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Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Developer Broken Rules
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a 2022 adventure game developed and published by Broken Rules. It was released for Apple Arcade on iOS, macOS, and tvOS on February 25, 2022, and for the Nintendo Switch and on Windows in May the same year. The game was released for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on June 1, 2023. The game features 2D hand-drawn visuals and is described as an ecological adventure. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
222 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
83
LovedLoved
148 positive · 31 negative
95% range 76–88%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 148 | 31 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 8 | 0 | 34 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
380 of 427 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
83% recommend · 147 yes, 31 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 178 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (512 of 577 positive).
Players praise the game's beautiful art style and emotional story about deforestation. [1][2][3] Some find the swinging mechanics fun but the gameplay repetitive and short. [4][5][6] A few reviewers report frustration with controls and lag. [7][8]
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Representative posts
- [6]
My Playtime: 8.6h (100% achievement, finished the game) Story Mode: 1.4h Liberation: 4.4h Grindy Achievement(s): Yes (~2 achievements). Optional Achievement(s): Yes (14 achievements). Difficult Achievement(s): No. Intro Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a game where you play as a gibbon that is hanging from a tree to the next to travel as far as you can. It has three game modes: story mode, Liberation (endless), and daily …
- [1]
The amount of negative reviews left by literal children and people who need to shoot other players to have fun in video games in absurd. This game is short, simple and spreads a message about how human beings are destroying wildlife. While this message is nothing new, I think the game did exactly what it set out to do which is spread awareness about this horrifying reality that is only getting worse with every day …
- [4]
The game wants to tell us that humans are cruel. But I guess we know that already. Buy the game to be a gibbon for an hour or two and swing from tree to tree. Finished the main story already. But haven't started on the Liberation mode yet. Did I enjoy it? Eh, it was alright. I kinda liked just swinging to move forward until it got repetitive. I'd get it at a discount or in a bundle.
- [3]
Writing this review just as I finished the story mode and tried out the liberation mode. The game does a wonderful job of visual storytelling, conveying effects of ecological destruction and habitat loss through simple shifts in scenery. The story made me a cry for a while. The game play itself is fairly simple, but a little hard to master, especially the parts where you need to gain altitude. I definitely did not …
- [2]
Great game and a stunning art style. Beautiful and tragic story too. ♥♥♥♥ the Oil Industry ♥♥♥♥ the Mining Industry ♥♥♥♥ the Poaching Trade ♥♥♥♥ the Illegal Smuggling and Pet Trades Big love to the Devs for creating this in a space where too few games talk about environmentalism and animal welfare.
Summarised from 34 of the 216 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Gibbon: Beyond the Trees sits at 83% positive across 179 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees received mixed or average ratings, scoring 63 out of 100 on Metacritic, with reviewers praising its beautiful visuals and ecological message, but being divided on its controls, short length and repetitive gameplay. Some also reported performance issues on the Nintendo Switch version, noting a stuttering frame rate in some areas. The game won several awards, namely the Apple Design Award for 'Social Impact', the 'International Award' at Bitsummit 2022, the Digital Viking Award 2023 for 'Best Art Style', the 2022 Pedagogic Media Award in Germany, and a Webby Award for 'Social Impact' in the games category. It also earned a number of nominations, such as for 'Game…
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Reactions
60 of 222 · most liked firstHonestly never thought I'd find myself rooting against my GUYS of USA HOCKEY. but THEIR embrace of the orange SHYTE GIBBON, USA TEAM GM BILL GUERIN took a phone call pre game tonight from the fat 🍊 shyte bird. #LETSGOCANADA
neutral · AI labelView post →Spencer Tillman, calling the Ohio/Nebraska game, just quoted Edward Gibbon (or "Gibbons" but let's give it to him)
neutral · AI labelView post →Meanwhile, in New York, nobody is going to sleep. Mamdani really did the impossible. 53 years in the making, the New York Knicks won, and he is at the helm. The only time the Knicks lost in this series was when the Orange Gibbon attended the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →The amount of negative reviews left by literal children and people who need to shoot other players to have fun in video games in absurd. This game is short, simple and spreads a message about how human beings are destroying wildlife. While this message is nothing new, I think the game did exactly what it set out to do which is spread awareness about this horrifying reality that is only getting worse with every day that goes by.. With a short campaign/daily runs/liberation mode, This is an easy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My Playtime: 8.6h (100% achievement, finished the game) Story Mode: 1.4h Liberation: 4.4h Grindy Achievement(s): Yes (~2 achievements). Optional Achievement(s): Yes (14 achievements). Difficult Achievement(s): No. Intro Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a game where you play as a gibbon that is hanging from a tree to the next to travel as far as you can. It has three game modes: story mode, Liberation (endless), and daily run. Pros: - Great storytelling that tells you the story without words most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing this game, I honestly feel hopeless and frustrated. I really struggled to nail down the game mechanics and spent most of the time on the ground. Even once I got the hang of it, the game was laggy and, you guessed it, meant that I was back on the ground. I wish there was an option that allowed you to move backward. Sometimes I'd just miss the next swing by a hair, and it would have been nice to walk 3 steps back and try again. The story is good, but it is very sad. I appreciate…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We make videogames and tabletop games! Follow us on our journey to make and market our first Steam game Fortune & Famine and our first card game Gibbon Take. www.simeousbusiness.com #followfriday #indiegames #boardgames #indiedev
neutral · AI labelView post →tells a sad story, bring awareness to a REAL BIG problem (seriously i googled it and theres only around 37 GIBBONS LEFT! IN THE WORLD!) while making a great movement mechanic, wrapped in good storytelling by putting the player in the perspective of a gibbon. 10/10 satisfying ending btw not sad af
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Check out our setup at the Cleveland Gaming Classic. Showcasing both Fortune & Famine Digital Version (40% off on Steam) and Gibbon Take; a fast-paced, take-that, party game, Kickstarting in 2026. Www.gibbontakegame.com #clevelandgamingclassic #boardgames #indiedev #familygames #gibbontake
neutral · AI labelView post →Willie Crawford batting, Joe Gibbon pitching, Johnny Bench (!!) catching, Manny Mota scored the game-winner Dodgers entered 11th down two to the Reds: single E1 on sac bunt wild pitch strikeout HBP (tying run scored) 6-2 force out catcher's interference www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LA...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this game. I love being a gibbon. this is so wonderful. It's so beautiful. I love the story of the gibbons. I love to swing in the tree as a gibbon. It's so so so beautiful. I love the forest and animals and the magnificent gibbons I love gibbons. Its so fun to be a gibbon and swing in trees and different places as a gibbon. I felt so much emotion in this game . I felt so gibbon. Very beautiful gibbon game 10/10 would recommend plus it gives you gibbon fun facts which is even better.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Made me "adopt" a Gibbon through Gibbon Conservation Society - good job :D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game and a stunning art style. Beautiful and tragic story too. ♥♥♥♥ the Oil Industry ♥♥♥♥ the Mining Industry ♥♥♥♥ the Poaching Trade ♥♥♥♥ the Illegal Smuggling and Pet Trades Big love to the Devs for creating this in a space where too few games talk about environmentalism and animal welfare.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game wants to tell us that humans are cruel. But I guess we know that already. Buy the game to be a gibbon for an hour or two and swing from tree to tree. Finished the main story already. But haven't started on the Liberation mode yet. Did I enjoy it? Eh, it was alright. I kinda liked just swinging to move forward until it got repetitive. I'd get it at a discount or in a bundle.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven't used any of them, but your formatting is displaying all goofy:  So I'm just going to make that easier to read: - Canvas - https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms - Gibbon - https://github.com/GibbonEdu/core - ILIAS - https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS - INGInious - https://github.com/INGInious/INGInious - Learnhouse - https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse - MediaCMS -…
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazing. Simple, pretty visuals, and simple mechanics, and a gripping story that has no words and still caused me to gasp out loud at least twice. Frustrating, but for the right reasons, spoilers regarding that below. There are portions of this where you will get frustrated that you can not reach areas that you want to. The game sets this up well, allowing you ample time to grow accustomed to your freedom among the jungle canopy before locking you in the stuffy confines of human developments.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Personally I’ve always loved how they don’t show you people. Their pilot descriptions in the arena have always made you use your imagination as to what they’d look like. Along with the emblem design/AC. But yeah a lot of mats are larger than people think. In-game the Gibbon is even a little taller.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching gutsick Gibbon argue with people who don’t believe in evolution is like watching a adult play a game with a kid but the kid keeps changing the rules of the game
neutral · AI labelView post →Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a very good adventure game where you play as a gibbon and swings from tree to tree, do backflips, etc. The graphics are cutes and beautiful and the ambiant is so cozy. I recommend it!!! 💗🐒💗
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A bunch of monotonous swinging sequences that drag on way too long with a cliche story
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's really boring with a very dull and repetitive gameplay loop. It looks nice and it has a story, so that's good. I guess my expectations were too high for this one. It's so boring that I don't even want to grind for the easy achievements. There's barely anything here to hold the attention of people who like parkour games, and for people who don't like parkour games this is a must-skip.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The swinging mechanic is great, and you can tell the developers really cared for the product and message. Unfortunately, movement/traversal felt mostly frustrating to me. + Great swinging mechanic + Branching traversal routes (always left to right, but branching and joining vertically) + Mostly great graphics, rich level design and background world * Although it becomes a bit ridiculous story-wise, well executed message and (in the middle) atmosphere - Frustrating after the initial jungle area…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dance the Orangutango in Gibbon Take: A Primate Party game. Play it this weekend at #ancientcitycon and follow our KICKSTARTER! gibbontakegae.com #boardgames #art #family games #orangutan
neutral · AI labelView post →Behind the scenes of Gibbon Take: A Primate Party Game. Watch as we bring the Chimp Cha Cha to life, from sketch to final art. Back Gibbon Take on Kickstarter the summer. GibbonTakeGame.com #boardagmes #familygames #art #artprocess #chimpanzee youtube.com/shorts/Mm2MD...
neutral · AI labelView post →A beautiful little game with a sad story and a message that gets more relevant with each passing year. The gameplay is fun but pretty simple. I gets repetetive, so that this is a pretty short game feels fitting. It does not overstay its welcome and tells the story effectively in this time. There is also a post-game mode after the story, which is fun but personally it cant grab me enough to do the entirety of it, especially since you can only go forward and don't turn around, so if you missed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So much mindless fun in the beginning! It’s literally just swinging through the trees and then BOOM! Everything comes crashing down and I’m stress leaping through the fires of the forest while achievement hunting. Overall, brilliantly unique and a fun, thought provoking experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To a user named "File". We have been opps for about a month now. You get outrageous scores every single night, and I find myself competing with a brick wall. I will find your account, I will scour your hours played, and I will beat you. So far I have beaten your record 3 times. Twice was when you yourself messed up. This proves to me that you are still human. But someday, dear File, I WILL beat you every night. Love, your secret admirer and opp SadBulldog
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just in case you're keeping score of whom our Great Orange Gibbon (GOG) has been suing or threatening to sue. (And a bit late in the game for the NYT to atone for its non-stop GOG normalizing, but whatever...)
neutral · AI labelView post →No game has ever made me feel more hatred and given me such blood thirst. 9/10 -no way to slaughter any of the really evil humans hoping there will be a weapons update
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Endearing art style, emotional story, educational facts, and my favorite animal!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Gibbon: Beyond the Trees" casual and relaxing but short game, from the same Austrian indie developers that gave us the beautiful "Old Man's Journey". Gibbon has the same level of amazing art. The story is decent, touching on sensitive deforestation issues. The main story is fairly short and can be completed in 2 hours. The Liberation mode adds replayability and daily leaderboard was a nice addition. Yet many complain that the price is a bit steep for the amount of content. Full price $13, on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the verdant canopies of the ancient Asian rainforests, where the symphony of nature hums a tune of untouched wilderness, the gibbons reigned with a grace unmatched by their primate cousins. This story, woven from the whispers of leaves and the songs of the forest, tells why the gibbons are regarded as the best of apes. Gibbons, the acrobats of the arboreal world, swing with an elegance that turns the dense forest into a grand theater of aerial performance. Their mode of locomotion, called…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks nice, but otherwise it's boring and pedantic. The gameplay novelty wears off after 10 minutes and 30 minutes later you wonder why you're still playing. This is one of those titles that pretends to be a game until people realize that its gameplay is literally less dynamic than Pong, at which point it becomes an "experience" instead. It's the kind of experience in which the dev team feels compelled to inform us before we've even started playing that their trite and shallow observations on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate so much that I'm marking this as "not recommended" because it's such an important message and the art is beautiful. But I don't recommend it as a game because it's not--it's a PSA you can play. There's a beautifully sad storyline but you have approximately three moves and no control over direction--you keep going no matter what, which is irksome when it comes to the second half of rescuing creatures because if you pass right over them, welp, too bad. The mechanics are fine, just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautiful art style and a noble cause, but as a game, I can't recommend it, sorry ☹ The gameplay loop is repetitive, and I loathe tedious achievements, especially when they depend on RNG.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today's game is Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, a traversal game that also seeks to raise awareness about Gibbons and the dangers to their habitats. Thanks again to Broken Rules for gifting me a copy of this game so I could stream it back in 2022. #promoted www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvy...
positive · AI labelView post →From the videos I was expecting a platform game and/or maybe mouse-aimed swinging game. This is more like one of those "runner" games, but instead of pressing one key to jump, it's mostly holding one key to not fall and *letting go* to jump. I like platform games and mouse-aimed swinging games. I don't like single button runner games, or even, in this case, games with two buttons that don't really have much behavioral difference between them. To be fair, a bit later it also introduces a third…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I swing like gibbon, so fun and exhilarating. I swing while noticing there're less trees to swing on, concerning. I swing past humans, curious. Humans start shooting at me, doomed..? Really felt so free in the beginning, made me feel so much joy When the scenery started changing, there was much tension and suspense My heart was broken, but hope still remains. The swinging mechanics take time to get used to, and getting stuck at the ground can be demotivating, but once I figured out how to do…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love gibbons, but this didn't vibe with me. There might be more to the game later but 20 minutes of just swinging to move right wasn't enough to keep me entertained.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gibbon: Beyond the Trees Such a good game, and it was so obviously made with a passion for conservation. It's short and sweet, and the movement feels amazing.
positive · AI labelView post →Gibbon will murder you first if you don't take a proper vacation when the next game is out.
neutral · AI labelView post →33. Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (Switch, 2022) A beautiful game with a beautiful message. I played the physical edition on my Switch Lite, which was a lovely experience. If only there weren't so many framerate issues!
neutral · AI labelView post →Doubleheader Game 2 Pirates (79-81) - 000 201 010 - 4 10 2 Braves (75-85) - 002 302 00x - 7 14 1 Gibbon, Face (6), McBean (8) and McFarlane; Sadowski, Hoeft (8) and E. Bailey W-Sadowski (9-12) L-Gibbon (9-20) HR-Mathews (30)
neutral · AI labelView post →👾 Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (🇦🇹 2022) Game that raises awereness of the endangered species of simians and the human exploitation of the rainforest. Gameplay wise is too simple and risks making us falling into boredom, luckily it manages to raise interest with minor plot devices. 🎮 Played on Steam Deck Rating: 🐵🐵🐵▫️▫️
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Writing this review just as I finished the story mode and tried out the liberation mode. The game does a wonderful job of visual storytelling, conveying effects of ecological destruction and habitat loss through simple shifts in scenery. The story made me a cry for a while. The game play itself is fairly simple, but a little hard to master, especially the parts where you need to gain altitude. I definitely did not expect to like the game as much as I did, but I'm happy that I gave it a try!…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →gameplay baaaad
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →yes its a good game yes the message and story is nice but the gameplay is meh to my opinon
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautiful, moving game with an important message. Easy controls, great for new gamers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game really takes you beyond the fun and smoothly-engineered activity of swinging in the trees. It is a visual art piece explaining the reality of what gibbons have been going through as deforestation and poaching spread throughout the world. The art is this game was fantastic, especially when paired with the music. There wasn't a single zoom-out scene I could go without taking a screenshot. The colors and the layering of the various objects really made for some great eye candy. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a lovely "one button" game. Colorful, easy for the mind and soul, has nice animal noises and music, it is short but meaningful. Should be played by more people, so they could be aware of it's message! These animals have feelings and they are as important as ours!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reform and Tories engaged in a bizzarre game of Happy Families. "We'll give you Cllr Kathy Gibbon, who represents Bierton, Kingsbrook and Wing, if you will give us the former Immigration Minister and the Former Home Secretary."
neutral · AI labelView post →Nice little game for a quiet evening with an interresting "real world" element within it. Love the feelings to navigate the beautifully drawn environment.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pit 110 022 020 - 8 StL 000 002 000 - 2 WP-Veale (7-7, 5.71) LP-Reuss (0-5, 5.72) S-Gibbon (1) Odd stuff on pre-All-Star weekend: Gibson and Carlton appeared in the game, neither as a starting pitcher. Carlton actually pitched in this game irl, Gibby pinch hit (he did it 5 times in 1970).
neutral · AI labelView post →youtube.com/shorts/fO3CN... Gibbon Take is a family-friendly card game where you play pairs of dancing primates to win fruit tokens, but beware the Gibbon! Follow our journey at gibbontake.simeousbusiness.com #cardgames #indiedev #familygames #boardgamecommunity #boardgamedesign
neutral · AI labelView post →>get stoned >put on some music >start playing liberation mode >profit
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is a very long tutorial of swinging across the trees.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. Easy to learn the basics but you can improve a lot as you keep playing and it feels amazing once you start to really master it. Movement can feel very fluid, it is almost of hard to explain. Story is really short, but I liked it. Plus there is an endless mode if you want to keep playing. My favorite part about the game is that every day there is a short level with limited time to see how far you can get and there is a leader board to see how you do compared to others. I keep coming…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mmmmmm...... Monke...... In all serious though. This is a pretty good game. The swinging is fun, the story is good and I the message quite moving.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gibbon: Beyond the trees feels like a breath of fresh air among the mass of games that try to be longer and bigger and more complicated with each release. It combines a fluid movement system with breathtaking visuals and a profound message without overstaying it's welcome. The hour it took me to complete the story was well paced and kept me immersed most of the time; swinging along trees, vines, rooftops and powerlines creates an incredible flow, with moments of pure zen as well as tension and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just a political statement disguised as a mediocre game with extremely simplistic controls and a predictable story (which I completed in just this one hour of game time). It feels like a mobile game port. I seriously do not get the praise this thing is receiving.
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