Tape To Tape

About

You manage a struggling hockey team in a brutal winter world where every loss resets your progress but teaches new strategies. Tape To Tape mixes roguelite progression with sports management as you hire quirky athletes, forge gear with a mysterious blacksmith, and pick high-risk paths during randomized matchups. Each run forces tough choices: play it safe or gamble on wild upgrades. Win or lose, you return to your island base to tweak lineups and gear for another shot at the league. Developer Excellent Rectangle balances chaotic decision-making with hockey’s physicality, letting you brute-force victories or craft clever team synergies. The Blademaster’s custom gear adds a layer of strategy beyond typical sports games, while permadeath keeps runs tense. Released in May 2023, it leans into local multiplayer for competitive couch sessions. With 20+ player archetypes and deep upgrade trees, the game rewards experimentation even when failure feels inevitable.

Storyline

Prepare to journey on a continent obsessed with one sport: hockey, where the inhabitants thrive in this harsh winter land and idolize their hockey heroes. Each hockey team lives on an island surrounding the main continent and ressources produced on the mainland are allocated to the most dominant of these teams. You have inherited an abandoned island and the captainship of the worst team in the whole league. Amongst the island's rubbles, you find an old workshop inhabited by an odd character called 'The Blademaster'. This strange character gives your team the edge they desperately need by forging unique artefacts and progressively improving your team. Because of the ever-shifting nature of the continent, no two journeys will ever be the same. Each new adventure will have its own randomly generated path where you will have to choose between different teams to play against and unique rewards to choose from. Will you be cautious or choose the risky path...be careful since defeat will send you back to your island. Losing is only the beginning however. While on your island, set-up your team and improve with the Blademaster while getting ready for the next epic journey.