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New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
The ultimate climbing and bouldering simulation game. Test your skills across more than 280 routes on real world crags from the Fontainebleau boulders to Hanshelleren Cave, including the legendary route Silence. Create your own routes and compete with friends for the best sends.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-19.
“Wanted more after a free solo run in Cairn. Feel like this is exactly what I was looking for”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Great Game. If you like climbing or simulator games you should definitely get this. [b]The Good:[/b] [list] [*] * Very fun climbing system, this came out before Cairn, but if you're familiar with Cairn's manual mod using the bumpers/triggers, this is similar. [*] * A ton of…”
— a player, Steam review · 44 hrs played“This team really knows about and loves climbing, which is clear in every aspect of the game. Wonderful natural routes, with even Hanshelleren to be climbed! This really adds to the climbing experience. I found the instructions on how to move an grip nicely done, with nice…”
— a player, Steam review · 39 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:42 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.
Achievements & Workshop Location Tool Patched / Fixed
Hello everyone! It's been a while. Today I've fixed the star achievements, and the workshop tool. Development is going to be slower than when we were in Early Access, but not completely halted. Of cou
Climbing System Blog - How we created our climber - Part 3
We added a new part of our 'How we created our climber' blog, with insights how we handled the physics and game design of the climbing system in New Heights. For people who like to know the challenges
Patch with fixes for reported issues
We released a fixes-patch today! It covers a lot of fixes for reports from both the Discord and Steam forum. Mostly route fixes about checkpoints, star times and geometry fixes on Al Legne, Hansheller
Small UI / localization fixes patch
We fixed a few UI & localization issues with this patch. The Dyno tutorial showed the wrong buttons. The workshop menu didn't localize well for non-latin characters. And some other minor things.
Full Release! New Heights out of Early Access
New Heights is now officially out of early access! It comes with a gigantic update that has cost us 19 months to develop. This update reworks the climbing system completely, optimizes a lot, includes
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-19.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Sports |
| Player tags | Early Access · Simulation · Sports · Tutorial · Parkour · Realistic · Adventure · Family Friendly · 3D · Atmospheric · Physics · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Dutch, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 53 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://newheightsgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or later Processor: i3 or Ryzen 3 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 15 GB available space