Isometric soulslike ◆ PC
Every enemy in the Tower of Babel announces its blow in a dead language. You can't read it, so you roll. Learn its letters, and the same attack becomes a window you can answer.
Free demo in Steam Next Fest, October 19–26
The free demo is live now in Steam Next Fest
The core of it
Every foe speaks its blow before it lands: a word that burns above it as it winds up. The whole game is learning to read those words.
I
You can't read it yet. Its letters shuffle and won't hold still. You can't parry it and you can't guard it. You roll, and you live.
II
Each floor keeps a statue. It grants a word of power, and three letters of their tongue. Every power you earn teaches you to read.
III
Same wind-up, same speed. The body never lies. But the word is white now, and white can be answered: parry on the beat, and the bell rings.
Hands on
Your first seconds in the Tower. A word rises and the ring closes. Red: roll. White: parry, the instant it lands.
K parry Space roll or a gamepadTap Roll or Parry under the ring
Press to begin
Round one: their tongue is still noise to you.
The climb
Committed blows. The hit lands where the blade ends its swing.
Every blow is a word. Red: move. White: answer.
Statues teach letters. Every letter makes another blow readable.
Every word has three ranks, and every rank changes how it looks.
Each stratum ends in a keeper, and every keeper is an exam.
Committed combat
No animation cancels, no spam that skips its recovery. You commit, and so do they.
Words of power
Your powers are words. Each one you earn at a statue comes with the letters to read your enemies. The demo teaches four.
"The floor answers. What is open can be struck."
Split the ground and leave every guard inside the break brittle.
"You are elsewhere. Walls stop being walls."
The way out: through them, behind them. It cuts any commitment.
"What is left standing after it is what mattered. The rest was chaff."
One turn of the whole body throws the circle into the air. The fire keeps the chaff.
"Mark the ground. A breath later the sky opens."
Lightning, then the Divine Sword itself, point-first. While it stands, it mends you.
IIIIII Every rank changes the word you see, not just its number.
The rest of the language waits higher in the Tower.
Those who speak
Learn how each one speaks: its words, its rhythm, the breath between its sentences. Tap a card to read its word.
The wall. Its words fall like stone.
The rush. Readable from across the room, if you know the letter.
Fire at range. A guard in time sends it home.
Many, fast, and burning even as they fall.
Frost and feet. Its chain ends in red.
The author. It writes the next foe into the fight.
Every stratum ends in an exam
A colossus with a hammer and a grammar of its own. It chooses its sentences by where you stand, and the breath between them is your only invitation.
Explore
Not a menu of rooms: a place. Leap between floating islands, cross the bridges the ink writes for you, ride the floors that carry you over the sea and the lift that turns into a shortcut, and watch the altimeter count every metre you win.
The Tower of Babel
Each stratum is its own world with its own tongue. The demo opens the first: the Scriptorium, the halls where the tongues were copied, galleries of stone over a sea of ink.
The prologue
One envoy is sent to climb it, with a rod, a bell, and not one word of its tongues.
Steam Next Fest · October 19–26
The demo climbs the Scriptorium: its chambers, four words of power, and the first keeper. At least two hours, if you read well. And after it, something the Tower has not shown anyone.
The demo goes live on Steam on October 19. Wishlist now and Steam tells you.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 11 64-bit |
| Processor | Quad-core, 2.5 GHz | 6-core, 3.5 GHz |
| Memory | 8 GB RAM | 16 GB RAM |
| Graphics | GTX 1650 / RX 570, 4 GB, Vulkan 1.2 | GTX 1660 Ti / RX 5600 XT |
| Storage | 2 GB | 2 GB |
Questions
January 2027, on Steam, for Windows PC. Wishlist it and Steam will tell you the day it lands.
Yes, and a long one: at least two hours, if you read well. It is free on Steam during Steam Next Fest, October 19–26, 2026.
Yes. Play with keyboard and mouse or with a gamepad; the game shows PlayStation or Xbox prompts for the pad you use.
Yes, and a hard one. The Tower is climbed one stratum at a time, each a run of its own that ends with its keeper. Fall, and part of your favor waits where you fell, until you walk back for it.
Yes. Even one foe, one on one, will test you. But it is fair: every blow tells you what it is before it lands, and what it asks of you. The difficulty is in learning to read it.
English, for the interface and the subtitles.
Del Portal Technologies, an independent studio from Lima, Peru. A game by Jorel del Portal.
Write to support@delportaltechnologies.com for keys, assets and interviews.
Learn the language. Climb higher.
