Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy makes no bones about the fact that it’s infuriating and hardly anyone has completed the game on Steam. However, an important milestone was reached in the speedrun scene, which also makes the game look really easy.
What is Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy? In Getting Over It you play a person in a cauldron who, armed with a large hammer, tries to climb a mountain. The only thing you use in the game is the mouse, which you use to control the character’s hammer.
Getting Over It may have been around for a few years, but due to its difficulty and the associated potential for anger, streamers continue to face crazy challenges to the game years later.
Why is Getting Over It so hard? The game is mainly based on constant repetition, because you will often fail, fall down and have to start from the beginning.
You fight mainly against the controls. You only have to use the hammer and the game physics to try to move the figure in the pot up. A big frustration factor when you get caught in trees or cliffs, for example, or when you can’t even pull yourself up or push yourself up.
You can see a trailer for Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy here:
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy – Trailer for one of the hardest games on Steam
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The players love the frustration
The developer himself writes about his game on Steam: A game I made. For a certain type of person. To hurt them. An accurate description because if you look at the achievements on Steam, you can see that only 8.4% of all players have completed the game.
The game’s playing time is also estimated on its own Steam page to be between 2 and infinite hours. Players also tagged the game as “psycho-horror” and among the reviews on Steam, many users describe their experiences with Getting Over It:
The players seem to love the game precisely because of its high degree of difficulty and the high potential for frustration. The more than 83% of positive reviews also reflect this perception.
The faster the better
No matter how hard a game might be, almost every game looks foolproof in speedruns. And the speedruns for Getting Over It also present it as a bed of roses that you can easily play through in a few minutes.
How popular is Getting Over it as a speedrun game? The speedrun community in Getting Over It is large. On Speedrun.com, the game is the 9th most-run game, beating icons like Super Mario World and Ocarina of Time.
The magic hurdle in the Glitchless Speedrun category was the 1 minute hurdle. For years no one managed to complete the game in under 1 minute. At least until Blastbolt came along and hit a new milestone in April and beat the game in 59.885 seconds.
You can see Blastbolt’s world record here:
An “Old School RuneScape” player, on the other hand, shows that you can also set a speedrun record with 771 hours.
In the comments to his video, Blastbolt is hailed like a hero:
Why is this speed run so special? The success of this speedrun is so spectacular because the strategies haven’t changed since the first speedrun in 2017. The path remains the same, only the technique, the precision and the skills of the players increase.
The time when milestones were broken in Getting Over It is also exciting. While there were only 3 months between the first record of 08:47 minutes and reaching under 2 minutes, the 1-minute mark was only broken after 5 years.
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