Tangle Tower

 Switch
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 27
  3. Negative: 4 out of 27

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  1. Rotbeard
    May 12, 2023
    3
    A mystery with a nonsensical resolution is not a good mystery. I loved a lot about the game, but the complete let down of an ending retroactively killed it entirely. What a disappointment.
  2. bustee
    Jul 2, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Tangle Tower is a beautifully looking murder mystery game, but apart from its gorgeous looks, it falls flat on any other issue that is important to the genre.it is all facade and no content.

    1. The puzzles:
    That amount of puzzles is decent, with most of them not really related to the story whatsoever. The puzzle is there, because there needed to be a puzzle. On top of that, they are without exception way too easy. Could be interesting to grade school kids, but that is it.

    2. The characters:
    The tower is filled with several quirky characters, none of which is well developed. They are all one-dimensional with badly written dialogues that mostly don't make much sense. 3. The dialogues: do not change with the investigation proceeding. You will still talk about missing items that you have already found long ago, because there is no system that keeps the dialogue en par with the state of the game. This is immensely immersion breaking. On top of that, most of the dialogues make hardly any sense to begin with. People deny trivial stuff and you are pressed to "prove" it to them, so the story can continue - albeit the information gained is negligible. Example: (Spoiler) the archetypical goth girl made a music tape for the victim. She denies this, although this would not cast anything negative at her. You then need to prove to her that in fact made the tape and the result from that is basically: "yeah, okay, I made the tape"
    This makes no sense and does neither forward story nor investigation. It is a pure filler!

    4. The story:
    The whole story makes absolutely no sense. In addition, it does not slowly unravel during your investigation. Instead, (spoiler) in the end, the murderer just appears in front of you and tells you his whole backstory, how everything happened and why. Apart from it making no sense whatsoever, you also had no chance to discover it by yourself, because you were never given any information on most of the stuff.

    The end feels like they decided to have enough content, so to wrap things up, they just tell you the whole story directly, because they did not manage to portray anything in the game itself. It is extremely lackluster.

    What remains is a lackluster game, with lackluster characters, lackluster story and lackluster riddles. The only redeeming point is the visual presentation. But this is not what makes a good game -- it merely is a selling point to people who roam the eshop!

    I bought this game with a 75% discount and still feel that is was too expensive. Might be okay for 1-2$ but not more. There are a lot better mystery or point&click adventures on the switch, which are in the same price bracket as this game or even lower. E.g. Agent Z sells for 1-2$ all the time, has a very similar feel, but with a real story and great riddles.    … Expand

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22
#22 Best Switch Game of 2019

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Gaming Age
    Sep 15, 2020
    91
    Tangle Tower is built around an excellent whodunit mystery that moves along at just the right pace. There’s a great balance of plot, puzzle, and humour, and it does a good job of keeping you invested all the way to the very end. In this respect, you could say that the game carries on in the traditions of the very best adventure games from a few decades ago — but it manages to do so in a way that feels undeniably fresh.
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  2. Cubed3
    Dec 16, 2019
    90
    Charming, original, and terrifically paced, Tangle Tower is a strong contender for the best point-and-click adventure of 2019. Puzzles require real wit without bogging readers down with irrelevant information. Each screen is filled to the brim with detail, blending colour and lighting into a living, breathing tower. Only a few hours long with a gripping mystery at the centre of its plot, Tangle Tower is a must play for fans of the genre.
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  3. Switch Player
    Nov 22, 2019
    80
    Tangle Tower is a pleasure to play. An interesting story, well-crafted gameplay, and a brilliantly diverse cast of characters marred only by small faults here and there still make it an easy recommandation for adventure game fans.
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