LEGO Tower Beginner’s Guide: Cheats, Tips and Strategies

LEGO Tower is basically a remake of NimbleBit’s classic Tiny Tower. It challenges you to build the highest tower imaginable and fill it with LEGO Minifigures. You’ll build a tower floor by floor, placing residential, creative, retail, food, service, and recreational floors, hiring LEGO Minifigures to work on them, and customising every individual aspect of everything.

You can change the colour of every single brick, the appearance of every single Minifigure, and the employees that work in each individual floor. If you don’t like a Minifigure, you can evict them or give them a job they hate. You don’t have to be nice in LEGO Tower, but it sure does pay as happier residents will be a lot more productive.

There’s also a bunch of miniquests to complete, which generally serve as Where’s Wally-type minigames. You’ll have to seek out a variety of items within your ever-growing tower to complete them and earn some premium currency.

When you achieve certain milestones, you can reset your entire tower to earn a coveted gold brick and do it all over again – albeit with a higher potential for profit. In this guide, we’re going to help you get there faster by providing a bunch of tips and tricks to help you get acquainted with the game.

LEGO Tower Tips and Tricks:

• How LEGO Tower works: On a base level, your goal in LEGO Tower is to grow your tower as quickly as possible. That involves purchasing new floors, which grow more expensive depending on the number of floors you own. To earn money, you simply have to encourage LEGO Minifigures to visit the various different floors in your tower. Whenever you hear a ping, a Minifigure should be waiting in the elevator to visit a certain floor. Send the elevator to that floor and you’ll earn money. You’ll have to make sure that particular floor has enough stock of saleable items though, as without them you won’t earn money. You’ll also have to make sure you have enough residential floors to meet the demand for employees within your tower. It’s all about balance.
• Give your LEGO Minifigures their dream jobs: Each LEGO Minifigure has a dream job and they’ll be much happier if you give this to them. At the beginning, this won’t be entirely possible as you won’t have enough floors unlocked. Just hire Minifigures to do any job at the beginning, and keep checking back whenever you build a new floor to see if you have a Minifigure that dreams of working there. You’ll get there eventually.
• Prioritise the elevator: There’s no more important job than keeping that elevator operational at all times, so keep an ear out for the ping sound that reminds you a Minifigure wants to ride in it. Each time a Minifigure rides in the elevator, you make money and that’s the sole purpose of playing. You can’t grow your tower without money.
• Complete Missions for Bux and spend them on Mission Vehicles: As you play LEGO Tower, you’ll periodically receive Missions that you can complete for Bux. Initially, these Missions will all be delivered to you via a pizza delivery bike, and will generally involve a Where’s Wally-style minigame that challenges you to find an item or Minifigure somewhere in your tower. Complete these as often as possible, and spend the Bux you unlock on new Mission Vehicles. These will provide much more Bux over the long term, allowing you to earn more.
• Ensure you have enough residential floors: Without residential floors, there will be no LEGO Minifigures to work in your tower. Without workers, you can’t make money from consumers. Without money, you can’t grow your LEGO Tower. When you put it like that, you realise how essential those residential areas are. Generally, you need two residential floors for every three consumer floors. That’s because most floors need three employees to be at peak performance.
• Keep each floor well-stocked: You need to ensure that each floor has ample stock to sell items, or you won’t make as much money. Simply keep an eye out for the green, yellow, and red lights on each non-residential floor. Green means you’re well-stocked, red means your out of stock, and yellow means you’ve ordered new stock. New stock takes time though, so be patient or spend some Bux to get the items instantly.

Glen Fox

Head of Editorial

Glen has over a decade's worth of experience in gaming journalism, writing for Pocket Gamer, Pocket Tactics, Nintendo Life, and Gfinity. When he's not badgering everyone about the dangers of passive text, you can probably find him playing Wild Rift.