Kinese

Kinese

Six Sided Square · March 16, 2018 · Indie, Casual, Simulation, VR, Free to Play

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Positive84% · 19 📈 Making a comeback 92%
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About Kinese

Kinese is a chill, meditative experience made specifically for VR. There's no score, no enemies to kill and no overt goal. Try to discover how you can influence the world around you, what rules surround that influence and what the ultimate limits of those rules are.

Kinese explores concepts of wonder, scale and awe, and how these can be conveyed through the medium of Virtual Reality.

Kinese — game info

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

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Kinese is a free VR application that offers a minimalist, meditative experience where players manipulate objects by moving their controllers, with simple mechanics that work smoothly on various VR headsets. Players are divided on its merit: some appreciate it as a relaxing, easy-to-access VR experience with a calm soundtrack, while others argue it lacks meaningful gameplay depth and interactive substance to qualify as an actual game.

Recommended Jul 26, 2020
Kinese is a free VR experience. It worked on my HTC Vive and Index system, sounded ok, played ok, looked ok. Just a Standing or Sitting experience. Hold your right hand trigger while moving your right hand controller some direction moves the small green cube. If the green cube hits any other shapes in the room, they start moving with the green cube. Has a single music track of meditative type music. Has 6 Steam achievements. Try it, if you want easy VR experience.
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Recommended Oct 26, 2025
Игра "Kinese" — это увлекательная головоломка с уникальной механикой управления телом через сенсорный ввод. Визуальная стилистика минималистична, но атмосфера напряженная. Основная задача — преодолеть препятствия, используя точные движения, что требует концентрации. Плюсы: оригинальная идея, плавная графика, адаптация под разные устройства. Минусы: ограниченное количество уровней, сложность для новичков. Подойдет тем, кто любит логические задачи и эксперименты с контролем. Рекомендую для коротких, но интенсивных сессий.
Recommended Oct 24, 2025
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Recommended Jul 27, 2025
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Not recommended May 5, 2025
Kinese is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this "art experience". Instead of being a game, Kinese is a software application that presents a poorly made art exhibition. presents a few textureless pale yellow blocks that you can move around a bit by waving your arms in VR. That's it. Ugh. We get this non-game shovelware on Steam whenever your usual Starbucks barista/McDonalds frycook art school dropout finally gets a restraining order from the local art galleries so turns to Steam Direct to try get their art published somewhere so they can finally dream of moving out of their parents basement. It's true that games can be art... art is where the pinnacles of craftsmanship and quality meet vision and narrative to create an experience far greater than the sum of the parts. This isn't a game at all, and the craftsmanship and narrative are terrible. This isn't making art better, it's just making gaming worse. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block a…
Recommended Jan 14, 2020
---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Gnome. ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☑ Gnome. ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☑ Gnome. ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Gnome. ☐ Adults ☐ Human ☐ Lizards ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☑ Gnome. ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Gnome. ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Gnome. ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☑ Gnome. ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Gnome. ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☑ Gnome. ☐ 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 ☑ Gnome. ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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