Tower of Guns

Each run of Tower of Guns drops you into a first-person shooter built from randomized rooms, randomized enemies, and randomized bosses, with the expectation that you will finish—or fail—within an hour or two. Developed by Joe Mirabello of Terrible Posture Games, with music composed by his brother Mike, the game was released on March 4, 2014, and positions itself as a complete experience inside a single sitting rather than a campaign you return to across many sessions.

Movement is the foundation: circle-strafing at high speed, the way shooters demanded before aim assistance became standard. What makes a run feel different each time is the stacking of powerups that bend the rules of the space—jump count, for instance, can be extended far beyond a double jump through item combinations. Weapons carry their own modifiers that can be mixed and matched, so a rocket launcher might acquire shotgun spread, producing behavior the base weapon never had. The randomization extends to level composition itself, meaning the geometry of rooms shifts between runs alongside the enemy types and boss encounters.

Players who want deliberate build crafting with predictable variables, or who need longer sessions to feel rewarded, tend to bounce off Tower of Guns quickly. The design never offers a save state mid-run; commitment to a single sitting is the contract.

The update feed after release shows the game settling into a stable state fairly early, with activity in later years coming primarily from publisher Versus Evil’s recurring sales rather than content patches. The most notable signal from Terrible Posture Games in the feed is the June 2022 release of MOTHERGUNSHIP: FORGE, suggesting the studio moved on to new projects while Tower of Guns remained available as a finished product.