Combat Tested
Released Mar 2018
In Combat Tested, you must escape from the lab where you are being held after being experimented on. Luckily, these experiments have left you with special powers that will aid you in your escape.
66% positive · 104 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Combat Tested launched on March 23, 2018. Following launch, Buckethead Entertainment released a series of patches adding new features — including a new power (April 25, 2018) and additional audio and options improvements — before shipping the game's one and only major content update, V1.5, on June 23, 2018. That update added a new "Quality Assurance" endless horde mode and a new unlockable weapon. After that June 2018 update, developer communications went quiet for over seven years. The only post since then was a security hotfix on October 6, 2025, which patched a CVE vulnerability. That post closed with a note encouraging players to check out the studio's "other games," signaling that Combat Tested is no longer a focus of active development. There are no announced future updates, no unreleased DLC, and no roadmap of any kind. The game appears to have been completed with the V1.5 update in June 2018, with only routine maintenance applied since.
Evidence
Security hotfix released to patch a CVE vulnerability. Developer signs off by pointing players toward their other games and Discord, with no mention of future Combat Tested content.
V1.5 content update shipped, adding the Quality Assurance horde mode and a new unlockable weapon — the only major content release post-launch.
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Developer
Publisher
Buckethead Entertainment
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
At some point in your life you've tried to move objects around with your mind, right? Some of you may even still be keeping the dream alive hoping that some day you can do just that.
The wait is almost over, in Combat Tested you can fully realize that dream, and more. Playing the game you'll have full control over a range of special abilities designed to make you feel like a badass. You have telekinesis, allowing you to pick up and throw objects and enemies. There's stasis, a power that lets you freeze objects in mid-air for a short period of time. You can freely teleport around for fast movement. Then there's 3 super abilities, these can only be used when your Infusion stage is at 1 or higher. To increase your Infusion stage or I.F. stage for short, you drain I.F. containers that can be found throughout the lab.
If you like super powers, you probably like swords as well. So you'll get those too, two actually. These are no regular swords though, they have been infused with *something*, and as a result they can cut through anything. These swords are linked to your being, allowing you to materialize and dematerialize them at will. This means that you could throw them at an enemy to cut them in half from far away, and then materialize them back in your hands.
These tools will come in handy working your way out of the underground research lab you are being held in, but you must figure out how to utilize them to their maximum potential, or things may not end well for you.
The wait is almost over, in Combat Tested you can fully realize that dream, and more. Playing the game you'll have full control over a range of special abilities designed to make you feel like a badass. You have telekinesis, allowing you to pick up and throw objects and enemies. There's stasis, a power that lets you freeze objects in mid-air for a short period of time. You can freely teleport around for fast movement. Then there's 3 super abilities, these can only be used when your Infusion stage is at 1 or higher. To increase your Infusion stage or I.F. stage for short, you drain I.F. containers that can be found throughout the lab.
If you like super powers, you probably like swords as well. So you'll get those too, two actually. These are no regular swords though, they have been infused with *something*, and as a result they can cut through anything. These swords are linked to your being, allowing you to materialize and dematerialize them at will. This means that you could throw them at an enemy to cut them in half from far away, and then materialize them back in your hands.
These tools will come in handy working your way out of the underground research lab you are being held in, but you must figure out how to utilize them to their maximum potential, or things may not end well for you.
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Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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