Tenet reminds me of the game Braid.
Braid is a platformer where you can reverse time on demand. At first it seems so easy. Just reverse time any time you make a mistake. But then you encounter items that don't get reversed in time. At first this seems like an annoyance, but you have to learn how to utilize this odd behavior to advance in the game. It's a clever mechanic that's difficult to fully grasp.
It turns out that having some things exempt from the normal flow of time gets really complicated.
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