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A Difficult Game About Climbing

A Difficult Game About Climbing

This is a difficult game about climbing.

Released Mar 6, 2024 Developer Pontypants Platforms Windows · Mac Psychological HorrorDifficultAdventureSingleplayerPlatformer
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

88.9%positive4,546 reviews
Recommended · 14 found this helpful

“The game is Difficult and it is about Climbing”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“I just waisted 50 hours of my life climbing a fictional mountain and looking at a bald guys butt. no regrets”

— a player, Steam review · 51 hrs played
Recommended · 4 found this helpful

“I highly recommend this game if you're into games that challenges you and where progress is define by your actual skill progression. the physics and gameplay mechanic are really fun to interact with. 10 out of 10, I just completed all the achievements, chefs kiss.”

— a player, Steam review · 63 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 14:06 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

31playing at last check
3824-hour peak
1,578all-time peak
0 500 1k 2025 2026 790 avg · Mar 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

5achievements
2.3%median completion
0.2%rarest: The True Meaning Of Suffering
13.7% of players 13.4% of players 2.3% of players 0.4% of players 0.2% of players 13.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
13.7%Peak — Climb all the way up to the peak of the mountain.
13.4%True Ending — Hidden achievement
2.3%Escape — Find a way to leave this place.
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%The True Meaning Of Suffering — Escape 50 times.
0.4%The Meaning Of Suffering — Reach the Peak 50 times.
2.3%Escape — Find a way to leave this place.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$9.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$9.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US9.99 USD
EU9.75 EUR
UK8.50 GBP
Australia14.50 AUD
Canada12.99 CAD
Japan1,200 JPY
Brazil20.00 BRL
China42.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$3.9 China Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$11

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Nov 30, 2025
Key Rebinding Update - Patch Notes v1.2.65

With this update, you can finally rebind keys to your liking. This is exclusive to keyboard/mouse as the controls for gamepad wouldn't really work in any other configuration. Enjoy! Patch Notes v 1.2.

Nov 07, 2025
UI Update - Patch Notes v1.2.64

Patch Notes v1.2.64 Added options to hide the crown and cape. Added a Statistics screen showing PB times and clears for both maps. Improved localization across all languages. Fixed minor sound playbac

Oct 23, 2025
Improved localization, optimization and more - Patch Notes

v1.2.63 Patch Notes: Improved localization: Some of the translations were a bit off, these should hopefully be corrected now. It's hard for me to be sure since I don't speak any of the translated lang

Sep 01, 2025
Localization is here!

A Difficult Game About Climbing has now been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Russian and Korean!All UI elements, intro texts and credits (at the end of map 2) have been fully localized.Sti

Aug 30, 2025
Roadmap & Patch Notes

Patch Notes v1.2.5: To not spam out patch notes - here are all the patch notes since the release of the new expansion: Added 2 new achievements Difficulty balancing in several sections. Gift boxes now

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAction, Adventure
Player tagsPsychological Horror · Difficult · Adventure · Singleplayer · Platformer · Precision Platformer · Action · Funny · Philosophical · Horror · Physics · Casual (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , Japanese * , Korean * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * , Spanish - Latin America * *
ControllerFull support
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core CPU Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 1 GB available space