
TetherGeist is a challenging precision platformer that rewards practice and perseverance. Guide Mae and her axolotl spirit, Bao, on a wholesome coming-of-age pilgrimage while mastering Astral Projection, a tether that links Mae to her spirit and is the source of her strength.
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Guide Mae on a coming-of-age pilgrimage in this heartfelt precision platformer, designed for both newcomers and those in search of a challenge.
For hundreds of years, the Mountain Shaman have used their powers of Astral Projection to travel vast distances. But Mae is different – her spirit travel is limited by a tether. When the time comes for a coming of age pilgrimage, Mae must forgo spirit flight and take the journey the long way.
Join Mae on her challenging journey, using tough but satisfying platforming to leap and bound towards her goal. Master seven different Azae that change how your spirit interacts with the environment. Scour the world for secrets, treasures and hidden paths – your curiosity will be rewarded!
Features:
Precision and depth: Progressively unlock seven different spirit abilities
Seek and find: Discover hidden secrets, alternate paths and more
Pure precision platforming: No combat, powerups or skill trees
A speedrunner’s dream: Push your skills to the limit with timed runs!
Tough but forgiving: Frequent checkpoints help you learn from your mistakes
Full of heart: Discover a story about community, difference and growing up

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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $16.99 | 351reviews | 98% | — | $147.8K |
| $16.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
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Reviews
Tethergeist is an awesome platformer. As a person coming from things like kaizo mario, it is so much fun and I really enjoyed both the different levels, aswell as the "powers" the game gives to you. NPC Dialogue is mostly optional, yet very fun to read through and gives lots of small moments that make you laugh. On that topic: the german translation is phenomenal! Overall, I loved the game and can only highly recommend this to anybody, please support this game and these devs!
The third act really is something else. One of the best executed crashouts I've seen in a game, the highlight being the very creative use of (what I believe was) adaptative music, which made the impact of the moment hit that much harder, and delighted me lots. The chase sequences are really good, and there's plenty of satisfying platforming challenges, taking full advantage of the repertoire of mechanics the game had acquired up to that point. I can't lie though, the majority of the game does not live up to it's best moments; when Tether Geist is at its worst, it can be a slog to get through. But while I think the team still lacks some of the finesse required to make a platforming masterpiece like Celeste, there's definitely potential here. The artwork of some areas doesn't have the depth, color, and readability that I would describe as great, but the character design almost always reached that standard. The game's design has some rough edges (f*ck them tether pipes, or whatever they're called, I hate them), but it kept surprising me as I played along. The dialog had quite a lot of uninspired and insipid lines, yet the story felt incredibly personal, and the third act was both heartbreaking and satisfying. So yeah, I think Tether Geist is worth playing. And to the developers, thank you, and please keep making awesome games!
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Languages: English, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America
Hours played at review time, across 82 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Very pleasant (and pretty) Celeste-like, with a number of interesting gameplay twists of its own. Definitely worth a shot if you're into the genre.
really great game with super unique mechanics, as someone who's favorite genre is platformers the gameplay is so satisfying. if you like precision platformers then this serves as a great addition to your steam library!
Celeste's quirky cousin
I played this game for a bit and I really enjoy it. For me it's very difficult, I'm not really that great at these kind of games. I have a variety of computers through out the house and I do have this game installed on all of them because I find it one of those games that I come back too and like to play in short waves. It is one of my favorite indie games this year, and one I will be playing over the year as I enjoy the platforming. Overall for the teams first release I think they did an amazing job. I did recommend it to my co workers, family, and friends. Looking forward to future games from the team.
Very nice game! You really get that fix of Celeste with this :)
let me just say I LOVE THIS GAME. its fairly new and i got it on the steam 2026 summer sale and its become a favorite of mine. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10 Celeste is one of my favorite games ever and this game has many similarities with celeste such as: female protagonist, precision platforming, pixel graphics and etc. if you are fan of celeste you will love this game. I recommend this to anyone who loves pixel graphics and platformers.
Celeste taught us that trans people can dash in midair, and Tethergeist teaches us that disabled people can teleport short distances.
I have watched the developer making and talking this game since early on and was very excited for it's release. It is a shame to see that this didn't launch to greater success, especially now that I am nearly at the end of the game. The platforming is so satisfying and depth of mechanics really surprised me. The progression is so well paced. Each time you become a master of certain mechanics, the game introduces something new or slightly different. Well recommended for anyone who is a fan of pixel platformers
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