Tether vs Uto

You run a rolling landscape with a kite on a line above you. Tap to jump. Hold, and the kite catches you and carries you — long, floaty, quiet. That is the whole game, and everything else grows out of it. THE ONE TRICK Let the line go high enough and the kite swings a full revolution overhead. Catch it, and the landing you make next decides what it was worth. It costs no second button. You already release the line — this makes releasing it high mean something. SPEED IS THE RESOURCE Downhill builds it, uphill bleeds it. A landing that matches the slope you touch down on pays you; one that fights it costs you. Rocks are the only thing that ends a run. TWELVE SKIES, ON A CLOCK First light, Morning air, Blue noon, Golden hour, Last light, Violet hour, Deep night, Starlight, Storm light, White air, First snow, Ember sky. The hour turns over every forty-two seconds and the whole world changes colour with it. Reach one you have never flown under and the game names it, once. Weather crosses it on its own clock — rain, storm, fog and snow. FIFTY LEVELS Three goals live at all times. Clear all three and you level up. A hundred and fifty goals deep, and the ladder ends with a card rather than counting forever. NINE FIGURES A Kitesmith, a Courier, a Ranger, an Aeronaut, a Monk, a Stormwright, a Fox, a Lantern-keeper and a Vagabond. Six are earned on the ladder, two are bought with coins the game gave you, one comes with the single purchase. They change what you look like and nothing about how you fly. That is deliberate. MADE FROM SCRATCH No bitmaps, no sprite sheets, no AI-generated assets, no artist. Every sprite is procedural vector art, the soundtrack is offline synthesis, and the landscape is four sine waves sampled per frame. The whole world regenerates from source in seconds. Portrait. One thumb. Plays offline. Free, with one purchase that removes every interruption permanently — and keeps the offers you choose to take.

One small sail. One letter to deliver. Uto: Wind Post is a single-player flight game designed for iPhone in landscape. Hold to climb and release to glide down. Adjust your height, pass through the bright openings and carry the mail to the next post. SIX ROUTES TO LEARN Travel from Dawn Meadow to Aurora Voyage. Moving seals, breathing gates, branching paths and shifting currents add new challenges as you go. Finish a route to unlock the next. DELIVER FIRST. FLY BETTER NEXT. Collect seals, build combos and connect three lights into wind lines. Save your energy for a well-timed dash. Chase precise crossings, damage-free deliveries, three stars and your own best score. THREE STAGES. YOUR CALL. Bank your score at each expedition post. Repair a shield and insure part of your new points, or take express mail for full energy and a bonus if you finish the next stage unharmed. You can also finish your shift and keep what you have earned. ENDLESS POST Gates keep coming and the wind keeps getting faster, with a new sky after every supply post. See how far you can carry the mail and beat your best distance. JUST YOU AND THE WIND The first two routes and the first 2 km of Endless Post are free to play. A single one-time purchase unlocks the other four routes, the three-stage expedition and unlimited Endless Post for good, with no ads, subscriptions or other purchases. Play offline without an account, with an original soundtrack. Sound, music and haptics can be switched off independently. Progress stays on your device; there is no cross-device cloud sync. Available in English, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese for Taiwan and Hong Kong. Requires iOS 17 or later.