Tachyonest: Rewrite

Tachyonest: Rewrite

aerealis · July 31, 2023 · Third-Person Shooter, Action, PvE, Shooter, Space Sim

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Tachyonest: Rewrite price

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About Tachyonest: Rewrite

✦ AI summary

Tachyonest: Rewrite is a space third-person shooter where you blast through enemies at breakneck speed while constantly upgrading your firepower by looting weapons from fallen foes. It fuses roguelike progression with fast-paced combat to create a high-octane experience that blends FTL's strategic depth with Quake's relentless action.

Tachyonest is a space third-person shooter about going fast and developing your arsenal by stealing weapons from your dead enemies. Imagine if FTL: Faster Than Light was forcibly mashed with Quake, and that's Tachyonest.You are the SS. Total Unit, designed to be the rogue Hivemind's perfect soldier. Unfortunately, you have gone rogue against the rogue AI for unknown reason, and have been deactivated and contained in a small cell.This could never be enough to contain you.

Tachyonest: Rewrite — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Tachyonest: Rewrite has a dedicated player base praising its unique mechanics, particularly the weapon absorption and dashing systems, combined with a challenging movement-focused gameplay style that sits between bullet hell and boomer shooter conventions. However, the game suffers from janky controls and design issues that frustrate some players, and it appears to be abandoned by developers with no further updates planned.

Recommended Jul 31, 2025
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Not recommended Mar 4, 2024
I do not recommend
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 1, 2026
very fun game! tried with some friends and really enjoyed it, campaign and the unreleased game mode were cool. i really enjoyed the ost and gameplay mechanics. the mechanics are really fun, especially the dashing and weapon absorption. anyways i really liked the game, especially the aerealian game design level, would recommend!!!
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Recommended Jul 21, 2026
I found this game from the creator on tiktok, i dont play this style of games but it was still fun and unique i like how you can consume weapons to heal, combine weapons to become stronger and there is a wide choice of weapons
Recommended Jul 5, 2026
Fun game with super unique mechanics and really fun difficult movement. Not exactly a boomer shooter or a bullet hell but somewhere in between. Some weird stuff that doesn’t always work the best, but still fun and would recommend. Please god make a new soundtrack. The oboe one on 0-4 pissed me off.
Not recommended Sep 21, 2025
"Tachyonest: Rewrite" is another amateur train wreck here on Steam Direct... I mean, at least it's not a mobile app scam or an asset flip, that's something, but genuine intentions alone aren't enough to provide a quality gaming experience. What do you do in the game? First person shooting... but imagine first person shooting done so badly, so jankily, so awkwardly, so incompetently that if John Carmack saw this he would have immediately nuked his Wolfenstein 3D codebase and never kicked off the FPS genre. Seriously, that's how bad this game is. The developers abandoned this 1 year and 4 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. Since the controls can't be customized, this makes the game inaccessible for a wide range of gamers, including those who are left-handed, have physical impairments, or use international keyboard layouts. Developers have a responsibility to ensure gamers can customise their experience with the game. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer…

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