Orbital Tether

Orbital Tether is a minimalist arcade puzzle about one glowing particle and the gravity nodes it has to visit.

Slide into orbit around a node. Wait for your window. Fire yourself off tangentially and sail toward the next one.

Then watch what your jump leaves behind: a permanent laser tether stretched between the two nodes you just crossed. Those tethers are solid. Clip one and your particle disintegrates on the spot.

That is the entire game. Every successful jump builds a wall you will never be able to pass through again — so the order you visit the nodes decides whether you can reach all of them. Route yourself into a corner with three nodes left and nowhere to go? Start over.

94 hand-tuned clusters escalate from a three-node triangle to drifting, pulsing gravity wells and 11-node event horizons, with tighter radii, faster orbits, and nodes that won't hold still.

Controls

- Space / Click / Tap LAUNCH to break orbit and fly

- Double-tap the field to invert your orbit direction

- Scroll, pinch, or the on-screen console to zoom and pan the field

Short sessions. Zero tutorials. The rules take four seconds to learn and the rest of your life to get good.