing people!We have nearly our whole catalog on sale for up to 80% off!For extra deals, don't forget to check out our bundles! Playism Strategy BundleContains: Unholy Heights, Rime Berta, Magic Potion Explorer, A Healer Only Lives TwicePlayism JRPG BundleContains: One Way Heroics, Artifact Adventure, LiEat, Helen's Mysterious CastlePlayism 2D Action BundleContains: La-Mulana, Kero Blaster, Momodora: Reverie Under the MoonlightPLAYISM Metroidvania bundleContains: La-Mulana, Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight, La-Mulana 2, Touhou Luna NightsCheck out the full list of games on our Steam Page, or on our blog![blog.playism-games.com]---Playism
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Updated: Mar 17, 2020