Is Oaken Tower still popular in 2026?

Oaken Tower is a synergy puzzle where your tower of items fights other players' towers automatically. You build the combo, then watch it play out. That rhythm is great for stream because the building phase is full of micro-decisions chat can weigh in on, and the fight itself is a clean payoff moment with zero input lag on your end.

Because the item pool is huge and synergies stack exponentially, your best move is to narrate your build logic out loud every round. Explain why you're combining what you're combining. Chat learns fast, starts suggesting lines you haven't tried, and suddenly they're invested in whether your build actually works. When you hit ranked, poll chat on contested item picks between rounds, since the asynchronous format gives you real time to read the suggestions without the pressure of real-time combat. The casual mode is also worth using early in a session to test weird combos without burning your rank, which keeps the stream from getting stuck in a loss spiral.