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A Difficult Game About Climbing

Pontypants · 2024-03-06

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 06, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (PlayStation 4)

This is a difficult game about climbing.

A Difficult Game About Climbing is a $9.99 Action and Adventure game released in 2024, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (87% of 5690 reviews).

35
playing now
87%
positive of 5.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
7,387
twitch viewers (latest)
7387.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
66/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
59
Nexus mods (52k downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

35 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

A Difficult Game About Climbing is a 2024 indie climbing video game and rage game produced by solo developer Pontypants in the Unity engine and inspired by the gameplay of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.

Trailer

A Difficult Game About Climbing trailer thumbnail

A Difficult Game About Climbing - Part 1

≈674,813 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 35 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 561 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~70/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (2,188 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 114k–256k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,690 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2026-08-02)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.9k1.9k20242026Week of 2024-03-01: 1,919 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 269 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 614 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 295 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4572026-09-15 13:00 — 30 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 19 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 13 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 28 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 26 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 16 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 19 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 24 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 24 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 24 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 45 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 20 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 21 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 39 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 31 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 18 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 32 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 17 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 14 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 37 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 28 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 17 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 35 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
79016Mar 2024Aug 2026Mar 2024 — avg 790 · peak 1,578Apr 2024 — avg 280 · peak 548May 2024 — avg 106 · peak 229Jun 2024 — avg 58 · peak 128Jul 2024 — avg 51 · peak 102Aug 2024 — avg 30 · peak 53Sep 2024 — avg 21 · peak 43Oct 2024 — avg 27 · peak 107Nov 2024 — avg 22 · peak 47Dec 2024 — avg 26 · peak 63Jan 2025 — avg 27 · peak 62Feb 2025 — avg 25 · peak 51Mar 2025 — avg 24 · peak 55Apr 2025 — avg 17 · peak 36May 2025 — avg 16 · peak 34Jun 2025 — avg 16 · peak 34Jul 2025 — avg 18 · peak 40Aug 2025 — avg 50 · peak 233Sep 2025 — avg 102 · peak 214Oct 2025 — avg 61 · peak 149Nov 2025 — avg 36 · peak 74Dec 2025 — avg 34 · peak 65Jan 2026 — avg 34 · peak 75Feb 2026 — avg 31 · peak 65Mar 2026 — avg 29 · peak 53Apr 2026 — avg 27 · peak 61May 2026 — avg 28 · peak 69Jun 2026 — avg 27 · peak 54Jul 2026 — avg 27 · peak 54Aug 2026 — avg 36 · peak 140
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$4.992024-03-062026-08-092024-03-06 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $6.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-10-16 — best price $6.992024-10-27 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $6.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $6.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $6.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-07 — best price $7.992025-06-11 — best price $9.992025-06-27 — best price $6.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-08-25 — best price $7.492025-09-01 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $6.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-10-15 — best price $6.992025-10-22 — best price $9.992025-12-08 — best price $6.992025-12-15 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $6.492026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-02-09 — best price $6.992026-02-16 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $6.492026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-30 — best price $6.492026-05-07 — best price $9.992026-06-11 — best price $6.492026-06-18 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $6.492026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-02 — best price $4.992026-08-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

43162026-05-30 — 25 pageviews2026-06-03 — 25 pageviews2026-06-07 — 38 pageviews2026-06-11 — 40 pageviews2026-06-15 — 36 pageviews2026-06-19 — 33 pageviews2026-06-23 — 32 pageviews2026-06-27 — 32 pageviews2026-07-01 — 39 pageviews2026-07-05 — 30 pageviews2026-07-09 — 39 pageviews2026-07-13 — 42 pageviews2026-07-17 — 32 pageviews2026-07-21 — 33 pageviews2026-07-25 — 41 pageviews2026-07-29 — 19 pageviews2026-08-02 — 40 pageviews2026-08-06 — 32 pageviews2026-08-10 — 39 pageviews2026-08-14 — 38 pageviews2026-08-18 — 35 pageviews2026-08-22 — 16 pageviews2026-08-26 — 21 pageviews2026-08-30 — 32 pageviews2026-09-03 — 31 pageviews2026-09-07 — 29 pageviews2026-09-11 — 24 pageviews2026-09-15 — 29 pageviews2026-09-19 — 32 pageviews2026-09-23 — 42 pageviews2026-09-27 — 34 pageviews2026-10-01 — 24 pageviews2026-10-05 — 36 pageviews2026-10-08 — 32 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
13.5%
earned "Peak"
2.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6362%5

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FunnyActionCasualHorrorPhysicsAdventureDifficultDark HumorPlatformerReplay Value

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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