If there is one PC gaming problem that can instantly kill my mood, it is a corrupted save. I can tolerate a crash, a stutter, even a game refusing to launch for twenty minutes while I chase down some obscure driver issue. Losing hours of progression, though? That is a different kind of frustration. That…
If you are anything like me, the first thing you want to know before jumping into a new horror game on Steam Deck is pretty simple: does it actually feel good with a controller? There is nothing worse than launching a promising first-person game, only to discover that the controls feel awkward, the menus are…
There are games that make you nervous because they are genuinely terrifying, and then there are games that make you grin while wondering what the hell you just witnessed. Twisted Tower feels like it belongs firmly in the second category. With its creepy amusement-park setting, grotesque mascots, bizarre weapons, dark humor, and fast movement, the…
There is something wonderfully stupid about starting a horror FPS with a Whack-a-Mole Mallet. You wake up inside a nightmare theme park filled with murderous fairy-tale mascots, grotesque attractions, broken machinery, and enough nightmare fuel to make a normal amusement park look downright wholesome. Then the game hands you a giant toy hammer and basically…
I have played a lot of horror games over the years, and one thing I have learned is that the games I remember are rarely the ones with the biggest monsters. They are the ones that make an ordinary place feel wrong. Twisted Tower gets that idea almost immediately. At first glance, Thomas Brush’s horror…
If there is one thing that can ruin a great horror game faster than a bad jump scare, it is inconsistent performance. Twisted Tower has exactly the kind of visual style I love: creepy, colorful, strange, and packed with that dark fairytale atmosphere that makes every room feel like something terrible is waiting around the…
Twisted Tower is the kind of game that makes you confident for about five minutes before casually throwing you into a room designed specifically to punish that confidence. Developed by Atmos Games and published by 3D Realms, this first-person action-adventure shooter takes the bright, cheerful imagery of a 1950s amusement park and twists it into…
There are few things more annoying in a horror game than finally getting pulled into the atmosphere, creeping through a dark hallway, hearing something move behind you… and then the entire audio system decides to disappear. If you’re playing Twisted Tower on PC and dealing with sound randomly cutting out, dialogue vanishing, crackling effects, missing…
If there is one thing I love about following a new game from its early demo to launch, it is seeing whether the developers actually listen. Plenty of studios collect feedback, post a few optimistic development updates, and then quietly ship the game they were making anyway. Twisted Tower feels like a much more interesting…
I went into Twisted Tower expecting creepy corridors, weird mascots, and plenty of shooting. What I found was a much nastier mix of first-person combat, platforming, environmental puzzles, and arenas designed specifically to punish anyone who stops paying attention for even a few seconds. Developed by Atmos Games and published by 3D Realms, Twisted Tower…
