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Tower of Babel 1989 Screenshots

iPhone

About Tower of Babel 1989

An awesome 3D puzzle game, designed by Pete Cooke, some 30 or so years ago, remade for phone and tablet. The game play is based around controlling 3 spider robots, each with specific functions, walking them around levels filled with all sorts of other weird contraptions. The levels vary greatly in difficulty. Past the early few, there are many very challenging and satisfying ones.

The first 27 levels come free with the download; the remaining 90 can be bought as an in app purchase. A level editor is yet to be developed, but is planned.

What's New in the Latest Version 2.5

Last updated on Sep 17, 2023

Old Versions

No feature changes. Just rebuilt with latest Xcode.

Version History

2.5

Sep 17, 2023

No feature changes. Just rebuilt with latest Xcode.

2.4

Apr 25, 2021

Improved model animation: use higher precision vertex shaders so that, when zoomed in on, model surfaces don't pop in and out as they animate.

2.3

Nov 1, 2020

Fix incorrect robot interaction: prevent lucky timing from causing the Zapper Spider to shoot an attacking Fixed Zapper.

2.2

Jul 12, 2020

Fix buttons appearing under the notch on iPhone X and similar.
Fix non-working "Never" button on review nag screen.
Minor visual improvement to the Flag.

2.1

Jul 6, 2020

Various visual and UI improvements.

2.0

Jun 27, 2020

This is a complete rewrite, using a different game engine, mainly so as to support multiple platforms, but also providing some visual improvements due to the use of shaders.

1.8

Oct 13, 2016

Fix bug introduced in last update: squares left blocked after explosions

1.7

Oct 6, 2016

Fix a bug that caused a crash when running under iOS 10.

1.6

May 31, 2016

Bug fix: level 10D unwinable on 64bit devices

1.5

Apr 28, 2016

Reduce memory usage to avoid crashing when help overlays are displayed
Add acknowledgement screen for all levels complete
Add app icon for iOS 9
Minor bug fix
Add tester's names to credits page

1.4

Nov 7, 2015

Fix help-system's back and exit buttons in iOS 9
Add help overlay for unavailable spider robots

1.3

Oct 24, 2015

Add help page for the lift.
Minor formatting improvement in the help pages.
Add help overlay in lift tutorial.
Improve visibility of help overlays.

1.2

Aug 10, 2015

Fix bug that cause a single background always to be used.
Honour the no-cameras flag, used in some levels.

1.1

Aug 4, 2015

App store name changed