How to Play

Tower of Destiny is a classic roguelike dungeon crawler. You control a hero ascending an ever-rising tower filled with monsters, traps, treasure, and secrets. Each floor is procedurally generated — no two runs are ever the same.

Tower of Destiny supports two fully independent keybind profiles. You can name each profile and configure its bindings in your Account page under Preferences. On the character creation screen, choose which profile to use before starting or resuming a game.

You can also reassign any keybind live during a game: open the Controls panel in the sidebar, select the Move, Actions, or UI tab, and click the Edit button next to any action. Press the new key to save it instantly — no restart required.

Auto-Pickup: Open the Controls panel and select the Pickup tab to choose which item types are picked up automatically when you step on them. Item types that are not enabled will remain on the floor until you pick them up manually with the pick-up key.

Alignment

Choose Lawful, Neutral, or Chaotic at character creation. Alignment affects which altars bless you, how NPCs react, and certain item interactions. Altars of your alignment grant blessings; opposing altars may curse you.

Item Identification

Many items are unidentified when found — they appear as "???" until you use them, read a Scroll of Identify, or pay a Shopkeeper. Cursed items cannot be unequipped until uncursed. Blessed items grant enhanced effects.

Hunger

Your hero grows hungry over time. The HGR bar shows your current fullness. When starving, you lose HP each turn. Eat food from your inventory (I → Use) to restore fullness. Search floors for hidden food caches.

Visibility & Darkness

Your class determines your starting equipment, base stats, and playstyle. Additional classes can be unlocked through achievements.

Your race modifies your base stats. Some races are unlocked through achievements. Choose wisely — your race shapes your entire run.

🔒 Locked races are unlocked by earning specific achievements across your runs.

Throwing Items

Press Q to open the Throw menu. You can throw inventory items, equipped items, or items on the floor. Heavier items deal more damage but have shorter range. Thrown potions shatter on impact, applying their effect to the target.

Misc Items

Sockets & Gems

Visit the Armorer (glyph: A) to enhance your weapons and armour with sockets and gems. The Armorer appears every third floor in a dedicated room with a Teleport Pad.

The Shop

Some floors contain a Shopkeeper — a non-hostile merchant who sells items for gold. Browse their wares by moving adjacent and interacting. Shopkeepers can also identify items for a fee. Do not steal from them — they remember.

Spellbook

Press B to open your Spellbook. Select a spell to make it active, then press S to cast it — you will be prompted to choose a direction for directional spells. Spells are learned from Scrolls of Learning or granted by your class. Each spell costs MP to cast. Memorise your spells — they can turn the tide of battle.

Spell Reference

Wand Types

Wands are equippable weapons that fire magical beams (W key). Each wand type has a distinct beam colour, damage type, and secondary effect. Wands consume MP per shot and track usage counts. To cancel a wand attack after pressing W, simply press W again — the targeting mode will be dismissed.

Combat is turn-based. Move into an enemy to attack them. Enemies act on every turn you take. Plan your moves carefully — fighting multiple enemies at once is dangerous.

Enemy Types

Each floor of the Tower is procedurally generated. Explore every room — hidden doors and secret passages are revealed by Searching (P). The minimap (N) shows your explored area and marks staircases.

Special Features

Some floors are afflicted by a Floor Curse — a powerful negative effect that persists for the entire floor. Floor Curses are rare and never appear on two consecutive floors. When you ascend to a cursed floor, a message is printed in the game log announcing the curse. The active Floor Curse is displayed under Status Effects in the Player tab of the Character Info screen.

Tip: Floor Curses cannot be removed or dispelled. The only way to escape a Floor Curse is to complete the floor and ascend to the next level. Antidotes and Potions of Cure Poison can manage the damage from the Curse of Poison, but will not remove it permanently.

Deeper floors sometimes conceal a Vault Complex — a fortified area of great danger and greater reward. The complex consists of three interconnected areas: the Vault itself, a Guard Room, and the Secret Passages that link them.

Hidden Doors

Hidden Doors are concealed within the dungeon walls and are completely invisible until discovered. They appear identical to solid stone. To find them, press P to Search adjacent cells — a successful search reveals any hidden door nearby. You can also stumble upon them by digging into the wall with a Pickaxe.

Secret Passages

Beyond a Hidden Door lies a Secret Passage — a narrow corridor that winds through the dungeon toward the Vault. The passage is invisible until the hidden door that leads to it is discovered. Once revealed, the passage appears as normal floor tiles and can be traversed freely.

The Vault

The Vault is surrounded on all sides by Impenetrable Walls that cannot be dug through. Its only entrance is a single Locked Door. Inside, valuable loot awaits — but entry does not go unnoticed.

The Guard Room

Adjacent to the Vault is a Guard Room, accessible only through its own Hidden Door. A powerful Guard patrols inside. The Guard is alert to any attempt to breach the Vault — if you try to open the Locked Door or step into the Secret Passage, the Guard will burst out and attack.

Achievements are earned across all your runs — they persist even after death. Each achievement unlocks a permanent +5% bonus to your MAX stats (HP, MP, STR, STA), making future runs stronger.

View all your achievements in-game by pressing C (Character Info) and switching to the Achievements tab.

Tower of Destiny automatically saves your progress as you play. You can safely close the browser at any time and resume later. Only one active adventure can exist per account at a time.