Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Warlock's Tower
A puzzler w/ one brutal rule: one move equals one life lost
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Warlock's Tower launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I’ve been working on a puzzle game for a few years as a side project. The game is based on a small region of tiles in a grid that is mirrored, modified, and mirrored again. It’s based on a novel phenomenon I noticed where, once these mutations happen a few times, the original region can be hard to recognize. You have a feeling there are symmetries in the image, but they are just out of grasp. Going further, if only part of the region is visible, such as mirroring off the edge of the board, it adds to the feeling and it becomes a satisfying puzzle to solve. I originally published this on the…
2024 · hidden-mirrors.com · its alternatives →
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An Online Tower Defense game with RPG elements.
2016 · its alternatives →
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This is an idea I’ve been kicking around for a long time, and I decided to finally code it up. In the same way that Scrabble decomposes words into letters, what if there was a game that decomposed letters into sub-shapes? There’s a lot of directions this could go, and I’m still exploring the possibility space. Enjoy. Suggestions welcome. It doesn’t have a real name yet.
2024 · shovemedia.com · its alternatives →
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