Atmos Games first announced Twisted Tower back in 2023, describing it as a cross between BioShock and Willy Wonka. In it, the player must fight through a nightmarish carnival to rescue their love interest from an assortment of killer mascots and a mysterious figure named Mr. Twister. A brief playable demo is currently available on Steam, allowing players to check out the first few sections of Twisted Tower’s Tim Burton-inspired world.
Tucked away in this demo are a few secret doors that the game says are currently inaccessible, but will be unlocked in later Twisted Tower playthroughs. Many video games have some sort of New Game Plus feature, allowing the player to replay the game after completing it with all the weapons and upgrades they acquired the first time. Some of these New Game Plus runs also change the game differently, unlocking branching paths and even alternate endings. Game Rant recently spoke with Thomas Brush, the art director and project lead on Twisted Tower, about these sealed-off sections and Twisted Tower‘s “Adventure Plus” feature.
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Twisted Tower’s “Adventure Plus” mode effectively serves as New Game Plus. Brush says that Twisted Tower contains branching “forks in the road,” different paths that are made accessible to the player at random during their first playthrough. After they complete the game, the player will be able to select Adventure Plus, which will have all the alternate routes unlocked.
Twisted Tower’s Adventure Plus Mode Lets Players Unlock Alternate Paths
What’s interesting about this Adventure Plus mode is how it ensures that the second playthrough offers different paths. Players who start a second game can go through it and see everything they didn’t see in the first run, boosting the indie game’s replay value, or they can go for another randomized run. The choice is up to the player, ultimately, but it’s an interesting feature nonetheless. As Brush said,
“Right now, there are a dozen or so unique “forks in the road” throughout the game. Upon playing a new fresh game, they are randomly chosen. However, after beating the game, all the alternative paths are set up in that save file for “Adventure Plus” mode. So, players can get a random experience, or experience the alternative paths they played in their first run.”
As of this writing, Twisted Tower has no exact release date, and Thomas Brush is only ready to confirm that the game will be available on PC at launch. However, should Twisted Tower prove to be successful enough on Steam, he hopes to branch the game out onto consoles as well. In the meantime, curious gamers can download the free Twisted Towers demo on Steam for a small sample of the horrors that await within the titular amusement park gone wrong.
