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Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Master the gibbon’s art of movement with a unique moveset that lets you swing, slide and somersault through a lush jungle canopy, and experience a free-flowing story of family and survival as you search for a home that may be lost forever.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.
“One of the prettiest games I've ever played! The art style is so eye catching and how the colors relate to each chapter is so cinematic. A lovely sweet story and showing the devastation of the forest through mechanics and the loss of platforms to swing on is so sad and…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“gibbies :) (screw palm oil industry and traffickers!!!)”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“From the videos I was expecting a platform game and/or maybe mouse-aimed swinging game. This is more like one of those "runner" games, but instead of pressing one key to jump, it's mostly holding one key to not fall and *letting go* to jump. I like platform games and mouse-aimed…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:09 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Incoming: Challenge Modes
Hey everyone! We have a new major update for Gibbon: Beyond the Trees. We really liked our Daily Runs and you seem to do so, too. Thanks for playing them so frequently! With this new update we are bui
Animal Fest Migration Route Stream
Steam's Animal Fest is coming up next week, and we are thrilled to be part of it! As a little celebration to kick things off, we're part of the Migration Route on Monday 10th November, where a bunch o
Gibbon is Steam Deck Verified
Hey dear Steam Deck players! We have never properly announced it, but we have something nice in store for you. We wanted to let you know that Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is fully Steam Deck compatible ✅
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees releases in physical format today
Hey everyone! We are partnering up with Super Rare Games to release our game Gibbon: Beyond the Trees on Nintendo Switch™ as a limited boxed version, including some really nice special items. It will
Daily Run Leaderboard Hotfix 1.9.3
The last update broke leaderboard creation for Daily Runs, which caused them to appear empty for everyone. Since the run results are stored locally for a week, they can still be uploaded with this upd
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Story Rich · Adventure · Well-Written · Atmospheric · Soundtrack · Narrative · Cozy · Cute · Action-Adventure · Emotional · Wholesome · Nature (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Custom Volume Controls · Keyboard Only Option · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input · Save Anytime |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Spanish - Latin America, Arabic, Indonesian, M… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 27 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.gibbongame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: 10 Processor: 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000 DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space