The Tower at Tortenna’s mystery hides in a puzzle of a still-life city

The Tower at Tortenna’s story unfolds as you explore a quiet, mysterious city that’s seemingly abandoned by its inhabitants. Tower Team International developed it during the annual three-day DreamHack game jam, and it was picked as the winner out of 171 games. It’s now available for PC and Mac on the indie game store Itch.io and on Game Jolt.

DreamHack Jam’s theme was “apocalypse,” and Tortenna is a peaceful though eerie interpretation of it. You spend most of your time exploring vacant structures and climbing upward into a tower high above an empty city, reading the spines of books and notes that others have left behind. You’re like a ghost, haunting a structure that’s stuck out of time, scattered with both arcane ancient ornaments and modern tools. It’s a slow, quiet game that seems to exalt in its sense of solitude.