Games Like Getting Over It: Hard Climbing Games Online
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Games like Getting Over It are hard climbing games: you drag a character up a mountain with awkward, physics-based controls, and one mistake can drop you back down. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy came out in 2017. Below are original browser games by independent studios that share its slow, punishing climb, plus rage platformers that test your patience the same way.
What makes Getting Over It hard
In Getting Over It you control a man sitting in a large metal cauldron. He holds a hammer, which he uses to grip the terrain and pull himself along, and you move his upper body and the hammer with the mouse alone. The goal is to climb a steep mountain. There are no checkpoints, so a single bad swing can cost you some or all of your progress.
That leaves three ingredients: controls you have to master rather than just press, a long climb with no safety net, and failure as the way you learn. The games below each pick up one or more of them.
| What Getting Over It does | Games that do the same |
|---|---|
| Climb with your hands or a tool, not with jumps | This Game About Climbing, Stretch Guy |
| One slip can cost you a lot of progress | This Game About Climbing, Golfing Island |
| Levels you learn by dying | Try Again, Ninja Platformer Rage |
| One long climb upward | Jungle Climber, Never Fall |
Closest to Getting Over It
- This Game About Climbing is the nearest match. You use only the mouse to control your climber's hands and pull yourself up an enormous, treacherous mountain, with slippery surfaces on the way. It calls itself punishing but not impossible: you can never die or get hurt, but you can lose all your progress with one mistake. It also plays with a gamepad.
- Stretch Guy is a slower take on climbing with your limbs. You drag the character's arms and legs to move him, and his limbs can only hold on to the wall. The game warns you not to push too hard.
Rage platformers: die, learn, try again
These are not about climbing with a tool, but they share the mood: short levels that beat you many times before you beat them.
- Try Again is a tricky physics platformer. You roll a ball through 70 levels where floors vanish, traps wait for the perfect moment and levels behave differently on every attempt. Every 10 levels brings a new zone and a boss level. Roll with the arrow keys or A and D, and jump with up, W or Space.
- Ninja Platformer Rage has 50 brutally short levels full of deadly traps, and it tracks your best time. Move with A and D or the arrow keys and jump with Space. Shift throws your shadow and a double Shift teleports you to it. You can also climb walls and double-jump.
- Golfing Island turns the idea into golf. Drag to aim your shot across 20 hard levels of islands and obstacles, and if the ball falls off an island you must start again. Collect all the coins on a level for three stars.
The one-button kind of hard, where you time jumps over spikes to music, has its own guide: games like Geometry Dash.
Endless climbs
If the part you like is going up and up, these turn the climb into a score.
- Jungle Climber has you grab vines as a small monkey and climb as high as you can while rocks, icicles, fireballs and more fall from above. Bananas give you a second chance and a hot chili is a rocket boost. Move with A and D.
- Never Fall is a tap-to-jump climb from platform to platform through endless skies. One mistake sends you falling, and the climb gets harder the higher you go.
How to keep your cool in climbing and rage games
- Move slowly. In mouse-driven climbers like This Game About Climbing, small, steady movements beat fast swings that send you flying.
- Learn one section at a time. Try Again says it outright: remember where the traps hide and find the safe timing.
- Treat a fall as practice. When you lose progress, the second climb through the same part is faster because you already know it.
- Take breaks. These games are built to frustrate, and a tired hand makes more mistakes than a rested one.
- Pick your fight. If you want the challenge without losing everything, choose a level-based game like Ninja Platformer Rage, where a failure costs you one short level, not the whole climb.
Games like Getting Over It FAQ
What are games like Getting Over It called?
People often call them rage games, because they are built to be frustrating and to test your patience. Climbing games with a single long ascent and no checkpoints are the closest kind.
Are there easier games with checkpoints?
Yes. Obby games bring you back to the last checkpoint after a fall instead of to the bottom. See obby games for courses like that.
Are these games free?
Yes. They play free in the browser, and the site asks for neither money nor personal data.
More climbs and jumps are in platformer games and adventure games.
