Tangle Tower

Tangle Tower

Tangle Tower is a detective adventure game featuring painted visuals and puzzle solving. You play as grizzled detective Grimoire, exploring the creepy Tangle Tower mansion and interrogating its bizarre inhabitants to solve the murder of Freya Fellow.
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Tangle Tower: Detective Adventure Games

Explore a creepy mansion, solve puzzles, and unravel a mystery in Tangle Tower, a detective adventure game featuring painted visuals

What is Tangle Tower?

Tangle Tower is a detective adventure and puzzle game developed by Sussy Blak for iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch and PC. It features beautiful hand-painted visuals and a mystery story set in the mysterious Tangle Tower mansion.

In Tangle Tower, you play as Grimoire - a grizzled private detective who is accompanied by his sassy assistant Junior. You have been summoned to the strange Tangle Tower manor by your client, Freya Fellow. But when you arrive, you discover that Freya has been murdered!

It is now up to you to explore the mansion, interrogate the bizarre suspects like greedy Aunt Lily and bookish Uncle Norris, and piece together challenging logic puzzles to uncover clues and deduce whodunnit. The key gameplay revolves around unraveling knotty conundrums and riddles to progress Grimoire's investigation.

With its gorgeous painted artwork, eccentric cast of mansion inhabitants and tricky puzzles to solve, Tangle Tower provides a unique mystery adventure filled with sinister secrets waiting to be uncovered.

Tangle Tower Features

Features

  1. Point-and-click gameplay
  2. Puzzle solving
  3. Interrogating characters
  4. Exploring the mansion
  5. Uncovering clues
  6. Solving a murder mystery

Pricing

  • One-time Purchase

Pros

Beautiful hand-painted visuals

Intriguing murder mystery storyline

Fun, quirky characters

Challenging but fair puzzles

Smooth gameplay

Good voice acting

Cons

Short playtime (around 4 hours)

Limited replay value

Easy to get stuck if you miss a clue

Story is a bit predictable

Puzzles can feel repetitive


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