TENET

TENET

ALTER-BOY · August 27, 2018 · Action, Free to Play, Indie, Gore, Violent

TENET is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Positive73% · 75
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TENET price

TENET is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About TENET

TENET is a fast-paced shooter where you are trapped underworld in a nightmarish arena, and the only key to survival is to stay within the light. Survive, collect, and upgrade! With help from the underworld seer, you can exchange your earnings for powerful upgrades for increased chances of survival, along with cosmetics to fully customize your character, killing your foes in style.

TENET takes inspiration from several classics to bring about a fusion of old meets new. Compete for high scores and place among the leader boards. Your skills will be put to the test as you blast, punch, and stomp your way through this gore infused gauntlet as you tear your foes limb from limb.

In TENET your goal is to survive waves of enemies increasing over time in difficulty. Every series of waves end with a Boss Encounter, surviving the encounter enables you to meet the "Underworld Seer" to summon the "Pillar of Vis" which grants access to a powerful weapon upgrade or exchange to convert the current sessions collected "Runes" into "Purified Tokens" for purchasing higher quality upgrades and cosmetics in the "Player Profile".

Please note that the game is currently in Early Access which means this is not the final state of the game. Please read the Early Access notes above for more information about our current and future plans.

TENET — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Partial 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 19, 2024
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7 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 2, 2024
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3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 4, 2024
wheres neil and the protagonist
2 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 10, 2025
underrated as fck
Not recommended Nov 8, 2025
"TENET" is a poorly made wave survival shooter where the developer gleefully rips off the trademark for the Christopher Nolan feature film, Tenet (copyright Warner Bros Pictures). So this is an experimental game and the experiment is to find out just how hard Warner Bros legal department can hit. Trademark infringement aside (and yeah even the game title rips off the trade dress from the film marketing), this has nothing to do with the plot of the film, it's a collection of almost certainly asset flipped Unity assets dumped onto a lazy third person shooter game blueprint. The result is an aimless, valueless wave survival shooter with a hideous, hamfisted filter applied, a game that isn't complete and almost certainly never will be as the developer unethically failed to put this into EA where it belongs, so gamers don't have adequate warning about just how unfinished this valueless junk is. 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 spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that…
Recommended Jul 25, 2025
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