Surmount
Fling yourself into a mountain climbing adventure! Become the first to reach the top of the highest mountain in the world and meet eccentric…
82% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
Games like Kernmantle
Want something that feels atmospheric and tense the way Kernmantle does? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Turnip Mountain
Turnip Mountain is a physics-based climbing adventure in which you control each hand independently using two mice or two analogue sticks. Grab, swing and launch yourself to the summit your own way.
Retro
98% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$10.49Surmount
Fling yourself into a mountain climbing adventure! Become the first to reach the top of the highest mountain in the world and meet eccentric characters along the way!
82% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$3.74Sklime - A Difficult Climbing Adventure
Two arms, twice the difficulty. How high can you climb before the Depths reclaim you? A brutally difficult twin-stick climbing game
Tense, Retro
97% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$5.19Cairn
A survival-climber about scaling Mount Kami, a summit no one has ever reached. Read the rock, place your pitons, manage food and fingers, and decide what Aava is willing to give up to stand on top. Every wall is a fight, and every route is yours to choose.
Atmospheric, Tense
94% of 19,616 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 761$29.99White Knuckle
A first-person speed-climbing roguelite. Scale ten thousand meters of concrete, pipe and rust inside SUB-STRUCTURE 17, one handhold at a time, while something huge and angry rises from below. Precise momentum movement, tight inventory decisions and pure nerve. Lose your grip and there is a very long way down.
Atmospheric, Tense, Retro
98% of 14,916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 371$16.99Peaks of Yore
A first-person physics climbing game set in 1887. Grip, swing and haul yourself up the peaks of The Great Gales, one handhold at a time. It looks like a punishment game, but the ropes are kind and the learning curve is smooth: you fall, you learn, and one day you look down from somewhere you never thought you'd reach.
Atmospheric, Tense
97% of 3,647 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$18.99A Difficult Game About Climbing
A physics climber where your two arms and a mouse are all that stands between you and the legendary Peak. Every grab is yours, every fall is yours, and losing forty minutes of progress to one slipped hand is part of the deal. Brutal, absurd, and strangely meditative once your hands learn the mountain.
Tense, Retro
87% of 5,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$9.99Joshua's Legs
Joshua's Legs is a unique game with devious controls about a two-legged arachnid hoping to find his long lost prosthetic legs collection. Venture in a world that will only reveal its secrets to the true hardened climbers.
Atmospheric, Tense, Retro
92% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Idols of Ash
Descend thousands of meters into a dark, ancient mega-structure with nothing but a grappling hook, while a giant centipede hunts you down. Every swing is physics, every fall is yours, and the thing crawling behind you never stops. Short, tense and fair: one more drop always sounds like a good idea.
Atmospheric, Tense, Retro
97% of 3,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$2.99Jusant
Jusant is a calm action-puzzle climbing game from DON'T NOD. Scale an impossibly tall tower with your small watery friend, manage stamina and pitons, and piece together from letters and shells what happened to the people who once lived here. A few quiet hours, beautiful views, no pressure.
Atmospheric
93% of 4,178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99MAD WAY
MAD WAY is a game where you have to climb a strange universe without falling to find your love! A second map is now available in multiplayer mode (SandWay).
Tense
86% of 93 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Free Solo
A physics based climbing game about attempting to climb a very tall mountain while managing the pump in your arms. Climb through handcrafted routes while learning the mechanics and picking yourself up after you fall.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Cheaper than Kernmantle
Sklime - A Difficult Climbing Adventure
Two arms, twice the difficulty. How high can you climb before the Depths reclaim you? A brutally difficult twin-stick climbing game
97% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$5.19
Idols of Ash
A physics-driven descent through a grim, ancient structure, where one wrong fall ends the run and something huge never stops hunting.
97% of 3,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$2.99
MAD WAY
MAD WAY is a game where you have to climb a strange universe without falling to find your love!
86% of 93 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Free Solo
A physics based climbing game about attempting to climb a very tall mountain while managing the pump in your arms.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
The Wire Man
The Wire Man is a difficult 2d platformer game where you use wires to get to the goal point.
91% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Climbing In Barrel With Double-Barrel
This is a challenging game about climbing in barrel with double-barrel.
93% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
City Climber
City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world.
76% of 367 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Climbing Over It with a Spear
Climb a mountain with a spear, if you fall, you get up.
86% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
rock climbing
It's a difficult game but it should be easier than real rock climbing.
88% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
5125m
A contemplative pixel-art platformer where you climb a mountain with two independent grappling hooks, blending precision, mastery, and exploration…
50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Klifur
Minimalist 2D bouldering. Make your way through over 30 hand-made campaign routes or use the level editor to make your own routes and share them…
98% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like Kernmantle
Idols of Ash
A physics-driven descent through a grim, ancient structure, where one wrong fall ends the run and something huge never stops hunting.
97% of 3,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$2.99
Valley Peaks
Embark on a cozy climbing adventure in Valley Peaks, a ribbiting first-person platformer where each mountain is like a puzzle.
96% of 177 Steam reviews are positive$8.24
Peaks of Yore
Haul yourself up the mountain in 1887, one wobbly handhold at a time, until the impossible summit is under your boots.
97% of 3,647 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$18.99
White Knuckle
A first-person speed-climbing roguelite. Scale ten thousand meters of concrete, pipe and rust inside SUB-STRUCTURE 17, one handhold at a time, while…
98% of 14,916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 371$16.99
Cairn
You play Aava, a pro climber chasing the first ascent of a mountain that has never been climbed.
94% of 19,616 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 761$29.99
Jusant
Jusant is a calm action-puzzle climbing game from DON'T NOD.
93% of 4,178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
Rusted Moss
A grapple-driven metroidvania where every swing, shot and choice carries weight in a dying world.
88% of 1,643 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
The Cave Diver
A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you…
73% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Surmount
Fling yourself into a mountain climbing adventure! Become the first to reach the top of the highest mountain in the world and meet eccentric…
82% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
A Difficult Game About Climbing
Climb a huge mountain with nothing but your arms, one handhold at a time, knowing a single slip can drop you all the way back down.
87% of 5,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$9.99
Clamb
A punishing VR climbing game. Climb a surreal mountain with nothing but a hammer.
66% of 156 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Snake Pass
Play a legless snake in a physics puzzle platformer, and learn to move like one.
87% of 1,186 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Newest games like Kernmantle
PSI: Pressure Climbing
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Cave Diver
A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you…
73% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Turnip Mountain
Turnip Mountain is a physics-based climbing adventure in which you control each hand independently using two mice or two analogue sticks.
98% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$10.49
Ropeman
A two dimensional platformer where you throw a knife into a wall, attach your rope to it, and swing like a pendulum.
100% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Klifur
Minimalist 2D bouldering. Make your way through over 30 hand-made campaign routes or use the level editor to make your own routes and share them…
98% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Idols of Ash
A physics-driven descent through a grim, ancient structure, where one wrong fall ends the run and something huge never stops hunting.
97% of 3,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$2.99
New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering
The ultimate climbing and bouldering simulation game. Test your skills across more than 280 routes on real world crags from the Fontainebleau…
89% of 251 Steam reviews are positive$21.99
Cairn
You play Aava, a pro climber chasing the first ascent of a mountain that has never been climbed.
94% of 19,616 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 761$29.99
Stick With It
A hard game about climbing with nothing but your pogo stick. Simple controls, endless falls, and no mercy.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Math Climber
Climbing a mountain is hard. Solving math problems while climbing a mountain is even harder.
83% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Summit : Steps of Solace
Summit : Steps of Solace is an exhilarating mountain climbing precision platformer, where you scale a relentless peak filled with brutal jumps…
96% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
White Knuckle
A first-person speed-climbing roguelite. Scale ten thousand meters of concrete, pipe and rust inside SUB-STRUCTURE 17, one handhold at a time, while…
98% of 14,916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 371$16.99