Tethered
Skip · Strategy · 2017
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$18.99Skip
On its price record
$9.63Fair
- Length
- 7.6h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 211 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.63 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 830 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Thirteen unique islands await your guiding hand in this beautiful and engrossing real-time strategy game, unlike anything you have experienced before!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD R9 290 equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 119 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Prehistoric Kingdom ($29.99, scores 52) and Becastled ($19.99, scores 48) both outscore it.
More about Tethered
Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
This was a great game when it was released, half a decade ago, when VR was new & exciting. But that time has long since passed, and the devs have abandoned this game. So unfortunately, not worth buying today...
1 more review, not recommended
It's just too shallow, and has too much busywork. It's cute. The "floating island" look, and the peeps working for you, are both nice visually. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of gameplay. Mostly what you do is send peeps around collecting resources, and not much else. At night, hostile slugs show up which you have to kill, but otherwise it's almost entirely resource gathering. It doesn't help that your peeps don't...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tethered scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/431120/tetheredReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.