Tanglewood

Big Evil Corporation · 14 Aug 2018

Critic Score

Based on 1 reviews

PEGI 7

PCNintendo Switch

About

Set in a fictional world, this puzzle-platforming game follows a young creature, Nymn, who is separated from the family pack after the sun sets. Unable to get back to the safety of the underground home, Nymn must find a way to survive the night terrors and get to morning. Tanglewood's world is a dangerous one after dark, and Nymn must use skills of evasion, special abilities, traps and trickery to defeat predators.

Purchase Mega Drive Cartridge

Tanglewood: physical edition available now!

ROMs just don’t do it for you, huh? We get it. You can purchase Tanglewood on a cartridge here. It’s multi-region, and compatible with original PAL, NTSC and NTSC-J SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis consoles. It’ll even work on most clone consoles!

About the Game

They don’t make them like this any more. Designed from scratch on 90’s development hardware, built from the ground up in raw 68000 assembly code, Tanglewood is a true 16-bit platformer—now available on modern systems.

Originally released on SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, Tanglewood is now on Steam! We at Big Evil Towers asked a couple of friends to help out, and they came through—quickly building a bespoke Mega Drive emulator, meaning you can play Tanglewood on PC exactly as it should be.

But there’s more: every digital copy of Tanglewood includes the Mega Drive ROM, DRM-free, for you to do with as you please. Use your own favourite emulator, play on original hardware via a flash cart, add to your Retropie setup—it’s your game. Take it and have fun!

Anyway, the game: Nymn is a young Djunn, who has been separated from his pack. Lost, nervous and alone, he needs to find his way through the sprawling forest of Tanglewood—a place of darkness, night terrors and strange, hungry beasts.

Help Nymn make it through to morning by using special abilities, lateral thinking and quick reactions to avoid, defeat and overcome the challenges and monsters that await!