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Death Tower is an overclocked roguelite tactical RPG. Survive each floor of the megastructure. Stealth, hacking, and devastating weapons. Do whatever it takes to fight your way to the top. Wake up, Ikarus!

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Headbang Club 10th anniversary!

8 Jan

We started in 2016 after leaving Motion Twin to develop Double Kick Heroes. Since then, we've worked on many games, including Metal Slug Tactics and Shotgun King, and collaborated with various studios on projects such as Absolum, Windjammer 2, Warhammer : Mechanicus, etc. And of course, DeathTower!

Now, let's see what's new!

We're still improving the UI, moving from mockup to game engine! Despite their good looks, the characters were so big that they often hid vital information. We therefore started reworking this part and refined the "control block" as well.

Here's a first look at the Haven, a resting place where banned µbots try to live in autarky away from the Erineos. A safeplace for those who can reach it in the solar farm. The Haven will evolve as you save µbots throughout your journey!

First look at the residential area biome!

The residential district is an ancient, long-forgotten quarter that hides clues about µbot creation and even about the nature of the world itself. It’s laid out like an old city, with broad avenues framed by dusty crumbling buildings and narrower alleys branching off the main routes. The design intent for these maps is to highlight those wide, dominant paths while fragmenting them with tight side-paths and blind corners that let players close with foes and strike from behind. The contrast between open avenues and tight path creates dynamic opportunities for ambush, pursuit, and tactical positioning!

You will also encounter more evil threats, such as marauders armed with shotguns and Spartan Uboots, etc...Last but not least, the fifth playable character, Nekat, is taking shape!

We'll see you soon with more news about DeathTower in the next newsletter! The demo was updated in December — feel free to try it out! Please note that not all of the changes shown here have been included yet in order to improve stability.

If you have any questions or just want to join, don't hesitate to come on the discord!
See you!

DeathTower

Bugs & Known issues

Hello, here is the discussion in cas you find issues or bugs. For now : - people with zoomed desktops may experience games that are too large : working on it. Reporting bugs and issues: - You can use this discussion - You can report it directly on our discord on the appropriate channels, here ...

Blackmagic

22 Nov, 2025 @ 1:32am

General Discussions

🔁 Erebus Update is live a Kickstarter! 🔁

17 Mar, 2025

Thanks so much for the progress! Everyday is a new one. We are very happy to get close to 40%!

But today is a special one, we have updated the demo with... a lot of new content and many Quality Of Life features.

Many of them will be hard to feel but the difference is massive to us.

In the main changeset we love :

Controls should be much better with gamepad, we worked a lot for the game to feel less rigid
Erebus allows you to learn about characters and start with some stuff before hand and , it is still not balanced but it was our last big system to dev before our "vertical slice" version.

Overall weapon balance and fixes, they will have more diversity and gamefeel will be better!

Thanks everyone for supporting us until there 🖤
In case you need our link to the Kickstarter! KICKSTARTER!

Here is our new artwork in case you don't already follow our Kickstarter!

Heres is the patchnotes :

proto rc10 94
- fix translation load order
- fix move range showing while in cinematics
- adjused tooltip
- fix end turn cue creating bugs

proto rc10 92
- unfart the "throw" action that now does not lock the "end turn button"

proto rc10 91
- add erebus
- fix new title screen

proto rc10 90
- volume controls in options are now saved on disk for next session
- pad deadzon will now adjust to ease or harden diagonals on certain screens ( erebus )

proto rc10 89
- improve erebus ( not yet available sorry )
- improve controls

proto rc10 88
- fixed large opponent targeting
- add lot of ambushes and cinematics
- improve cursor behavior
- improve
- lot of fixes
- start work on hijy
- start work on herk
- start work on nova
- fix some skills
- fix some weapons
- fix hackcore loot chances
- fix translations
- improve procgen text systems
- fix small criters attack
- improve cursor when resetting
- add missing audio cues
- add new music versions
- erebus tentatives
- improve out elevator highlighting
- improve level look and feel
- improve messages
- fix credits
- improve credits styling
- fix lot of potential entity stucking bugs
- better seeding support
- add engine components logic vor vfx and layout
- lot of map improvements
- improve solar farm chunks
- fix bugs on bar flashing their difference and their tweens

proto rc9 87
- fixed the resolution bug when windows desktop was zoomed which is getting common these days.
- started preliminary work on hijy.
- prevent crash on cutscenes.
- change colors of the credits because it's essential and fixed typos in it.
- rebalanced weapons spread and distribution : it will be reworked in the future.
- can no longer flee using starter elevator.
- topology is not updated properly after push actions.
- weapon range now update when changing action hover.
- erebus still in progress.
- floor complete screen slightly less ugly but will be rebuilt from scratch in the future
- gameplay hints now can be blocked with a prompt.
- prevent looting crashes.
- moved music around and shipped new explo/battle music!
- option menu has a better navigation.
- updated some levels and polishes visuals.
- loops not yet accessible.
- stay tuned and have fun.

ps : git pull ;)

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Deathtower's Kickstarter date reveal

27 Feb, 2025

Hello there!
We are progressing slowly but confidently, now is time to reveal the kickstarter before the next update.
We hope yto meet y'all there and have a good campaign with us.
We really hope you'll enjoy our HD clip as much as we did!

You can join the Kickstarter page right here : KICKSTARTER

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Clunky controls

Hi there, love tactical RPGs and the game looked interesting so I downloaded the demo and started playing, however the controls are quite a mess. I had the aspect ratio bug first of all, then some of the menu controls were working, others weren't : I had to use a mixture of keyboard and gamepad to navigate the menu because I couldn't click on the submenus with the gamepad, but I couldn't backtrack with the keyboard and mouse... In game, the selector to choose the spot to walk to felt super janky and I was ...

Parpaing

5 Jun, 2025 @ 3:25pm

General Discussions

Roadmap

Please find the centralized roadmap here don't hesitate to comment here and make suggestions. You can also discuss changes or priorities with us on discord.

Blackmagic

17 Mar, 2025 @ 10:08am

General Discussions

[Suggestion] Varied Environments

Hey I like the art and this looks promising. Right away, I'd suggest planning to incorporate different environmental flavors for your levels. I see you have 4 different biomes. Looking at the trailer, we see that it basically all looks the same, although with a different color palette in the 2nd half. I'd say even within the biome, make sure you add little touches to vary the surroundings so you don't have bored players complaining it's all "samey", especially if they will be repeating the beginning areas...

King Joshington

17 Mar, 2025 @ 10:07am

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Frequently Asked Questions / F.A.Q.

Hey, Please find the FAQ here Suggestions are allowed so don't hesitate if you feel something is missing.

Blackmagic

5 Oct, 2024 @ 1:53am

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