Sinew

Sinew

Odd Critter Games · April 3, 2025 · Adventure, Casual, Platformer, Puzzle, 2D Platformer

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Mixed70% · 23
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Sinew price

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About Sinew

✦ AI summary

Sinew is a biomechanical aquatic survival game where you navigate treacherous depths filled with deadly creatures while solving environmental puzzles and using your boost ability to outmaneuver enemies. Navigate a dark, physics-driven world that demands both cunning puzzle-solving and quick reflexes to stay alive.

Venture into the mysterious, horrid depths of a cold and threatening abyss in this short, dark adventure game. Players assume control of a small, aquatic creature as they must avoid dangers and solve environmental puzzles.

Sinew — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Jul 8, 2025
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6 found this helpful
Not recommended May 26, 2026
I tried my best to enjoy this game, as it looked super cool, and i love biomechanical designs, but sadly the game had too many glitches to be enjoyable. Often times the flashing red effects would not span the whole screen, and the window would change size. Certain Sprites had a rectangle surrounding them, breaking immersion, and I quickly was trapped in an empty void with only background screen effects. Many attack effects bugged, and it appeared certain elements were different resolutions, making for an unappealing look. Its a wonderful context but its bugs hold it back from being a game I would recommend to anyone.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 17, 2025
Game recomended to be played by a controller, but the movement key didn't worked with my XBOX controller, only with mouse and keyboard. Kind of frustrating game. Better to watch the ending on Youtube.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended May 20, 2025
This game seems like it could be incredibly fun, but unfortunately I don't want to spend time in a game that resets audio settings every time you hit play AND doesn't allow you to change settings WHILE playing, only from the main menu. I would hit Apply several times after I realised the first one didn't work, but that didn't fix the issue and kept resetting to max volume every time I got back into the game. I did have fun with the little bit I played though.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 2, 2026
A game that seems nice, until you realize that every time you die you go back to the beginning. I played the game and saw the save sign appear 3+ times! Then I died by accident, it happens. Then I find out that the save does nothing. And you have to start from the beginning! (And it also happened another time, not a random bug) In addition, Steam said that it is better to use a controller, so I took my DualSense controller and tried to start playing, and then I find out that even though I managed to press the button that was marked as A (I used X) I find that it is the only thing that works. And everything is marked by keyboard and mouse keys. Nice game, but I do not recommend it. There are much better games also for free.
Recommended Jun 10, 2025
The game itself isn't bad, but it's too trial and error, when you lose it doesn't save your recent progress and you have to start over. it wouldn't be a problem in itself but since the game is slow it's a bit tiring. I stopped playing after 20 minutes, but I'm leaving the positive vote just for encouragement

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