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by Sleeper Games

2022
99% positive
79
$6.49
Steam

About This Game

Red Tether features explosive top-down space action with a unique "indirect combat" system.

You will face massive space fleets and fierce oppositions, while being armed with nothing but tether-harpoons and your wits.

  • Fight tether-based space battles that revolves entirely around linking yourself with opponents or them with each other.

  • Crash vessels into another using contracting tethers.

  • Rip off enemy weapons and attachments with well placed harpoons.

  • Outmaneuver the fleet by graple-swinging around objects.

  • Use your ship as a battering ram by slamming yourself into the opposition.

  • Experience fresh "combat-puzzle" gameplay that requires split-second tactical decisions amid fast paced action.

  • Carefully consider how to use ships against another, when to disarm and when to destroy and how to utilize the changing battle environment.

  • Learn to counter various fleet elements, including attack ships, support crafts and logistic units.

  • Fight through 50+ pre-made waves, or face randomly generated fleets in endless mode.

  • Clash with 16+ massive boss enemies and turn them into screen-filling explosions.

  • Dodge clearly telegraphed enemy attacks and potentially turn them against your opponents.

  • Avoid or exploit various hazards like flammable fuel spills, electrified hulls, coolant clouds and magnetic fields.

  • Unlock 18+ player ship variants that offer distinct playstyles, advantages and challenges.

  • Improve your craft with 120+ stackable ship and tether upgrades.

  • Catch and collect 14 bio-mechanical fish to gain advanced tech.

  • Discover 10+ star system zones and the new enemies they throw at you.

  • Piece together the game's lore by finding black boxes among all the ship-debris.

  • Get a tiny glimpse at a complex sci-fi universe. The story continues in Hyperspace Dogfights, Swirl W@tch and Hyperspace Deck Command.

  • Enable various challenge modes for the lategame.

  • Basic controller support and assist options.

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User Reviews

Positive78
Negative1
Overall99% positive

Game Details

Release Date: 1/18/2022
Developer: Sleeper Games
Publisher: Sleeper Games
Price: $6.49

Platform Support

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