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Grow Home and Grow Up are two good short games where you're a little robot climbing and exploring to get upgrades and climb higher. They (maybe just Up?) have the issue where you eventually unlock upgrades that trivialize climbing and let you go where you want, but they're so short and sweet that it hardly matters. IIRC Home is more linear while Up has an open world.
Valley Peaks is a first person game where you're a frog tasked with tackling different mountain climbing routes in any order you please. You'll also get upgrades that make the game too easy, so I recommend you limit yourself. It was fun, but the non-linear nature means you can easily beat the most difficult route right away and then have nothing left but easier ones. I would have liked it more with a set path.
I really wanted to like Only Up! but the controls/camera were too shonky. Watching the trailer is making me want to give it another shot though...
Seems like a dumb meme game but stuff like this counts too.
Cairn is the reason I made this thread. It looks like it would be a great game, except you're a brown ****** woman so I will never play it
White Knuckle is a roguelike climber where you can get random upgrades. I didn't care for it. I think Tweed played it more than I did.
There's The Climb 1/2, but I can't be bothered ******* with VR again.
Death Stranding can have great climbing moments. I like that you have to rely on whatever gear you chose to bring 30 minutes ago and what other players have left behind.
Planning routes in the Nu-Zeldas could be pretty fun. I wore the climbing armor the entire game.
Certainly not a game about climbing, but I really like levels like these where you're navigating dangerous high-up places where you can slip and die any moment.
Speaking of Half-Life 2, it was HL2DM maps like these where you build you way up that got me into this sort of thing in the first place. Working together to make a course of ramps, jumps, etc is what I yearned for as a child. Amazing opportunities for griefing too.
And how could I forget Dr. Carter and the Wheels of Salvation? Flash game you can play in your browser where you need to hop between spinning wheels while lava rises below you.
https://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/Gam ... heels.html
