Babel Climbers

Babel Climbers is set in a closed tower whose climbers pass on information and history while exploring a new world. You move through its layers, learn about changes through interactions and search its details for clues to humanity’s future. Each run uses randomized character growth and fragmented interactions and storytelling.

Explore the tower

The tower’s floors are made of bricks. Click a die to move randomly, then talk to the characters you encounter. You can cut down trees for wood or fertilize them to earn more when you pass them again, choose whether to give to beggars or do something harmful, and encounter random brick runes that affect your situation. You must also defeat each tower keeper within a time limit.

Fight with cards

Combat uses time points and cards. Playing cards always costs relative time points, and turns always pass to characters with low points. You can create a hard straight to attack opponents and watch their state to choose when to act. Learn skills of different qualities from masters and freely combine factions.

Items and growth

Items affect both you and NPCs during adventures. Equipment has random affixes that you can strengthen, while artifacts have unique destiny skills that you can pair with your card school. Cooking and eating food restores physical strength and provides permanent attribute growth. You can also use medicine, musical instruments, letters, books and other items.

Generations of climbers

A run takes 2–3 hours. When a climber falls, the next generation sets out; at higher difficulty, the world advances and its content and ending change. Equipment can be kept permanently as relics and collected in future runs using specific recipes.