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Djinni & Thaco: Trial By Spire Demo

I've played ~1.5 hours so far, and find the game to be really enjoyable.

The production quality is excellent. Visual elements are detailed and colorful, and the audio experience is also rich. The commentary is entertaining, the voice acting is smooth, and the music is really good. (ie. well produced and not-at-all cheese)

The controls are clean and work well, even in WMR. Can play standing or seated, which is nice.

I thought the tutorial was long, but there is a skip button there to skip out to get into the game if that's what you want. :)

I have some issues remembering the hand motions to cast specific spells, but I've mostly getting it down. I think that it's muscle memory, not much different to memorizing button presses on a game pad to execute combos.

It takes some strategy to get through levels as you will select between tower types, and also between which spells you focus on casting to achieve your goals. The combination of towers and spells may work well early on, but as you build you need to end up with something that will work well on the final wave. Yeah, TD-101 but this TD game has that extra element that pulls you into the action.

I'll say that I burned out on TD games some years ago, but this one is keeping my attention. (very glad I checked it out)

Update: I've played ~2 hours now, and I can confirm that the hand gestures (for me) were a matter of checking the reference book for the proper hand motion to cast and now I'm reliably casting. The reference is great for understanding the tower mods, and the spell stats as well as practicing in a sandbox level.