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Crux: The Great Outdoors – Sports Game Review
Crux: The Great Outdoors is a Sports/Puzzle/Sports game from Benjamin Dressler, first launched in 19th April 2022.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 8+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Crux: The Great Outdoors Stand Out
TouchArcade Game of the Week: "Incredibly enjoyable.”
Droid Gamers: “A sequel to possibly the finest climbing puzzler ever created.”
Pocket Gamer: “It’s still a delight.”
Climbing is about carefully planning your route and flawless execution. In Crux you move your hands or feet to a new hold – but each hold will only let you hang on for so long. Find the sequence of moves that get you to the top and execute them! And when you've reached all the tops – beat the highscores by finishing each climb in the fewest possible moves.
- Unique time-based puzzle mechanic: Move hands and feet separately to climb the walls!
- 12 areas with over 70 levels
- Meet the challenge or chill in practice mode
- Beautiful, stylized landscapes & music
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Crux: The Great Outdoors is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th February 2023
Recent improvements include:
- 3 brand new areas!
- 20 new levels!
- New graphics level for high-end phones!
- Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Crux: The Great Outdoors is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Crux: The Great Outdoors on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We actually climb & we absolutely love this game. It may not be exactly like the real thing but its dang close. The puzzle within the game is the same on a real life rock climbing wall/outdoor rock. You have to think which hand to move where, and same goes for your feet. We definitely feel as if this game could/will help us with our climbing. Great stuff.
We are a rock climber, and we think this game is super realistic to the real thing. You can customize pads your character and theres so many different levels. We found out that you can eventually do a dino. We think its a really fun game.
We recently got into climbing in real life and we really appreciate the attention to detail here! Its really fun and challenging. Hope to see a more levels and a level editor soon.
So far so good. Definitely more polished than the amazing original, but we miss having ratings for the climb and so far its a lot easier than the predecessor. Still we love it!!! Update: moving to five stars as the difficulty definitely upped. Getting close to 3 stars on every route.
Quirky, repetitive and annoying. Oh well.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 205.52 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Benjamin Dressler
Last updated: 17th February 2023 | Genre: Sports, Puzzle | Developer: Benjamin Dressler