Uploaded December 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Crytek's The Climb is rock climbing experience in Virtual Reality.
Crytek is known for pushing the boundaries of graphics performance, and that trend continues in VR. The Climb is one of the highest fidelity VR experiences.The act of not falling nearly consumes you during play. One false move means you’ll experience a mix of exhilaration and terror as you free fall until the screen turns white.
The Climb is how Crytek used a lack of resources to craft one of the most ingenious control mechanics.
Motion controllers like Oculus Touch weren’t available when the development team began working on The Climb. So Crytek imagined a world where your head would direct both perspective as well as your virtual hands. Turn your head left, and the camera will swing that direction along with a floating in-game hand. To grasp a hard-to-reach hold, you have to really lean your shoulders and crane your neck, as if straining your arm muscles to scale a steep slope.
On the GPU side this game looks like it will perform equally well on AMD and Nvidia, but again this is something that we will not really know until release.
CPU: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8 GB RAM
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
OS: Windows 7 SP1 or newer
HDD: We do not know the final size of our game yet
Display: Oculus Rift, native resolution
Read More Here: theclimbgame.tumblr.com
Crytek's The Climb is rock climbing experience in Virtual Reality.
Crytek is known for pushing the boundaries of graphics performance, and that trend continues in VR. The Climb is one of the highest fidelity VR experiences.The act of not falling nearly consumes you during play. One false move means you’ll experience a mix of exhilaration and terror as you free fall until the screen turns white.
The Climb is how Crytek used a lack of resources to craft one of the most ingenious control mechanics.
Motion controllers like Oculus Touch weren’t available when the development team began working on The Climb. So Crytek imagined a world where your head would direct both perspective as well as your virtual hands. Turn your head left, and the camera will swing that direction along with a floating in-game hand. To grasp a hard-to-reach hold, you have to really lean your shoulders and crane your neck, as if straining your arm muscles to scale a steep slope.
On the GPU side this game looks like it will perform equally well on AMD and Nvidia, but again this is something that we will not really know until release.
CPU: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8 GB RAM
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
OS: Windows 7 SP1 or newer
HDD: We do not know the final size of our game yet
Display: Oculus Rift, native resolution
Read More Here: theclimbgame.tumblr.com
