Umihara Kawase

Umihara Kawase

Released Nov 2015

The original Rubbering Action game comes to Steam! Play as Umihara Kawase, an adventurer traveling through a world in search of ingredients. Hook the lure at the end of her stretchy rubber rope onto ceilings and walls to swing and leap through the stages. Quick reflexes and clever thinking are key!

92% positive · 246 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Umihara Kawase is a Steam port of the original SNES classic, released on November 2, 2015. It is one part of the Umihara Kawase Trilogy on Steam. Developer activity in the news feed covers the period from November 2015 through mid-2019, but none of it points to new content planned specifically for this game. The posts include a leaderboard bug fix shortly after launch (November 6, 2015), a VR update for the separate Sayonara Umihara Kawase title (June 2016), an announcement about a different Studio Saizensen game entirely (July 2016), a trilogy re-release notice (February 2016), and a May 2019 note about a new series entry (Umihara Kawase Fresh!) on Nintendo Switch — explicitly flagged as published by a different company with no involvement from the Steam publisher. None of these signals indicate any unshipped content for this specific game. The last developer communication of any kind was on May 8, 2019. This game launched as a complete port of a finished SNES title, received only maintenance-level post-launch support, and has had no new content announced. It is a finished product.
Evidence
Store description frames the game as a complete port of the original SNES title, part of a trilogy — no mention of planned updates or future content
description source content shipped
medium
Developer notes a new series entry (Umihara Kawase Fresh!) is coming to Nintendo Switch, published by a different company — developer explicitly states they cannot offer more information and have no involvement
news post · May 8, 2019 source ambiguous
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Media

Details

Publisher
KOMODO
Achievements
13
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

The original game that started it all, Umihara Kawase, is now on Steam!

Play as Umihara Kawase, a young adventurer armed with a fishing lure attached to a stretchy, rubber-like rope, in this one-of-a-kind puzzle platformer.

Hook onto walls and ceilings, then use the line's elasticity to swing, bounce, and launch yourself through each stage. There's rarely just one way forward - experiment with your surroundings, forge your own routes where no path exists, and master increasingly advanced movement techniques as you progress through the stages.

Along the way, reel in the strange fish that stand in your way and put your skills to the test across stages that reward creativity, precision, and practice.

Simple to pick up but incredibly deep to master, Umihara Kawase combines action and puzzle elements that challenge you to figure out a variety of possible routes. The rewarding process of mastering techniques through ingenuity and repeated practice offers surprising depth that reveals itself the more you play!

This is the essence of "Rubbering Action"!

Credits

Game Design & Lead Programmer:

Kiyoshi Sakai

Character Design:

Toshinobu Kondo

Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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