Tiny Tower iPhone App Review

Look at it as a city-building game like CityVille in just a single building! Tiny Tower is a charming and enjoyable game app that lets you build a tiny skyscraper and manage the businesses and citizens that inhabit it.

The game starts with you in control of the tower, with each floor being either a residential block or a business. The building’s citizen–or “Bitizens” as they are called–can mill about on each business floor and only five of them can live in a residential floor. They also leave messages every now and them on the in-game “Bitbook” social network, wherein they provide updates with irresistible cheerful yapping. The Bitizen are also a hungry lot, as you have to feed them with sushi at certain times.

While each Bitizen can staff any shop in the tower, who you put in what job provide varying degrees of success. The goal is to assign each Bitizen to his or her “dream job,” which would yield three Tower Bux. This in-app currency can be used to speed up the in-game processes such as restocking a shop or constructing a new floor, which takes longer the higher you go. While you earn very little Bux in the game, you can buy loads of Tower Bux through in-app purchases, which cost a lot.

Tiny Tower by NimbleBit is available for the iPhone and iPad for free. Meanwhile, its Tower Bux package are available for as low as $0.99 for 10 Bux and as much as $29.99 for 1,000 Bux.