The Tower

Short Description

A puzzle-focused escape adventure featuring 10 handcrafted levels, hidden clues, environmental storytelling, and challenging logic-based puzzles. Explore, observe, connect the dots, and find your own way forward—without quest markers guiding every step.

Overview

The Tower is a puzzle and escape-room inspired adventure designed for players who enjoy observation, deduction, and problem-solving.

Across 10 unique levels, you will encounter a variety of challenges that require careful exploration, attention to detail, and logical thinking. Every environment contains clues, hints, and pieces of information that must be discovered and interpreted in order to progress.

Unlike traditional quests, The Tower does not provide quest markers for clues, puzzle solutions, or required actions. The game will only display the current objective for each level. How you achieve that objective is entirely up to you.

Success depends on your ability to:

• Explore your surroundings thoroughly
• Read and interpret documents and environmental clues
• Connect information gathered from multiple sources
• Experiment with objects and systems
• Think outside the box when a solution is not immediately obvious

The Tower is designed around discovery and investigation. There are no combat encounters, no skill checks, and no shortcuts that reveal the solution. Every puzzle is intended to be solved through observation, reasoning, and persistence.

If you enjoy escape rooms, mystery-solving, and uncovering secrets through exploration rather than following waypoints, The Tower offers a challenge built specifically for you.

Features

• 10 handcrafted puzzle levels
• Unique challenges and mechanics throughout the adventure
• Environmental storytelling and hidden clues
• No quest markers for puzzle solutions or clue locations
• Objective-based progression that rewards exploration and deduction
• Increasing difficulty as you ascend the Tower
• Designed for players who enjoy solving problems on their own

The Tower is not about following instructions. It's about finding them.

Special thanks

I would particularly like to thank everyone who helped me whilst I was developing this mod, especially DownFallNemesis for her unfailing support, and Arthur, my loyal beta-tester.

Known issue

At the end of The Tower, the player has the possibility to claim a ship in addition to the usual loot. However, there is a known issue where the ship appears transparent – it is not visible but is still there, you can walk around it and interract with its hit box. If this error occurs, restarting the console or PC should normally resolve the problem. In some cases, the ship reappears but its landing bay is closed; if this happens to you, I suggest waiting 24 hours on Venus to reset the world of The Tower. In any case, this ship is intended as a sort of bonus to the loot available in the loot zone, you are not missing anything.