Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017

Is it still worth playing?

Bennett Foddy's 2017 platform game, first released through the October 2017 Humble Monthly. You control Diogenes, a man in a large metal cauldron, named after the philosopher who lived in a pot, who carries a Yosemite hammer. With the mouse or trackpad you move his upper body and the hammer to grip objects and pull yourself up a steep mountain. There are no checkpoints, so any slip can cost some or all of your progress. The climb ends when you reach the highest point and enter space. Throughout, Foddy's own voice-over comments on the climb, his philosophical observations and his inspirations for the game. Everything is reduced to one tool and one mountain, so the stripped back challenge is still all the game asks of you.