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A Difficult Game About Climbing

Pontypants · 2024-03-06

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

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

This is a difficult game about climbing.

17
playing now
87%
positive of 5.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
7,387
twitch viewers (latest)
66/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

17 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 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.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 17 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 15% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 114k–255k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,675 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 10 of 21 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

69112026-08-07 00:00 — 41 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 37 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 66 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 47 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 39 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 69 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 43 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 39 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 62 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 43 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 38 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 57 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 27 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 33 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 51 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 42 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 35 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 38 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 29 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 17 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 48 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 20 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 33 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 31 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 19 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 31 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 30 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 17 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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

76162026-05-30 — 25 pageviews2026-06-02 — 38 pageviews2026-06-05 — 38 pageviews2026-06-08 — 59 pageviews2026-06-11 — 40 pageviews2026-06-14 — 39 pageviews2026-06-17 — 21 pageviews2026-06-20 — 26 pageviews2026-06-23 — 32 pageviews2026-06-26 — 76 pageviews2026-06-29 — 27 pageviews2026-07-02 — 31 pageviews2026-07-05 — 30 pageviews2026-07-08 — 29 pageviews2026-07-11 — 43 pageviews2026-07-14 — 38 pageviews2026-07-17 — 32 pageviews2026-07-20 — 38 pageviews2026-07-23 — 32 pageviews2026-07-26 — 28 pageviews2026-07-29 — 19 pageviews2026-08-01 — 28 pageviews2026-08-04 — 40 pageviews2026-08-07 — 24 pageviews2026-08-10 — 39 pageviews2026-08-13 — 26 pageviews2026-08-16 — 32 pageviews2026-08-19 — 21 pageviews2026-08-22 — 16 pageviews2026-08-25 — 17 pageviews2026-08-27 — 23 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.

Player tags

FunnyActionCasualHorrorPhysicsAdventureDifficultDark HumorPlatformerReplay Value

Census log

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

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