Games like A Difficult Game About Climbing
If A Difficult Game About Climbing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, THE DARUMA CHALLENGE and Space Kettle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its clever obstacle design, immaculate sound effects and brutal. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →A Difficult Game About Climbing is a 2024 physics-based precision platformer developed and published by Pontypants. Players navigate treacherous vertical environments through environmental puzzle-solving and environmental hazards while mastering checkpoint-based progression. The game features level design that incorporates achievement-hunting and achievement-grinding mechanics. Players describe the experience as brutal, challenging, dark, funny, and intense, with reviewers highlighting clever obstacle design that rewards patience and mastery-based progression that defines success by skill. The immersive ASMR-quality sound design has been noted for its immaculate sound effects. The experience is solo-only with a long session shape designed for focused sit-down play, and it runs playably on Steam Deck. Priced at $6.49, the game holds an 88% positive rating from 3211 Steam reviews.
About A Difficult Game About Climbing: This is a difficult game about climbing.
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Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
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Shares a stressful mood with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Top pick for A Difficult Game About Climbing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.
THE DARUMA CHALLENGE
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Second-strongest match for A Difficult Game About Climbing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
A brutal bouncing challenge. No shortcuts, no mercy—just you vs. gravity. How far will you climb before it all comes crashing down?
Space Kettle
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Third-strongest match for A Difficult Game About Climbing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Have you ever played a game as a Flying Kettle? No? It’s time to fix this. In this game, your main goal is to reach the top of the unyielding surreal mountain at any cost, going through the test of inevitable falls, constant loss of progress, and deep frustration.
Hop to It!
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Ranked #4 for A Difficult Game About Climbing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Hop your way through a colorful level filled with various challenges and obstacles, master the state-of-the-art pogo stick controls, and try not to fall...
Egging On
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Shares environmental hazards, physics based movement, challenging and a brutal mood with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Ranked #5 for A Difficult Game About Climbing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.
My Type of Goblin: A Climbing ASDFenture
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Ranked #6 for A Difficult Game About Climbing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Use the whole keyboard to climb, slingshot, and slide your way up a mountain. Collect bizarre accessories on your quest to become the most gorgeous Goblin. But one mistake can send you tumbling back down.
rock climbing
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Ranked #7 for A Difficult Game About Climbing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
It's a difficult game but it should be easier than real rock climbing.
Climbing Back to the Mothership
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Ranked #8 for A Difficult Game About Climbing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
I've spent a lot of time making new friends. Now it's time for them to pay the price.
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Priced ~85% under A Difficult Game About Climbing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
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Priced ~54% under A Difficult Game About Climbing on Steam right now. Shares Action with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~42% under A Difficult Game About Climbing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~69% under A Difficult Game About Climbing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~77% under A Difficult Game About Climbing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~54% under A Difficult Game About Climbing on Steam right now. Shares Action with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~54% under A Difficult Game About Climbing on Steam right now. Shares Action with A Difficult Game About Climbing.
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Frequently asked about A Difficult Game About Climbing
- Does A Difficult Game About Climbing run on Steam Deck?
- A Difficult Game About Climbing is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does A Difficult Game About Climbing cost?
- A Difficult Game About Climbing is listed on Steam at 6.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Difficult Game About Climbing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Difficult Game About Climbing are Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, THE DARUMA CHALLENGE, Space Kettle.
- Who developed A Difficult Game About Climbing?
- A Difficult Game About Climbing was developed by Pontypants.
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