Game and site by David Newton, 2007-2015


You can now get the full game through Desura!
Desura Digital Distribution
Buy Full Version Download Free Version
  • $5 through Fastspring secure ordering
  • Transfer your save over from the free edition and keep playing
  • Open the full Music Castle and recover the eight instruments
  • Enter all 33 levels and 14 bosses
  • Which make up nearly 300 individual challenges
  • More gameplay than time left in your natural lifespan*
  • Synthesize items to gather a library of special abilities
  • Complete your scorecard and look down on all the people who downloaded the version over on the right there
  • Get an intangible spark of inner satisfaction!
(* If you're a medium-sized insect)
  • Explore the lower floors and levels of the Music Castle
  • Recover one of the eight Music Crystals
  • Complete about 15% of the game
  • Which is still a decent amount, really
  • Pick up enemy drops and try out the synthesizer
  • Track your progress on the castle's complimentary Internet and show off your scorecard and achievements online
  • Comes with a free slight feeling of incompleteness until you get that version over on the left
Buy Full Version
Desura Digital Distribution
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Playing on Windows
Crystal Towers 2 comes as a ZIP without an installer. Just extract the contents (including the data and music folders) to anywhere on your hard drive and run the EXE file. Saves will be stored in your Application Data or AppData folder, under "Crystal Towers 2 SE".
Playing on Linux
The game should work under WINE. If you get a message about StringReplace.mfx, try downloading msvcp60.dll.
Playing on a Mac
Crystal Towers 2 has been confirmed to work under Parallels!
Continuing saves from the free version
If you buy the full game, you'll be able to load your save from the free edition and continue with it - the two versions will look for save files in the same place. Once you've loaded your save using the full game, you won't be able to go back to it in the free version.
Is there a Crystal Towers 1?
Yes, but I made it in 2004 and it's rubbish. See for yourself!