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Digitemenos · Published by Digitemenos · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Solve 1000+ handcrafted puzzles while exploring a mysterious tower, and ponder a philosophical narrative set in the ruins of a broken fantasy world. Outwit monsters, manipulate time and space, and transcend your all-too-human limits – or go mad trying…
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About this game
Looming above the apocalyptic wasteland is Twofold Tower – a mysterious, sprawling monolith of a thousand rooms. Enter at your own risk, for inside monsters lurk in the shadows; laws of nature are treated as mere suggestions; and forbidden knowledge is everywhere to be found…
Features:
Mad Science: Experiment with 100+ distinct game mechanics, including parallel dimensions, time manipulation, modular game rules, monster manoeuvring, and much more…
Tons of Content: 1000+ handcrafted puzzles across 50+ hours of playtime.
Quality Over Quantity: There is no "filler" in Twofold Tower, with every puzzle exploring a unique idea.
Sprawling Exploration: Navigate nonlinear, themed levels, which are connected by hub levels – hiding plenty of secrets, and making it possible to return to a puzzle later if you get stuck.
Deliberate Problem-Solving: Fully grid- and turn-based gameplay, with a particular focus on outside-the-box thinking, inspired by titles such as Baba Is You, DROD, and Braid.
Quality of Life: Care has been put into making Twofold Tower comfortable to play, with snappy animations, undo, controller support, and QoL features such as marking tiles on the grid.
A Great Soundtrack (Used Sparingly): Twofold Tower has a full, original soundtrack, consisting of haunting melodic electronic music – which is unlocked gradually, and only plays when you want it to.
Level Editor and Sharing: The game comes with a fully featured, built-in level editor, and support for downloading user-made levels.
Lovingly Handcrafted: Twofold Tower is entirely handcrafted, and is the result of over seven years of development by a single person.
Narrative:
The narrative is an integral part of Twofold Tower, and is made up of three distinct parts:
Dialogue, in which a handful of colourful characters try to come to terms with the world having ended.
Satirical snippets, which flesh out the broken fantasy world in which the game takes place, written in a style reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Poetry, largely centred around the perils and limits of reason, and employing a mixture of sincerity and humour.
While never obscure or difficult just for the sake of it, the narrative does respect your intelligence, and brings together ideas from many different areas, including science, philosophy, spirituality, and religion.
Goodies:
Every copy of Twofold Tower includes its soundtrack in a lossless format, and three exclusive ebooks:
Thinking About Thinky Games (80+ pages/~30k words): A full-length meditation on puzzle game design, covering both high-level concepts and practicalities.
There is No Truth (80+ pages/~15k words): Contains most of the prose written for Twofold Tower, alongside developer commentary and other bonus material.
Self-Contained (60+ pages/~3k words): Contains most of the poetry written for Twofold Tower in the form of a standalone collection.
The books were written in parallel to the development of Twofold Tower, and are carefully formatted, and available in both PDF and EPUB formats.
For ethical, educational, and preservationist reasons, the source code and assets of Twofold Tower will eventually become source-available, upon which a copy of the source code will also be included with the game. However, there will still be usage restrictions ensuring that Twofold Tower remains commercially viable.
Thanks for reading to the end!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Status Update – Aug/Sept
A few months have gone by, and so I thought it was about time for an update on how development is going. And I’m happy to say that development is moving along just fine: Since beta-testing begun around the time of the game's announcement, it has received hundreds of fixes and improvements based on player feedback. And while there's still lots of things on my to-do list, it's getting there…Twofold Tower became content-complete about a year ago. And since then, my aim has been to let it remain that way, and instead focus on polishing what is already there. And with one major exception – a new late-game level called Rainbow, which takes the parallel dimension mechanic to its logical conclusion – I've largely managed to do so. Though I find myself increasingly looking forward to the release of the game, if for no other reason than being able to let my creativity flow free again.A screenshot from Rainbow.I'm not quite ready to publicly share a release window for Twofold Tower yet, however I am at the stage now where I do have one in mind, so there should be more information about this coming soon enough…Lastly, while it’s always a bit scary to share your work on the internet for everyone to see, doing so has been a very positive experience for me, and essentially all interactions I’ve had relating to the game so far have been positive and pleasant. And so I just want to express my gratitude for that.Read full article on Community Announcements (digitemenos)AnnouncementsOfficial
Twofold Tower: Prologue (1.1.0)
A new update for Twofold Tower: Prologue just went live, with a number of quality of life improvements and bug fixes – thank you all for the feedback and suggestions!Most importantly, it addresses the number one complaint received so far, namely having to hold down the movement input to transition between areas. Which has been replaced with double tapping to move between areas – with the old behaviour still being available from the options.Here’s the full list of changes:Adds double tapping as the default way to move between areas.The "area traversal" input now cancels on moves that would kill you.Adds a line of dialogue about how to progress dialogues.Fixes a bug causing certain UI elements to flicker.Fixes a display issue related to scroll scrolling.Further improvements to mouse navigation in menus.Tweaks the text highlight colour.Read full article on Community Announcements (digitemenos)AnnouncementsOfficial
Twofold Tower: Prologue (1.0.5)
A small update to Twofold Tower: Prologue just went live, which implements a few quality of life suggestions from the community. In particular:Area exit delay duration can now be adjusted in the options.An "area lock" input has been added.The "confirm" input (enter) can now be used to progress dialogues and close scrolls.Read full article on Community Announcements (digitemenos)AnnouncementsOfficial
Twofold Tower: Prologue just launched!
The demo for Twofold Tower just launched! Twofold Tower: Prologue takes place before the events of the main game, and offers unique puzzles, story beats, and music.Mad Science and Monster Manoeuvring: Shift between dimensions, and sidestep undead skeletons – then juggle both at once!Not Just a Tutorial: The later puzzles in the prologue are not kidding around, providing a taste of what the full game has to offer.Deliberate Problem-Solving: Fully grid- and turn-based gameplay, with a particular focus on outside-the-box thinking.Unique Worldbuilding: Twofold Tower is set in the ruins of a broken fantasy world, where rationalism clashes with mysticism, and the truth is ever-elusive…The launch is in preparation for the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, where the Twofold Tower will be participating. I hope you enjoy it!Read full article on Community Announcements (digitemenos)AnnouncementsOfficial
My Strange Game Development Journey
The internet is full of stories of people quitting their day job to make games full-time; I am not one of them, having left society behind long before becoming a game developer. To make my life story short: Having always been a misfit, I was eventually offered a spare room in the woods by friends and family, in which I've been living a frugal and secluded life ever since. Not surprisingly then, I have no work experience related to game development. And in terms of higher education, I am not technically a high-school dropout on account of never having started it in the first place.However, I have been able to devote a lot of time to self-study, resulting in my becoming a decently well-rounded jack of all trades – with the first few years as a hermit having been spent honing or teaching myself many of the skills needed to make video games, such as programming, pixel art, music-making, and creative writing. And after my first few attempts at game development, predictably, began to suffer from unmaintainable spaghetti code, I spent even more time researching programming languages and software architecture, after which I felt ready to start working on my first “serious” project.Thus began the development of my upcoming game, Twofold Tower – with the earliest design documents and pixel art relating to it dating back to fall of 2018, meaning that I have been working on it for over seven years now. And it has turned into an absurdly ambitious project, featuring 1000+ handcrafted puzzles, more than 100 mutually compatible game elements, and a sprawling narrative, totalling in at an estimated 50+ hours of playtime.The scope of the game started out a lot more modest, however: I am an artist first and foremost, and so my primary source of motivation is the creative vision I have for a project, which is a double-edged sword: On the one hand, it lends me a clear sense of direction and purpose; but since my motivation is entirely contingent on the vision, it is ultimately in charg...Read full article on Community Announcements (digitemenos)
