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Umihara Kawase cover art

Umihara Kawase

Studio Saizensen · KOMODO · 2015-11-02

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 02, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 23, 1994 (Super Famicom)

Umihara Kawase is a girl who uses a fishing hook as a grappling hook. You’ll need quick reflexes to swing your way through the branching surreal environments. Use your brains to figure out the best way through. They say fish is brain food—you’re going to need it!

2
playing now
93%
positive of 245 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
95/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Umihara Kawase is a 1994 platformer developed and published by Japanese company TNN. It is the inaugural game in the Umihara Kawase series. It was first released in 1994 for the Super Famicom.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 56% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.1k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 245 total reviews — how this is computed.

Players online

202026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.492015-11-022021-02-152015-11-02 — best price $8.992015-11-25 — best price $7.992015-12-22 — best price $7.992016-02-05 — best price $6.492016-04-18 — best price $6.992016-04-28 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $3.992016-10-20 — best price $3.992016-11-24 — best price $2.992016-12-22 — best price $3.992017-03-27 — best price $3.992017-06-23 — best price $2.992017-11-07 — best price $2.992017-11-22 — best price $2.992017-12-21 — best price $4.492018-02-05 — best price $4.492018-04-30 — best price $4.492018-06-21 — best price $4.992018-10-02 — best price $4.992018-10-30 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $4.992019-04-30 — best price $4.992019-06-26 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $4.992019-12-12 — best price $4.992019-12-19 — best price $4.992020-01-23 — best price $2.992020-04-30 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $2.992020-08-20 — best price $2.992020-09-24 — best price $2.992020-11-25 — best price $2.992020-12-22 — best price $2.492021-02-11 — best price $2.492021-02-15 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Player tags

AnimeIndieRetroActionClassicPhysicsDifficultPlatformerCult ClassicSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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