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.