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Scarlet Tower

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

Hunt during the day, be hunted during the NIGHT! Scarlet Tower is a gothic horror casual game with roguelike and RPG elements, like talent trees, classes, familiars and more!

What works

  • Addictive and challenging gameplay
  • Robust meta-progression and upgrade systems
  • Distinct characters with unique abilities
  • Engaging gothic fantasy art style and music
  • Frequent developer updates and community responsiveness

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and ui issues reported
  • Limited content and maps currently
  • Steep learning curve and complex mechanics
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative modes
  • Visual clutter and difficulty in seeing enemies at times

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Magic Rune Stone

  • Neon Abyss

  • Halls of Torment: Prelude

  • Soulstone Survivors: Prologue

  • Spell Disk

  • Beautiful Mystic Survivors

More story-driven

Games that feels like Scarlet Tower but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok

  • Death Must Die

  • Bloody Hell

  • Twilight Survivors

  • Tales of Spark

  • Reality Break

Less exploratory

Games that feels like Scarlet Tower but with less exploration of areas and secrets

  • Demon Hunt

  • Grind Survivors

  • Asgard's Fall: Origins

  • Soulstone Survivors

  • Ketz: Galactic Overlords

  • Hollow Survivors: Prologue

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Scarlet Tower: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Leadership.

Last update: 04/08/2026