Games/Tetherfall

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TETHERFALL

See how far you can swing.

Free · iPhone & Android · Landscape

Swinging on the tether beneath a peg in the night sky, distance 84 metres The same swing in the daylight look, over green hills Mid-flight between pegs at night, trailing an arc of afterimages Mid-flight in daylight, closing on the next peg The Tetherfall title screen with Start, How to Play, and Awards The awards screen listing distance milestones, nine of seventeen unlocked

What it is

A rope, a fire, and no ground left.

You are a tetherball cut loose from its pole, with a world burning behind you. Being untethered is what you want, but being tethered is the only thing that keeps you going. Go as far as that will take you.

Tap to let go and fly. Hold instead and you reel the rope in first, building momentum like a playground swing, then let go to fly farther. Latching onto the next peg is automatic. Flying close enough to latch is not. That is the entire control scheme.

How it plays

Simple to hold, hard to hold on to.

Three ways to fail

Miss a peg and you drop into the fire below. Release at the wrong angle and you fly back into the fire that follows you. Hang on to one peg too long and the rope frays, lets go, and you fall.

Nothing waits

Each peg holds twice, then crumbles. The gaps widen the farther you go. The ground you left is already gone.

Seventeen awards

Some for how far you got, some for how you got there, and a few you will only find by accident.

Day or night

Two complete looks, hand-tuned rather than filtered. Follow your device's appearance, or pin the one you like.

No accounts

No sign-in, no profile, nothing to feed. Open it and play.

Two minutes or twenty

A run is over the moment you fall, so it fits a coffee queue as well as an evening.

Details

The particulars.

Price

Free

Platforms

iPhone · Android

Languages

English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Orientation

Landscape

Rated

Everyone · 4+

Developer

Mars Studios LLC

Support

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