Games like ---Red---Tether-->
If ---Red---Tether--> is your kind of game, the closest matches are RANGER COMMANDO, ShootyCraft and The Stars Are Not Ready — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About ---Red---Tether-->: ---Red---Tether--> is an action-packed “combat-puzzle” roguelite. You will tear apart massive space fleets, using nothing but your advanced tether harpoons. Pull and crash ships into another, rip their components off, then grapple-swing your way out of danger.
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Steam players who put hours into ---Red---Tether--> also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
RANGER COMMANDO
WHY THIS
Top pick for ---Red---Tether--> fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Nostalgic '80s-inspired isometric tactical shooter. Explore randomly generated missions, assassinate officers, free hostages, blow stuff up. No handholding, but easy to pick up!
ShootyCraft
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ---Red---Tether--> fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Massive online space battles with building and crafting. Up to 100 players in an arena. Solo and team game modes.
The Stars Are Not Ready
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ---Red---Tether--> fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
A neon arcade roguelite with no gun. Momentum is the only weapon: surf the dark at full speed and ram everything to wreckage. Ten shifting zones, anomalies you can seal or exploit, mutations that evolve, guardians that shatter. The stars are not ready. Go anyway.
StarFear
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ---Red---Tether--> fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Fly. Die. Improve. Repeat. StarFear is a brutal space extraction roguelite where loss is learning, skill is the answer, and nothing feels better than getting out alive, alone or with your friends.
Anima Reaver
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ---Red---Tether--> fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
A 3D Sci-Fi space shooter game where you fight against big flagships and bases to unlock the secrets of the world.
Deadship Protocol
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ---Red---Tether--> fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Bullet heaven auto-shooter with ONLINE AND COUCH CO-OP for 1-4 players. Fight hordes of energy-feeding aliens, recover eight Protocol Cores, and choose powerful upgrades. Leave the reactor undefended, then fight your way back before the ship runs out of power.
Swirl W@tch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ---Red---Tether-->.
Ranked #7 for ---Red---Tether--> fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Swirl W@tch is a tense stealth-action roguelite that takes place on an over-exploited gas giant. Infiltrate industrial installations, evade or eliminate guard ships, commit corporate sabotage and grow the movement to unlock new gear. Can your actions free this otherworldly world?
Starcore Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ---Red---Tether--> fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Starcore Survivor is a top-down arena auto-shooter roguelite. Move, dodge, collect materials, and shape each run through 20 waves of combat, upgrade choices, between-wave shops, weapon fusion, evolution recipes, relics, bosses, and escalating Danger levels.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ---Red---Tether--> at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under ---Red---Tether--> on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under ---Red---Tether--> on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under ---Red---Tether--> on Steam right now. Shares Action with ---Red---Tether-->.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under ---Red---Tether--> on Steam right now. Shares Action with ---Red---Tether-->.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under ---Red---Tether--> on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under ---Red---Tether--> on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under ---Red---Tether--> on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under ---Red---Tether--> on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from Sleeper Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Sleeper Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hyperspace Dogfights
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ---Red---Tether-->.
Another title from Sleeper Games, the studio behind ---Red---Tether-->. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Hyperspace Dogfights is a juicy jet-combat roguelite in which you blast, dodge and slice your way through masses of technologically inferior baddies. Your jet evolves differently on each run and becomes stronger and weirder by gathering some of the 300+ available items.
Swirl W@tch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ---Red---Tether-->.
Another title from Sleeper Games, the studio behind ---Red---Tether-->. Shares Action and Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Swirl W@tch is a tense stealth-action roguelite that takes place on an over-exploited gas giant. Infiltrate industrial installations, evade or eliminate guard ships, commit corporate sabotage and grow the movement to unlock new gear. Can your actions free this otherworldly world?
Hyperspace Deck Command
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an atmospheric mood with ---Red---Tether-->.
Another title from Sleeper Games, the studio behind ---Red---Tether-->. Shares Indie with ---Red---Tether-->.
Hyperspace Deck Command is a complex deck building roguelite. Command a massive space fleet that operates on individual turn timers, combine a wide variety of cards into powerful decks and master the dual-use status effects to defeat the hegemonising swarm.
Frequently asked about ---Red---Tether-->
- Does ---Red---Tether--> run on Steam Deck?
- ---Red---Tether--> is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does ---Red---Tether--> cost?
- ---Red---Tether--> is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ---Red---Tether-->?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ---Red---Tether--> are RANGER COMMANDO, ShootyCraft, The Stars Are Not Ready.
- Who developed ---Red---Tether-->?
- ---Red---Tether--> was developed by Sleeper Games.
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