A Difficult Game About Climbing on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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This is a difficult game about climbing.
A Difficult Game About Climbing is a psychological horror, difficult and adventure game
developed and published by Pontypants.
Released on March 06th 2024 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.
It has received 4,471 reviews of which 3,979 were positive and 492 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.
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Windows
- 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
MacOS
- OS: MacOS Big Sur
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core CPU
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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I was looking for something to scratch the Getting Over It itch after finishing the golden pot, and saw this listed as a "true spiritual successor" so I gave it a shot. My first run took about 8 hours and I won't be trying to speedrun it or anything, but ADGAC holds true to the characteristics that made Getting Over It shine. I'm going to compare the two often in this review because they're two games that approach the same problem in similar ways that lead to very different experiences. I'll be honest, when I picked up the game (along with Sisyphus, which I returned) I was worried it was a cheap knockoff after the first few sections, and I put it down for a few months. I came back to it when I was looking at Peaks of Yore and decided to give it another shot. The physics of the climber in this game lead to less feeling of precision than Diogenes and his hammer did, but the same satisfying feeling of converging on consistent movements is present and that alone is why I put this game in the same bucket as Getting Over It. You won't get past the first few sections by flailing, and the last few sections require some fairly precise platforming, but I can promise you the mechanics to make those jumps consistently do exist. I played on KB/M and I was able to do everything consistently. After beating the game, I watched a guide to compare approaches and the guide suggested controller, but when I tried controller it felt pretty clunky. That could be because I just learned with KB/M first. You'll want a large surface area for your mouse to move around, I sometimes wound up with my arm completely outstretched. One thing the map in this game does is force you to challenge assumptions. Getting Over It was pretty straightforward, for me at least. I knew where I had to go and I knew I'd need to learn new mechanics, but I never really had to consider if I was approaching an obstacle correctly. ADGAC had multiple moments where I realized I was not only doing the action wrong, I was doing the wrong action. It's what led to me putting the game down the first time and at the end of the day it elevates ADGAC above "clone/knockoff" status and into what I consider a "Foddy-like" peer. The fail nets are very fair, and if they aren't, it feels like the game is intentionally trying to drill a new mechanic into you. It all feels very intentional and doesn't feel at all like the game is cheap or unfair, ever. The only con for me is there's no narration, but no narration is better than bad narration. Overall I give this a 9.5/10, it was very good and it was clearly made as a love letter to Getting Over It, not a cash grab.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☑ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template
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I was having an issue where my display settings were set to a 1x1 resolution, so I wasn't able to click on anything. I reached out to the developer for help, and he was very open and patient talking me through it. We got the problem solved after a back-and-forth via email where he got back to me consistently quickly. The game itself is awesome. The controls are intuitive, and the imagery is stunning. I got addicted fast. Does not run well on mac 2019 at high resolution, but it works just fine at lower resolutions. Highly recommend.
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Seeing this game as anything other than a 'getting over it competitor' is slightly difficult for the obvious reasons and so I think it is important to compare the two. Personally I prefer getting over it. I think that part of the genius of getting over it was that despite its utter simplicity and lack of any game mechanics past what you learn in the first 5 seconds; move your mouse to move the hammer, there's still an entire game there and a relatively difficult, frustrating one at that. It's impressive that despite how little you have to keep track of and with nothing to distract you from the one basic control you have, it's still so easy to fall and every time you do, it's all your fault. That's what makes it frustrating, it is as simple as can be and yet you still keep messing up and there is no one else to blame than yourself. I think that is a very important thing to note about what makes getting over it good, no matter how much you want to shift blame onto the game, you are only ever truly frustrated with yourself. This game, while not straying all too far from this very imperative simplicity, complicates things slightly with the fact that you have two arms to control and keep track of. How far your grip slips can feel very random compared with the way the hammer in getting over it interacts so solidly with the obstacles. There were many times in my playthrough (and in other peoples' that I have seen on youtube) where one hand simply falls off of what it is holding onto in a pivotal moment for seemingly no reason at all. I can't say for sure whether or not there is any RNG involved but for a lot of the times I fell, I didn't feel that it was fair to be frustrated with myself. That all being said, I was hooked once I got into the swing of things and I was sad to see the end of the game. The unique mechanics being added as you progress kept the gameplay feeling novel without being overwhelming. Overall I'd say good game.
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What more do you need? Working legs? No, that's stupid. All you need is upper body strength. Your legs might as well be in a cauldron.
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