Fit check
Is Tower Behind the Moon worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Readers of interactive fantasy fiction who want a text-based story
- RPG players interested in branching choices and magical paths
- Players drawn to stories about gods, demons, and immortality
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking graphics, animation, or sound effects
- Readers who prefer short works instead of a 400,000-word text-based novel
- Players looking for a grounded setting rather than gods, demons, magic, and the dead
Our take on Tower Behind the Moon
The fantasy stakes and enormous word count receive the attention, while the presentation can be overlooked: this is entirely text-based and has no graphics or sound effects. Its main activity is reading and making choices within the story.
What is Tower Behind the Moon?
Tower Behind the Moon is a 400,000-word interactive fantasy novel presented entirely as text, without graphics or sound effects.
Players guide a magician preparing for ascension during a celestial conjunction one month away. Choices shape the story as gods, angels, demons, mortal princes, servants, enemies, and the shade of a failed mentor affect the fate of the tower. Five magical paths provide different servants and spells. The journey reaches underworld castles, heaven’s back-alleys, and kingdoms of the dead. Possible transformations include becoming a demon, god, undead lich, shining immortal, or living continent. The story also includes options to play as male, female, or nonbinary, and to be gay, straight, bi, or ace.
How Tower Behind the Moon plays
- 01Choice-driven narrative
- Decisions shape the story and can lead to different transformations or fates.
- 02Five magical paths
- Each path has its own servants and spells.
- 03Text-only presentation
- The novel contains no graphics or sound effects.
- 04Diverse protagonists
- The story allows male, female, or nonbinary characters and gay, straight, bi, or ace identities.
- 05Otherworldly settings
- The narrative travels through underworld castles, heaven’s back-alleys, and realms of the dead.
Tower Behind the Moon compared to similar games
Tower Behind the Moon is a text-based interactive fantasy novel focused on choices, magical paths, and an archmage’s attempt to reach immortality. Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition centers on exploration, characters, and a soundtrack, while Back to the Dawn focuses on prison survival, investigation, crime, and escape.
Tower Behind the Moon: platforms & release
Is Tower Behind the Moon worth it?
It is worth it if: readers of interactive fantasy fiction who want a text-based story. Skip it if: players seeking graphics, animation, or sound effects.
Where can I download Tower Behind the Moon?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Tower Behind the Moon's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Tower Behind the Moon on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
