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Tanglewood

Experience puzzle-platforming the way it’s meant to be. Designed and built on 90’s hardware, Tanglewood is a 16-bit love letter to the golden age of gaming. Guide Nymn home through a forest filled with danger, in classic 2D pixel-art style.

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Positive (49) - 91% of the 49 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Aug 14, 2018

Developer:

Big Evil Corporation

Publisher:

Big Evil Corporation

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔

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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 This 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!

A true 16-bit game, designed and programmed on 90’s hardware
28 levels across eight story chapters
Fast-paced 2D platforming meets interesting puzzles, tricks and surprises
Hand-crafted pixel art with fluid animation
Original soundtrack by freezedream, designed for the gorgeous tones of the YM2612
Day/night cycle, secrets, achievements and collectables

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS *: Windows 7+
Processor: Dual Core 1.8ghz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD
Storage: 50 MB available space

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

Minimum:

OS: MacOS Sierra 10.12.5+
Processor: Dual Core 1.8ghz
Memory: 1 GB RAM

* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.

Minimum:

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS+ or equivalent
Processor: Dual Core 1.8ghz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Additional Notes: Requires accelerated OpenGL drivers

TANGLEWOOD® is a registered trademark of Big Evil Corporation Ltd.

TANGLEWOOD® is not licensed, sponsored, published, or endorsed by SEGA Enterprises Ltd, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Holdings Co, or their affiliates.

Big Evil Corporation Ltd is an independent games development studio. This title is an unofficial and unlicensed release for the SEGA Mega Drive console, and is not affiliated with SEGA Enterprises Ltd, SEGA Corporation, or SEGA Holdings Co.

SEGA® and MEGA DRIVE are trademarks of SEGA Holdings Co.

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