Fit check
Is Gibbon: Beyond the Trees worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players interested in short, story-led adventures about family and environmental threats
- Fans of games centered on swinging and acrobatic movement through natural environments
- Players who enjoy leaderboard challenges and collecting informational entries
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a long narrative campaign, since story mode lasts about one hour
- Players who prefer a fixed sequence of environments, since liberation mode uses procedural generation
- Players looking for a story focused on themes other than wildlife and environmental threats
Our take on Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
The game foregrounds a family journey and environmental themes, but its story mode lasts about one hour. Liberation and Daily Run provide additional ways to play, with an emphasis on reaching freedom and competing over distance rather than extending the narrative.
What is Gibbon: Beyond the Trees?
Move through jungle canopies by swinging between branches, sliding, somersaulting and launching from another gibbon’s hands.
Story mode follows a family searching for a home amid threats including deforestation, poaching and climate change; the narrative lasts about one hour. Liberation mode offers a procedurally generated jungle and a race to freedom. Daily Run mode adds leaderboard competition over how far a run can go. Hand-painted 2D environments range from Southeast Asian jungles to human areas. Collectible encyclopedia entries provide information about gibbons and their habitat.
How Gibbon: Beyond the Trees plays
- 01Canopy movement
- Traversal combines branch swinging, sliding and aerial rotations through jungle routes.
- 02Gibbon launches
- Another gibbon can provide a midair boost to send the character higher or farther.
- 03Story mode
- A roughly one-hour journey follows a gibbon family trying to survive and find a home.
- 04Liberation mode
- Procedurally generated jungle courses frame runs as races to freedom.
- 05Daily Run
- Daily runs include leaderboard competition based on how far the gibbon travels.
- 06Habitat encyclopedia
- Collectible entries provide information about gibbons and their habitat.
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees compared to similar games
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees centers on canopy movement, a short environmental story and procedurally generated runs. SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER is also described as a runner, but its description emphasizes shooting, jumping, dodging and destroying enemies rather than gibbon traversal.
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees: platforms & release
Is Gibbon: Beyond the Trees worth it?
It is worth it if: players interested in short, story-led adventures about family and environmental threats. Skip it if: players seeking a long narrative campaign, since story mode lasts about one hour.
Where can I download Gibbon: Beyond the Trees?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Gibbon: Beyond the Trees's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Gibbon: Beyond the Trees on?
Windows and macOS.
