Tower Lab

Tower Lab entered Steam Early Access on September 7, 2026 — just three days before this assessment. The developer (a two-person team, Devon and Xueer) has been openly building toward this launch since at least October 2025, running community playtests and a public demo throughout early-to-mid 2026. The Early Access launch post describes the current build as a starting point, and the developer published a roadmap alongside the release date announcement on August 24, 2026, explicitly outlining content planned beyond what shipped at launch — including additional regions, towers, machines, and other features. This is an active, communicative team: they shipped a patch (0.1.0.1) just two days after launch addressing gameplay, balance, and bug fixes, and they had maintained a steady stream of updates throughout the pre-launch demo period. The game is squarely in an unfinished state by the developer's own design and communication — Early Access with a published roadmap of things still to come.