A Difficult Game About
Climbing

A Difficult Game About Climbing (2024) is a traversal game about a bald man who can only use his hands to climb. You control each hand individually, carefully grabbing holds to pull yourself higher. It stands out for its physicality, enabling you to push, pull, and climb to the top.

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You play a nameless man set on scaling the towering cliffside. At your own pace, you make your way up the mountain and are steadily rewarded by temporary safe zones enabling you to relax. You control each hand individually requiring coordination to scale higher. You soon face tough terrain requiring you to identify which holds are most effective and efficient for your hands. It's a challenge that combines physics and timing. Pressure mounts as failure looms because if you fall you have to restart from the base of the cliff.

To progress you traverse the varying rockfaces, survive the unique obstacles, and manage your stamina as you ascend higher. The challenge increases as you climb further, from rotating walls to precarious holds - like clothes on a drying line. In this way, each section feels like a puzzle, with each new rockface a challenge to solve. However unlike other games if you fall you have to restart everything making progression rewarding while very stressful.

The result is a game that balances an extreme challenge with the reward of mastering its physics. It can be difficult, but you learn to trust your instincts and the character's abilities to summit even the most unforgiving climb.

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Our examiner, Will Oster, first checked A Difficult Game About Climbing 4 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 3 weeks ago.