$19.99Tangle Tower A murder case full of jokes
A murder at the top of a strange tower, and the only suspect is a painting holding a knife. As two detectives, you search the mansion and gardens, question its odd residents, and piece together clues in this hand-drawn detective game with full voice acting and a dry sense of humour.
Is Tangle Tower worth it?
Tangle Tower is worth it if…
- you like detective games about questioning suspects and connecting clues
- you want a cozy, story-driven mystery with funny dialogue
- you like hand-drawn art, voice acting, and orchestral music
- you prefer logical puzzles with hints over getting stuck
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A murder where the suspect is a painting
Freya Fellow is dead, found with a shadowy figure looming over her. The catch: that figure is a painting. You play as detectives Grimoire and Sally, working your way from the eerie gardens up to the cold crime scene at the very top of Tangle Tower.
You click through painted rooms, turn up curious clues, and interrogate a cast of peculiar residents. Each has three things to talk about, plus remarks on every clue you show them. Find the right evidence and you unlock a fourth talk, a Suspicion chat that scratches at what they are hiding. You also assemble deductions yourself from clue images and sentence fragments, which gives armchair detectives a proper moment of reasoning.
Gentle puzzles in a painted tower
There is no inventory to juggle. Instead you get self-contained logic puzzles tied to the case, and they stay fair and forgiving, with gradual hints if you get stuck. Brute-forcing a solution is sometimes possible, so the pace stays relaxed.
What carries it is presentation. Every location looks like a living painting, the cast is fully voiced and animated with small expressive gestures, and an original orchestral score follows you from room to room. Finish things and you unlock a concept art gallery with notes on characters, clues, and locations. The humour is dry and the dialogue is plentiful, so come ready to read and listen.
Good to know?
How do you actually solve the case?
You explore Tangle Tower room by room, collect clues, show them to suspects, and pick apart their stories in dialogue. When you have enough, you build short deduction sentences from clues and phrases, then solve a logic puzzle to lock in the answer. Reasoning is the core, not reflexes.
Who are you playing as?
Detective Grimoire and his assistant Sally, an easygoing duo with plenty of banter. You question the tower's residents together, and Sally in particular gets a lot of love for her performance.
How big is the tower to explore?
It runs from the bizarre gardens outside to the crime scene at the very top, with a set of painted interiors in between. A handy map keeps moving between them quick, so you spend time talking and thinking rather than wandering.
Do you need to play Detective Grimoire first?
No. This is a stand-alone case with its own victim, suspects, and tower. An earlier game follows the same detectives, but you can start here without missing setup.
