TOWERBOUND — PRESS KIT
There is no luck in this tower. The tower doesn't kill you; your plan does.
Factsheet
| Developer | Jelte De Proft (solo developer) |
| Game | Towerbound |
| Genre | Deterministic puzzle-RPG / dungeon crawler |
| Release date | Free demo: September 21, 2026 · Full game: Q1 2027 · Steam Next Fest: October 19–26, 2026 |
| Platforms | Steam for Windows · full controller support |
| Full game price | To be announced |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Steam pages | Full game / wishlist · Play the free demo |
| Press contact | jeltedeproft@hotmail.com |
| Technology | Java and LibGDX |
Description
There is no luck in this tower. No dice rolls, no misses, no critical hits. Every enemy's strength, every reward, every outcome in Towerbound is fully deterministic — which turns the entire climb into one enormous logic puzzle. And you can solve it.
Towerbound is an independent, modern remake of Tower of the Sorcerer (魔法の塔 / 魔塔). It preserves the original 50-floor layouts and the placement of monsters and items, while updating the pixel art, controls, interface, and language support. Walk into a monster and the outcome is already fixed by your stats and theirs. The challenge is choosing which fights to take, and in which order. HP, attack, defense, and gold are currencies; a poorly timed fight, door, or upgrade can seal your way forward.
Key features
- The original 50-floor tower, faithfully recreated with no procedural generation
- Deterministic, RNG-free combat you can calculate before you commit
- Resource management as the core puzzle — HP, attack, defense, gold, and color-coded keys are all currencies
- A growing toolkit of staffs, wings, pickaxes, and bombs — each one a new way to bend the tower's rules
- Altars, merchants, and NPCs — power is for sale, if you can pay the price
- Boss encounters and story beats woven through the climb
- A bestiary that fills in as you defeat each foe
- Full controller support
- Warm, torch-lit pixel art in a single hand-crafted palette
History
Tower of the Sorcerer began as N.W.'s PC-98 game 魔法の塔 and was later ported to Windows by Oz and Kenichi. Towerbound recreates that tower as a modern desktop game with a new visual presentation and full controller support. The original creator's website welcomes derivative works, including related releases on Steam. Towerbound is independently developed and is not presented as an official edition of the original game.
It is developed by Jelte De Proft in Java and LibGDX. Generator scripts draw the game's sprites from a shared pixel-art palette.
Videos
Watch the gameplay trailer on the main Steam page. Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese trailers are available on both the main game and demo Steam pages.
Images
Right-click any image to save it. Gameplay images are unaltered 1920×1080 captures from the demo.
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Monetization & content creation
Streamers, YouTubers, and content creators are welcome and encouraged to publish and monetize videos of Towerbound gameplay — Let's Plays, reviews, guides, and speedruns included. No permission needed; this page is your permission. A note or link back to the Steam page is appreciated but not required.