Tether

🎮 About This Game

Tether is the first co-operative game in the TwozyGames lineup, and the first that cannot be won by out-playing the person next to you. Two orbs — one cyan, one pink — are joined by a rope with a fixed maximum length, and a level only ends when both of them are standing on their pads at the same moment. That single rule turns every move into a negotiation. Run for your own pad and you drag your partner off theirs. The rope is not scenery: it is the thing you solve puzzles with. Scattered around each level are nodes that light only when the rope itself sweeps across them, never when an orb touches them, so progress depends on where the line between you goes rather than where either of you goes. Six levels build from a quiet first walk to a board with hazards on both sides of the route.

🎯 How to Play

Each player thrusts their own orb — P1 on WASD, P2 on the arrow keys — and there is no brake; you steer against your own momentum and against the rope. Holding your anchor key (Space for P1, / for P2) pins your orb in place. You cannot move while anchored, which is exactly the point: you have become a fixed pivot, and your partner can now swing around you on a rope of known length. That is how you light nodes. Anchor one orb, sweep the other in an arc, and the rope passes over everything on that radius. Nodes stay lit once lit, and the pads stay inert until every node on the board is lit, so there is no rushing to the exit early. Hazards kill an orb on contact and restart the level, but the rope passes over them freely — a route your orbs cannot take is often one the line can. Playing solo, you drive one orb at a time; Space anchors the orb you are holding and Shift hands the controls to the other one.

💡 Tips & Strategy

• ▸Anchor first, then sweep. A node sitting at half your rope length is far easier to catch than one out at the very end, where a small wobble swings the line right past it.
• ▸Nodes ignore your orbs completely. If you are parked on top of one and nothing is happening, that is the rule working — back off and put the middle of the rope over it instead.
• ▸The anchored orb is immovable, so use it as a wall. Pinning one orb on the safe side of a hazard lets the other lean out further than it could ever manage alone.
• ▸When you both drift, you drift together. A taut rope transfers a pull, so one player can ferry the pair across open space while the other simply steers.
• ▸Park before you travel. Getting one orb onto its pad and anchoring it there turns the last stretch into a single-orb problem instead of a two-body one.
• ▸In solo, anchor the orb you are about to leave. Switching away from a free orb means it will be dragged around by everything you do next.
• ▸Hazards only bite the orbs. Route the line straight over the danger and walk your orbs around the outside — that is usually the intended solution, not a trick.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions