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2024PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable87 % positive9.75 €

You haul a clumsy figure up a punishing mountain where one slip can send you tumbling back down. The tricky physics-based controls deliver frustration and triumph, with a dry sense of humor along the way.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Lots of humour
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

The closest matches for A Difficult Game About Climbing are N, Umihara Kawase and Super Meat Boy. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes A Difficult Game About Climbing special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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  • Jumping and platforming
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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Super Meat Boy

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Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

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You haul yourself up an enormous mountain of junk using only a hammer while stuck in a cauldron, and one slip can send you tumbling far back down. Bennett Foddy's narration turns the frustration into a strange, darkly funny meditation on perseverance.

Splasher

Jumping and platforming

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Jumping and platforming

You control a slice of bread, wrestling with deliberately clumsy physics-based controls as you climb through household environments to reach a toaster. The awkward handling delivers absurd humor and frustration in equal measure.

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