½ of indie game co SFB Games w/ brother @SFBDim MAKING: The Mermaid Mask MADE: Crow Country, Tangle Tower, Snipperclips, Haunt the House, Detective Grimoire
London, UK - He/him
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ANNOUNCING: a new Crow Country collaboration with @Fangamer! What could they be...? You won't have to wait long to find out!
And that's not all-
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#TurningRed I spent a little too long last night making this, just to exorcise it from my brain
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Never in my wildest dreams as a young gamedev did I think I'd one day have the Nintendo Seal of Quality on one of my games!
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What a lot of replies, that are surely all about Crow Country! Now, let me take a big gulp of coffee and read through them
Crow Country is a love letter to classic PlayStation horror titles.
Learn how the dev wanted to honor and improve on the genre: play.st/3Qub74t
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If you listen very carefully, you'll hear the groans of thousands of game developers all at once
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Crow Country is closing in on 6,000 Steam reviews across all languages, and we still have a 98% positive review score 💖
🐦⬛Crow Country is 50% off for the first time in the Steam Halloween Sale!
Our PS1-inspired survival horror is great for Halloween; play the classically creepy Survival Horror mode, the safe-but-spooky Exploration mode, or the chillingly hard Murder of Crows mode
⬇️Link below:
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AMAZING NEWS: Crow Country has reached 100,000 copies sold!!
We hit the milestone thanks to last week's Nintendo Switch launch, and that's not even counting today's PS4 launch!
Thank you to everyone who's played the game, reviewed it, streamed it or shared it with others 🐦⬛💖
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Non-horror content creators, don't forget that Crow Country has an Exploration Mode that turns off all enemies, combat and danger, so you can play through as a spooky puzzle adventure game instead, with the full story intact!
CONTENT CREATORS & GAMES PRESS. D’ya like PS1 games? Survival horror?? Abandoned theme parks???
Very excited to be PR lead for Crow Country, from the creators of Snipperclips and Tangle Tower - get in touch if fancy a review code! (RTs/likes appreciated!)
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Freya's been murdered. Her killer is... a painting!? 🖼️🔪
Tangle Tower is out on the #NintendoSwitch eShop!
nintendo.com/games/detail/ta…
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Snipperclips was released one year ago today! A huge thank you to everyone who's played and supported the game, it's been incredible!!
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As part of our Tangle Tower stream for #LudoNarraCon, I did a short look at our animation system, since it’s one of the things I’m most proud of as the game's programmer.
I’d like to show it in a bit more detail, so here we go!
THREAD (1/20)
#MadeWithUnity #GameDev #IndieDev
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The first small patch for Crow Country went up last night, and here are the patch notes in full:
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A fun milestone I spotted right before I head to bed, Crow Country has over 3000 reviews on Steam!
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Hi! Yes, we are making Snipperclips with Nintendo! Thanks for the great feedback, we can't wait for you all to have fun playing it together!
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Tangle Tower was due to launch on Stadia in 2 days time, and this article was the first I heard about it shutting down 😢
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I'm taking this as a small mark of success: our first Crow Country negative Steam review saying it's overrated! Bound to happen sometime!
The thing with Steam's review system is, 99% doesn't mean everyone thinks it's 9.9/10, it means that 99% of people think it's at least 6/10.
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In less than 6 days, Crow Country has gathered over 1,000 reviews on Steam, and has kept its 99% positive rating!!
Thank you again to everyone who's played, streamed, shared, made videos, written words and made this launch our best ever ❤️🐦⬛
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announcing: THE MERMAID'S TONGUE
Detective Grimoire and Sally have been summoned to investigate the mysterious murder of Magnus Mortuga, captain of the world's strangest submarine…
Coming 2024 to Steam & consoles!
Play the demo & wishlist on Steam now, links below:
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Bonus: since it was redrawn, here's a transparent template, so that you too an help to run this meme into the ground✨
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Oh WOW, this is amazing!! Especially considering the stiff competition this May. Thank you to everyone who voted for Crow Country!!
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🐦⬛Crow Country is 50% off for the first time in the Steam Halloween Sale!
Our PS1-inspired survival horror is great for Halloween; play the classically creepy Survival Horror mode, the safe-but-spooky Exploration mode, or the chillingly hard Murder of Crows mode
⬇️Link below:
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Crow Country is 6 months old today! Beyond our wildest hopes at every turn, I'm so happy that folks have enjoyed it this much!
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🚨ChipTone has a new home!🚨
My free sound effects tool now runs in HTML5, not Flash, and there's a new Windows downloadable version available too. So @itchio is the perfect place to host it from now on!
sfbgames.itch.io/chiptone
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If you haven't wishlisted Crow Country on Steam yet, please take a look, we're so close to hitting a huge goal!
A PS1-inspired Survival-Horror set in a 90s abandoned theme park
There's also an Exploration Mode that removes all danger and turns it into a spooky adventure game!
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Listen. I try not to be too materialistic. But there is no object I want more in this life than these Snipperclips chairs that Nintendo had made for the Switch preview tour in the USA.
The faces.
THE FEET.
I know there were at least 6 made, but I've no clue where they are now!
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I'm very happy to say
🔍Tangle Tower is OUT NOW on Steam, Nintendo Switch & Apple Arcade!
Described as "Phoenix Wright meets Professor Layton", our new detective adventure game is here:
Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3…
Switch nintendo.com/games/detail/ta…
Arcade apps.apple.com/app/tangle-to…
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In light of the latest Valve announcement on AI, and the SAG-AFTRA AI voice deal, I think it's important to say:
SFB Games will not use generative AI in any of it's current forms for making any part of our games, be it voices, art, animation, code, anything.
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"A painting can't be a murder suspect..."
Our new detective adventure game TANGLE TOWER is out NOW on @AppleArcade!
🔎 apps.apple.com/us/app/tangle…
And coming OCTOBER 10th on Steam & Nintendo Switch!
🔎 store.steampowered.com/app/3…
❤️ Wishlist, share & RT please! ❤️
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Today marks 7 days since Crow Country launched. What a week!
It also marks SFB Games' 12th birthday! Thanks for keeping us going for so long, here's hoping @sfbdim and I can do what we do for many years to come
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Never let it be said we don't have tonal range
announcing: CROW COUNTRY (Demo out NOW on Steam/PS5)
A survival horror game from SFB Games with a RE1/FFVII aesthetic. Locked doors, rusty keys, heart monitor health meter, dreamlike atmosphere, environments that evoke pre-rendered art (but are actually full 3D)
Links in replies-
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Marching Order is our new little game, out now! It's a cute logic puzzle game about trying to put a marching band in order based on their social media posts!
AppStore: itunes.apple.com/us/app/marc…
Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Featuring music by @boenyeah
RTs appreciated!
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With #LDJAM #LD40 starting in a few hours, here's a reminder that I made a sequel to as3sfxr which improves on a lot of things!
It's called ChipTone, it's a free sound effects tool for anyone to use, and all sounds made with it are under the CC0 license! sfbgames.com/chiptone/
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We just announced Crow Country coming to Switch and PS4 in time for Halloween! Plus updates to the Steam, PS5 and Xbox versions!
We've re-opened content creator key signups for the spooky season - console keys are limited but Steam keys are plentiful
🐦⬛ play.neonhive.games/Crow-Cou…
CROW COUNTRY is coming to NINTENDO SWITCH and PS4 on OCT 16!
New languages coming to all versions: Italian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese - and launching in Asia
Links below-
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Cosigned, someone who made a game in 15 languages that's full of sentence-building puzzles 🙃
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One of the nicest parts of making games with just Adam and me as the dev team is that we can move FAST. A little over two weeks since launch and we've got our first major update out, and on my birthday no less!
New mode added to Crow Country:
MURDER OF CROWS
🐦⬛It's Hard Mode!
🐦⬛Resources are more limited
🐦⬛Enemies are more aggressive
🐦⬛New Rank requirements
🐦⬛It doesn't need to be unlocked
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For the first time, Crow Country is 20% off on both Steam and PS5!
Our PS1 inspired survival horror is just right for Halloween; play the classically creepy Survival Horror mode, the safe-but-spooky Exploration mode, or the chillingly hard Murder of Crows mode!
Links below:
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Tangle Tower:
It's a murder mystery detective adventure, like Ace Attorney and Professor Layton had a baby!
There's a free music player update coming soon!
It's 40% off on Steam and Switch right now!
I like it a lot and I'm very proud we made it!!
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The Switch turns two years old today, which means Snipperclips turns two as well! So it's been out in the world for longer than we spent making it? The passage of time is weird! Happy birthday Snip and Clip!
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Did you know: we have more Crow Country news to share soon? We're really leaning into OctCrowber this month! 🐦⬛
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Tangle Tower looks super nice, and is 40% off on the Nintendo Switch eShop right now. That's it, that's my pitch.
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In an absolutely PACKED year, Crow Country made The Guardian's top 20 games of the year list!
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Happy 7th birthday to the Switch and to Snipperclips, the first console game we ever made! 💛❤️
I still think about these chairs sometimes... One day...
Listen. I try not to be too materialistic. But there is no object I want more in this life than these Snipperclips chairs that Nintendo had made for the Switch preview tour in the USA.
The faces.
THE FEET.
I know there were at least 6 made, but I've no clue where they are now!
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There's even more coming in 2025! Those boxes look familiar...
For more info, sign up to the @Fangamer newsletter here:
fangamer.com/newsletter
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I made a Snipperclips stage in Smash! Snip and Clip both rotate slowly! #StageSmashBros #SmashBros #SmashBrosUltimate #NintendoSwitch
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Killed by... a painting?! 💔🗡️🖼️
Tangle Tower is now available on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One!
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Hi, we're SFB Games, and we, uh, definitely have a specific type of game we like to make... We just have to figure out what that is.....
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It's a Crowstmas miracle! Thanks in part to Christmas day being our best day for sales since June, Crow Country now has over 4,000 reviews on Steam, and is still rated 98%! Thank you to everyone who's left feedback on any of the stores, it's been a genuine pleasure to read 🖤
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We had a late family Christmas get-together this weekend, and for our secret santa, my sister @Maddyology designed and made for me...
🚨CROW COUNTRY LEGO🚨
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You know what though, just in case... please share and wishlist Crow Country 🙏🐦⬛
store.steampowered.com/app/1…
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I think all the big indie games that came out in early May (Animal Well, Little Kitty Big City, Indika, Another Crab's Treasure, Crow Country, etc etc) should get together and do the world's most ridiculous crossover DLC
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And here is the result. Each character fits into a single 4096x4096 spritesheet, and honestly they’re all beautiful. Rivers of hands and hair and limbs, all that a character is and can be in one picture. When Unity imports it, it comes back out as individual Sprites (11/20)
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.@NintendoUK sent us an xmas card this year, and look who's nestled among the Animal Crossing leaf, Zelda Z and Cappy?
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One year ago today, we launched Tangle Tower as part of the @AppleArcade lineup, soon followed by Steam and Switch versions. We've been delighted with the reaction - to this day, Tangle Tower is the highest rated game on Apple Arcade, both globally and in the USA!
❤️Thank you!💚
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Crow Country finally released on Nintendo Switch, just in time for Halloween!
We've been working pretty solidly on it ever since the original game launch back in May, so it's very gratifying to finally have it in people's hands (literally!)
Just the PS4 launch next week to go!
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Happy 4th birthday to Snipperclips! Still wild to think that our little game was there on Switch launch day.
Thanks to everyone who's cut it out, together!
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Oh, it looks like the Unity Awards are open for nominations...
Crow Country was made in Unity, just saying, if you wanted to nominate it, that would be cool I guess 👉👈
unity.com/awards
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With Crow Country, we were trying to evoke what you remember PS1 games looking like, not exactly how they looked
Ockeroid managed to absolutely nail that same vibe for the soundtrack - somehow at once a retro MIDI-like OST and a modern horror soundscape. A beautiful magic trick
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Now @SFBDim just has to timeline all 385 conversations…
And this is the end result. A lot of work to get here from pretty much the whole team, but I really think it paid off, and we’re very happy with the way it looks in the game!
END THREAD (20/20)
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Left: the 2017 results (equal weight per seat). Right: a map of the swing in votes, regardless of who won. (Source: nytimes.com/interactive/2017…)
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The Mermaid's Tongue, our new mystery detective adventure game, is coming 2024 to Steam and consoles - the free demo is out now!
Huge thanks again to @DoubleFine and @iam8bit for having us in their Day of the Devs showcase for The Game Awards! Here's the reveal video we showed:
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SFB Games has just turned 10 years old, and it's been 20 years since @SFBDim and I started making games together on an old laptop borrowed from school for the summer. Quite a journey!
To celebrate, Tangle Tower is 75% off on Steam as todays Daily Deal! 💖
store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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Xbox has picked Crow Country as one of their 6 best indie games of 2024! Check out the rest of the list, it's incredible company to be in
To celebrate, Crow Country is 20% off on Xbox!
We're celebrating one year of Indie Selects!
Join in on the festivities as we crown our top Indie Selects from 2024 and kick off a huge indie game sale: xbx.lv/3PUy6VJ
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It is our sincerest hope that Crow Country gets picked up as a speedrunning game. I want to see it absolutely torn apart, perfectly routed, every glitch exploited - our policy will be to never fix glitches that help speed runners unless they affect the average player negatively!
PB is 32:30, but the RNG with Gasoline is wild. Probably going to be an insanely popular game for speedruns, it feels exactly like how 90s survival horror games feel in a speedrun sense.
piped.video/watch?v=5NGgkBjV…
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Excited to play Danganronpa on Switch? You should be, it's weird and brilliant!
Want to play a great detective game on Switch while you wait? You should play Return of the Obra Dinn!
Already played Obra Dinn?
Then Tangle Tower might be for you!
🔎40% off on the eShop now!🔍
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Yesterday marked one month since we announced The Mermaid's Tongue. How's it gone since then? Really well so far!
It already has 6x as many wishlists as Tangle Tower had at launch, and it's now the ~1400th most wishlisted game on Steam (and climbing)
Excited for the year ahead!
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PS4 Crow Country update: Hi everyone! Due to an unfortunate scheduling issue, the PS4 release of Crow Country has been set back (less than a week) to Oct 22nd
Thank you for your understanding & patience, and we really appreciate all your support for Crow Country!
Details below-
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Had an ice cream flavoured beer and played some Splatoon, which has helped ease the pain a little, but it's still pretty upsetting
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Announcing: Crow Country physical editions, both Standard and the newly announced Deluxe version! Both come with goodies packed in, but that Deluxe version is something special 💖🐦⬛
Preorders for our Crow Country physical editions are live!
Choose from the Deluxe or Standard edition for Nintendo Switch or PlayStation 5: fanga.me/r/crow-country-delu…
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Continuing the Crow Country 1st birthday celebrations, we just released the full game & demo on @itchio, with a 25% launch discount for the first week! Both DRM-free 🐦⬛
Link below:
Crow Country is one year old today! Thanks so much for all the amazing support - everyone who’s played it, recommended it, streamed it, made videos, speedruns, fanart, cosplays and everything else! ❤️
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The demo for our freshly announced horror survival game Crow Country is in the Steam Scream Halloween event!
Classic horror gameplay with a retro PlayStation look, inspired by games like Final Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil
Play the demo + wishlist please!
store.steampowered.com/app/1…
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Relive the horror of the '90s with our new Fear the Crow Bundle
🔦🐦⬛
Until Jan 2nd, get both Crow Country and Fear the Spotlight (by the lovely @cozygamepals/@BlumhouseGames) together for a total of 31% off in the Steam Winter Sale!
Bundle link in the tweet below:
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🔎Tangle Tower is 80% off in the Steam Summer Sale!🔍
If you haven't played our
🎨hand-painted
🙆lovingly animated
🗣️fully voiced
🕵️detective mystery adventure game yet...
now is the perfect time!
Link in the tweet below:
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I think you should wishlist our upcoming point & click detective adventure game "The Mermaid Mask" on Steam, so that we can budget for a Switch 2!
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Tangle Tower is 40% off on Steam!
Do you like Ace Attorney, Professor Layton, games like that? So do we, that's why we had a go at making one! Backfired a little, turns out you can't be surprised by your own game?!
You might like it though:
store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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The Crow Country Original Soundtrack, by the brilliant @Ockeroid, is now available on Steam and Bandcamp!
Ockeroid was so great to work with, and absolutely nailed the vibe throughout the whole game. So please support them by buying a copy if you enjoyed the music!
Links below:
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The little mushroom boys won't talk to anyone from France.
The little mushroom boys will shout at anyone from Germany.
The little mushroom boys will shun anyone from Sweden.
The little mushroom boys will berate anyone from Spain.
And so on. Anyone have any guesses?
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Six months ago today, we announced Crow Country, and now we're just 16 days away from the May 9th launch! We've been floored by the response - to the demo and to everything from the full game we've shown so far. Thanks to everyone who's shown their excitement!!
announcing: CROW COUNTRY (Demo out NOW on Steam/PS5)
A survival horror game from SFB Games with a RE1/FFVII aesthetic. Locked doors, rusty keys, heart monitor health meter, dreamlike atmosphere, environments that evoke pre-rendered art (but are actually full 3D)
Links in replies-
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Out now: FREE Tangle Tower Demo versions on Steam & Nintendo Switch!
ALSO out now: Free update with huge art gallery! Full of concepts, early designs & artists' notes from @Ungapants, @jharrisanim & @SFBDim
Out on Apple Arcade, Steam & Nintendo Switch!
TangleTowerGame.com
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☀️Tangle Tower is 30% off in the #SteamSummerSale!
⛱️FREE demo now available!
🏝️store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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