A Difficult Game About Climbing
Worth it · Action · 2024
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2024.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 35% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($6.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 35% ($6.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
This is a difficult game about climbing.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $6.49. 18 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $6.49 at 35 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 63 at list, 70 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jump King ($12.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy ($7.99, scores 65).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 1,068 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Players
33 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 18:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
A Difficult Game About Climbing scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2497920/a-difficult-game-about-climbingReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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