[1][2] Buildings in Tilted Towers, however, per the mechanics of Fortnite: Battle Royale, are also destructible by anyone, with it being possible for the entire location to be flattened into the equivalent of a large parking lot.

[1][5] Landing at Tilted Towers was considered to be risky due to its popularity, but rewarding as the location provided players with enough loot to reach the end of the game.

[11] During development, Tilted Towers was designed by Epic Games to be on the "larger end of the scale" of locations on the Fortnite island, intentionally placed near the center of the map to increase player engagement.

[15][16] However, in May 2018, an update to the map revealed a different location, Dusty Depot, had been destroyed by the meteor instead, though one building in Tilted was hit by a smaller stray comet.

[26][27] In June 2024, Tilted Towers returned as part of the games "Reload" mode, where it and other locations such as Retail Row are present on a map smaller than the one featured in Battle Royale.

Upon its introduction, Cecilia D'Anastasio wrote in a Kotaku article that Tilted Towers was "evil", and designed to make the average player hate themselves, attributing her thoughts to her own skill and experience with the game itself.

[1] Brett Makedonski of Destructoid shared similar thoughts as Donlan, writing that the popularity of the location caused gameplay to be disrupted by making the rest of the map "feel underpopulated".

[6] Contrarily, Goslin of Polygon described Tilted Towers as a "unique kind of experience" and one of the most fun locations in the game.

[22] During Season X, Goslin praised the wild-western version of the location, Tilted Town, describing fighting there to be a "great change of pace" due to the deactivation of the game's building mechanics.

[1][6] Upon the location's destruction later that year by the volcanic eruption, James Davenport of PC Gamer criticized Epic's decision to remove the location, writing that the decision along with the return of the game's "drum gun" drastically upset the game's balance.

[5] A song on Ninjawerks, an album created by Fortnite streamer Ninja in collaboration with Alesso, was named after Tilted Towers.