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New Turn-Based Game Tries to Reinvent the Climbing Genre

A new game is bringing a strategic turn-based twist to the growing genre of climbing games. 

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An interesting new climbing game is incorporating some fresh mechanics that look to make it stand apart from other mountain climbing experiences.

Ascenders: Beyond the Peak is doing something different

Over the past few years, mountain climbing games have begun to appear more often in the AA and indie space. It could be argued that well-known French studio Don’t Nod started the wave in 2023 with Jusant, a stylish climbing adventure game that had players setting anchors, adjusting rope lengths, and making careful leaps to progress up its treacherous, seemingly never-ending mountain. Some of Jusant‘s more mild climbing mechanics can even be seen in Don’t Nod’s most recent outing, the sci-fi horror adventure game Aphelion.

Cairn and Peak are two other notable climbing games that have come out recently. The former is a bit more of a gritty hardcore climbing........

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