The Tension

The Tension is a single-player stealth puzzle horror game. You control a kidnapped child from a top-down camera view and try to escape from an alien mothership, searching for your ship and solving puzzles along the way.

Levels and puzzles

Each level contains puzzles, and some also have enemies you must avoid. The puzzles vary between levels, with their difficulty adjusted to suit each one. You must solve every puzzle in a level to proceed. Once you complete a level, you can move on or replay it to try for a higher score, which is based on the time you spend there. The timer stops when the game is paused.

Story and progression

The game has multiple unlockable levels in a story-based single-player mode. You play as a child held aboard an alien mothership and work toward escaping it.