Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

iOS, included with Apple Arcade (Broken Rules)

Set in a hand-drawn paradise forest that looks like Eden, your gibbon swings gracefully from tree to tree using a simple but very satisfying two-thumb control system that reminds me of the Alto's Adventure games.

As you learn how to move around, you might run into a person sitting around a fire or hanging out in their treehouse. As you go further, you'll see more and more people as the jungle thins out and gives way to buildings.

Its message about the environment is given with skill and charm, and the hour or so it takes to read all nine chapters is rarely less than enchanting.

Find out more about gibbons and their habitat in the new unlockable encyclopedia!

Apple Design Award Winner 2022

A beautiful new adventure by multiple award winning developers of Old Man’s Journey and ELOH, in which a family of gibbons finds themselves lost in a dangerous world beyond their understanding.

- Experience free-flowing dynamic movement based on brachiation, the way real gibbons swing through the trees

- Master acrobatic moves, including launching from another gibbon’s hands in mid air

- A touching adventure of a family of gibbons trying to survive amid an encroaching human threat.

- Play through an hourlong adventure in story mode, or race to freedom through a procedurally generated jungle in liberation mode.

- Compete in the leaderboards and see how far you can swing, backflip and slide in Daily Run mode!

- Stunning 2D hand painted visuals that breathe life into a rapidly vanishing world.

- Explore varied environments, from the wild jungles of Southeast Asia to the hectic human world beyond.

- Find out more about gibbons and their habitat in an unlockable encyclopedia.

- Gibbon: Beyond the Trees deals with challenging but acute environmental topics, including deforestation, poaching and climate change.

Accolades:

- Apple Design Award Social Impact winner 2022, USA

- Bitsummit International Award winner 2022, Japan

- Sense of Wonder Night Pocky winner 2022, Tokyo Game Show, Japan

- IndieCade nominee 2022, USA

- Pedagogic Media Award nominee 2022, Germany

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