Climb Fall Repeat

Most extreme sports come with great risks, which is what makes them extreme. People take all sorts of safety measures in order to protect themselves, but there’s always the chance for things to go wrong, regardless of how well-prepared you might be. Climbing mountains is a fairly dangerous activity, but even more so if you prefer to climb vertical walls instead.

Climb Fall Repeat is a fun arcade game in which you have to climb a mountain and avoid the boulders that keep falling upon you. There’s nothing you can do but keep going up and move from left to right, but the mechanics are fairly addictive, at least for a few minutes. Even if there are no multiple levels and no actual story or character progression, the high score system keeps you coming back for more.

To make things even better, you can choose between three different difficulty levels, depending on your patience and skill. Obviously, higher difficulty levels feature a lot more rocks, and they also move a lot quicker, but the mechanics are just sped up, not changed in any way. Hence, you can easily move from Medium to Hard if you have mastered the former, except that you have to react quicker.

As you keep gaining altitude and staying alive, the scenery around you changes every now and again, depending on how high you are. Grass makes way to hard rock after a few hundred feet, and snow makes an appearance as well if you get near the peak. These changes do not have an actual effect on the gameplay, but at least they reward your progress.

It’s also worth mentioning that your character can take a few hits before you lose, although not too many. Each boulder that hits you drains your health bar a little bit, although limbs can fly off as well later on in the game. Lastly, the graphics are not too bad either, but you should obviously lower your expectations in this regard, given the fact that this is no more than a jam game.

In spite of the fact that it’s short and somewhat repetitive, Climb Fall Repeat has some real potential, at least if the developers add more features and more variety in the levels. However, even this short experience can entertain you for a while if you give it a chance.