Twisted Tower Beginner Guide: Plan Your First Climb

Twisted Tower is a first-person action game built around a televised climb through five themed areas. Your immediate goal is simple—keep moving upward—but each space mixes combat, platforming, and hidden routes. This guide stays spoiler-light and focuses on a reliable first-run routine.

What should you learn first?

Prioritize movement before damage. The official description calls out jumping, dashing, and grappling as core traversal tools. Spend the opening rooms learning how each action changes your momentum and recovery distance; confident movement makes both enemy encounters and environmental hazards easier to read.

1. Test a standing jump and a running jump.
2. Learn how far a dash carries you before using it near an edge.
3. Treat grapple points as route options, not only emergency saves.
4. Look behind and above you after entering a large room.

How should you choose weapons?

Use the toy arsenal as a set of different problem-solving tools. Twisted Tower officially features melee, pistol, shotgun, rapid-fire, sniper, and ray-gun-style weapons. Try each pickup in a safe space, note its useful distance, then keep the option that fits the room ahead rather than chasing one permanent favorite.

See the complete toy weapons guide for the officially named arsenal.

What is the safest room-by-room routine?

Pause at the entrance, identify high ground and moving hazards, clear enough space to move, then search the edges before leaving. The game’s five areas deliberately change their visual language, so a route that feels obvious in the hotel may not be the best approach in the waterpark or space station.

A practical first-run rule: movement route first, threats second, secrets third, exit last.

Which area comes next?

The official five-area lineup is the hotel, waterpark, clown casino, carnival forest, and space station. For a spoiler-light route map, use the five-area walkthrough planner.

Official sources

• Twisted Tower on Steam
• 3D Realms release announcement