10 Best Games Like Twisted Tower

You can think of Twisted Tower like BioShock meets Willy Wonka. The atmosphere haunts you to the bone as you explore an amusement park crawling with terrifying mascots gone rogue. Your weapons? Hilarious toy-based mallets and farting shotguns that explode the mascots into confetti on impact. Yet, you’re always on the move, running and jumping across a carnival of madness, and vowing to rescue your damsel in distress at whatever cost. 

Sounds like your type of chaos? Well, settle in for the rundown of the best games like Twisted Tower. From the highly mobile Finding Frankie, to the focused boomer shooter DOOM, and the haunted atmospheric BioShock, I’ve gathered games offering excellent doses of mascot horror, tense first-person shooting, survival, and resource management mechanics across the board.

10. Finding Frankie

In Twisted Tower, you’re always on the move, running, jumping, and dodging deranged mascots. Finding Frankie is like that on steroids. Rather than a game show, you enter a parkour show, where terrifying mascots are chasing you and leaping out of nowhere. The parkour courses have puzzles and obstacles, too, like a death-defying platforming run. But the feature that will likely grab your attention the most is the art style, with colorful sparks flying and flashing lights. It’s chaos and madness, swinging, jumping, hopping on trampolines, straight down to the finish line.

9. Poppy Playtime

Poppy Playtime ranks up next, focusing on mascot horror and puzzle mechanics. The setting is an abandoned toy factory, where you’re unfortunate enough to be the one to explore its isolated spaces and figure out the truth of what happened here. The environment is the key to solving puzzles, from the objects you can grab to jam open doors and hack electrical circuits. And no matter what, you mustn’t get caught by some pretty brutal and vengeful toys.

8. DOOM 

Leave alone the modern-day DOOM experience, which is stylish, dark, and bloody in its own right. Twisted Tower plays like the classic DOOM series and Quake before it. In the ‘90s, this first-person boomer shooter nailed engaging level design, flooding with waves of enemies, and demanding nonstop shooting. Hordes of demons must be sent back to hell, and as the demon slayer, you’re given a powerful set of weapons and all the ammo you need to blast them into oblivion.

7. My Friendly Neighborhood

I especially love the story in My Friendly Neighborhood. What used to be everyone’s favorite Saturday morning puppet show has turned into a nightmare, so much so that the studio is forced to close down. Years later, though, the disturbing events from the show return on TV, and as a repairman, you’re sent to investigate. Before you know it, bloodthirsty puppets start coming at you, and you have to make the most of handyman tools. It’s all you’ve got to survive.

6. Bendy and the Dark Revival

Bendy and the Ink Machine is a treat. But have you played the sequel, Bendy and the Dark Revival? It’s more action-focused, perfectly fitting for the best games like Twisted Tower. Events take place in a cartoon studio, where the Ink Demon haunts its abandoned, dark walls. The vintage aesthetic is pretty fun, which helps a bit to withstand the dread that the monsters and the shadows drive through you.

5. Indigo Park 

The gates of Indigo Park spring open, well, only to you, a curious soul wanting to investigate the reasons it shut down. Your guide is an adorable raccoon that gives the impression that the amusement park really was something special. Until things started going horribly wrong. 

4. Escape the Backrooms

I had to include Escape the Backrooms among the best games like Twisted Tower. Yellow suits, damp carpets, and claustrophobic walls make up a fear-induced walking simulator. When twisted entities haunt you, and you keep turning around in an endless hallway, it can really send your mind spinning. There are over 30 levels, each one posing its own dangers. Plus, you can always bring friends along, though you have to watch out for one another, as they might no-clip through the walls. 

3. Choo-Choo Charles

Twisted Tower has whack-a-mole mallets and rubber-band pistols. Your Tommy Gun throws darts and chain-gun spits bubblegum. And the mascots explode into confetti. In the spirit of unconventional weapons, Choo-Choo Charles proposes that you hop into the driver’s seat of an old train and use it to shoot at an evil spider train called Charles. Fun, right? The tracks have sharp bends, so you have to steer carefully. Planning ahead is also key, and consider the possibility of switching directions to escape Charles. It’s also great that there’s an open-world island exploration bit, where you go looking for scraps that can upgrade your train’s offense or just help out the settlers you run into in exchange for better weapons.

2. BioShock

And then comes the game that’s been compared to Twisted Tower, BioShock. Both games share the 1950s aesthetic. The environments are storytellers, the vintage neon signs, the ad signs, and even time-appropriate music. Gameplay as well carries similarities in first-person shooting, psychological horror, and bonkers combat systems. And of course, the monsters that keep you up at night. If you’re looking to move away from the Willy Wonka vibe into a more sci-fi, dystopian, biopunk world with retrofuturism at its core, try out BioShock. 

1. Five Nights at Freddy’s

The theme about mascots going crazy has been popularized by the fantastic Five Nights at Freddy’s. Taking place at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza restaurant, you’re working the night shift when the friendly robots meant to entertain guests go haywire. Since the restaurant is cutting costs, you turn off the lights and supervise the place from the CCTV room. Except that Freddy and his friends play mind tricks on you. Things aren’t as they seem, which induces a special kind of dread from behind the monitors. And when push comes to shove, you might be forced to leave your post and face the threat head-on.