About

Towergirls is an online forum game in which the player is given the choice to save a princess. The game has gained a following, due in part to the myriad of available princesses and the ease of creating an original princess type.

Origin

Towergirls was partially inspired by a comic exploitable featuring a knight bursting into a tower in the first panel followed by a blank panel allowing others to fill in what comes next. In a 2014 thread on 4chan's /v/ (Video Games) board, which featured this exploitable in its opening post, an anonymous user asked other users which of four princesses they would save: a kobold princess, an insect princess, a human princess, or a skeleton princess. This question was later illustrated. Later versions of the image would expand on the number of princesses available.^[1]

Gameplay

In Towergirls, the player takes on the role of a knight, who much save a princess of his choice. Each princess comes with a number of advantages and disadvantages, as well as rankings for Love, Lust, Wealth, and Power. Princesses typically come with some other form of benefit in the form of dowries, which give miscellaneous boosts, or Idols and Companions. "Lewd" versions of the game also exist, which feature the princesses' different fetishes and items which give sexual advantages. The player is allowed to take as many princesses as he wants, but choosing more princesses dilutes their advantages. The game has progressed through several generations, which differ in story, choices, and mechanics.^[2]

Spread

Towergirls is very popular for its large number of available princesses, which are also easily able to be expanded on. /tg/'s wiki 1d4chan holds a large ammount of information on the game. A booru for fan art was created in February of 2015.^[3] An imageboard for the game was created on 8chan in March of the same year.^[4] The game also has a notable following on Tumblr.

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