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New Heights: Realistic Climbing and Bouldering

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Simulation
Publisher: WhisperGames
Developer: Wikkl Works
Release Date: 2024

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'New Heights' Is A Realistic Climbing Simulator, Now in Early Access - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on July 7, 2023 @ 3:30 p.m. PDT

In New Heights you can experience free solo climbing and bouldering like never before.

Made by real climbers, New Heights offers a realistic and immersive climbing and bouldering experience that will put your skills to the test. Ascending higher and higher on real-world locations, you'll feel that you are really there, tackling the toughest climbing and bouldering challenges.

Featuring realistic, physics-based climbing mechanics that will put your balance and grip to the test as you approach climbing and bouldering problems just as you would in real life. Feel the adrenaline rush as you make your way up the cliffs, and the sense of accomplishment as you reach the top.

New Heights offers a realistic and immersive climbing and bouldering experience that will transport you to beautiful and treacherous locations that you might never have the opportunity to visit in real life. Each location available in the game was scanned in from real-world locations using drones, meaning that, in the future, players may see their favorite climbing spots in the game! Players may even be able to climb locations unavailable for climbers in the real world.

Push the boundaries of what's possible in climbing and bouldering. With the ability to try out free solo climbing and bouldering from the safety of your computer and to tackle routes that are inaccessible in real life. Once players feel like they’ve got what it takes, they can challenge their friends and see who can reach the highest spot on the leaderboards.

New Heights is the ultimate climbing and bouldering game for anyone who loves the thrill of climbing, and wants to experience it in the most realistic and immersive way possible. Get ready to reach new heights!


Developer Wikkl Works has launched its climbing and bouldering simulator New Heights into Steam Early Access for $19.99, and will remain so for about a year.

“Currently we are developing two areas: Training Grounds and Belgian Ardennes, containing four locations that can be climbed. It would certainly take about 50+ hours to fully complete every possible route in these four locations alone, but about 12 to 16 hours to progress through them normally, after which you would unlock a new area.”

“The full game will include a lot more (real world) locations to climb, more customization options and a more fleshed out 'career' quest line, possibly voice-acted. We consider adding real-time multiplayer. Depending on popularity / demand, we consider a way for people to import and create their own locations as well. Because we utilize IK and physics, the game will never be fully quirk-less, not even in a released version. But during early access we will develop the climbing system toward both the most smooth and realistic gameplay as possible.”

Key Features:

  • Realistic, physics-based climbing mechanics that test your balance and grip
  • Real cliffs and structures made possible by photogrammetry and drones
  • Climb in locations you might never have the opportunity to visit in real life
  • Try out free solo climbing and bouldering from the safety of your computer
  • Climb where it's not allowed in real life
  • Leaderboards to compete with other players
  • Elevate your climbing skills
  • Conquer fear of heights in a virtual setting

New Heights is in development for PC (Steam), scheduled for 2024.



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