Red Tether

Red Tether is a top-down space action game built around indirect combat. You use tether-harpoons to link your ship to enemies or connect enemies to one another, then turn those links and the battlefield to your advantage against massive fleets.

Tether-based combat

Contract tethers to crash vessels together, rip weapons and attachments off enemies with well-placed harpoons, or swing around objects to outmaneuver the fleet. You can also ram opponents with your ship. Enemy attacks are clearly telegraphed and may be turned against other foes, while hazards such as flammable fuel spills, electrified hulls, coolant clouds and magnetic fields can be avoided or exploited.

Combat calls for quick tactical decisions: decide when to disarm or destroy ships, how to use them against one another and how to respond to the changing battle environment. You also learn to counter different fleet elements, including attack ships, support crafts and logistic units.

Fleets and challenges

Fight through more than 50 pre-made waves or take on randomly generated fleets in endless mode. The game includes more than 16 massive boss enemies, as well as challenge modes for the late game.

Ships and upgrades

Unlock more than 18 player ship variants, each with distinct playstyles, advantages and challenges. Improve your craft with more than 120 stackable ship and tether upgrades.

Star systems and lore

Explore more than 10 star system zones, each bringing new enemies. You can catch and collect 14 bio-mechanical fish to gain advanced tech, and find black boxes among the ship debris to piece together the game's lore. Red Tether offers a glimpse into a larger sci-fi universe whose story continues in Hyperspace Dogfights, Swirl W@tch and Hyperspace Deck Command.