Crux: A Climbing Game

I’m a climber and I really enjoy this game. Props to the game designer and developers. Good job!

But it’s very boring for me. I couldn’t make it past the first few levels. I think part of the issue for me is that though the mechanics are spectacular and work wonderfully, the levels are designed into an unrealistic hard grid not seen in the climbing walls and natural rock formations. I suppose it’s an abstraction. Things could have been off kilter on position but they are tightened up for playability. Still... seems like there could be an alternate mode in future where the layout doesn’t conform to a grid.... maybe either the grid gets distorted spatially, but remains a grid. Or some other solution.

At first the controls are less than stellar or intuitive. Feet movement while very very important to climbing with good technique. It’s frustrating to have to tap multiple times to cycle through a position from left to right without all the intermediate steps. It makes you the climber feel like they have ZERO core strength lol. The camera is where frankly the game really shows weakness. There is no point to have a locked and scroll camera options. Just have us able to swipe to change the camera pan. As well a. Option to go auto so the camera moves with your progression or a detection when you reach the top or a threahold and have the camera auto centre you. I’ve lost countless attempts due to losing the visual of my character to successfully navigate a section. Either I go through quicker than expected or it’s in the bad zone of notifications that ruin the experience by covering what I need to visually see that’s important. Errors also occur with character falling off at the very start of Zone holds without even me moving. A Beta option should also be made to see either your friends or just the key to the puzzle if needed. Would love to see more variation of moves and possible various mechanics being added. Also playing the game with the swipe on default is a poor choice and almost uninstalled until I found this option to show the arrows. Movement is already not the best in response and without those arrows it’s like taking a guess if the character will actually move at all.

no instructions, my person wont hold on and the game crashes every time i fall. unplayable.

Only gripe is I can’t play as a guy. Why not?

Love this app, made my climbing friends download it so they can make me hard routes,really like the problem solving. Best climbing game/app ive tried yet!!

I was so skeptical when I found this but of course had to try. I’m so happy I did. This game hits the mark. Such awesome game play for a climbing game.

Sometimes with or without wifi, the logo screen won’t go away for quite a bit. It is annoying. The 2nd issue I have is when the menu screen comes up, the gyms sometimes won’t load so it’s just an empty menu screen.

Good music, controls become intuitive fairly quickly, wonderful learning curse that teaches you to recognize patterns and then modify and combine them in different ways. I love it

After pissing around in the XNA framework 10 years ago, finally someone has made a decent climbing game. Really impressed with what you’ve built here you nailed the abstraction to make a game that’s challenging yet achievable. Take my money! (I’d love a comp circuit and rpg type things that would make it easier to climb harder routes)