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Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2017

Should you play it?

A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

What works

  • Unique challenging gameplay
  • Meaningful philosophical commentary
  • High skill development
  • Rewarding sense of accomplishment
  • Engaging audio narration and music

Things to keep in mind

  • High frustration and difficulty
  • No cooperative or social gameplay
  • Limited environment and content
  • Punishing setbacks with loss of progress
  • Not suitable for casual or impatient players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • 12 bananas

  • GuGu Pizza : Delivering Pizza to the Space Station? Boss, this is just not right!

  • Bouncy Goat Climb

  • Ria's Hook

  • Stilt Fella

  • EDGE

More expressive

Games that feels like Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy but with more self-expression and customization

  • ALTF42

  • Crumble

  • FALLSTRUKTUR

  • Egging On

  • BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien

  • Nihilumbra

More creative

Games that feels like Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy but with more room to create and customize

  • Mushroom 11

  • Promenade

  • The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator

  • Big Hops

  • Cloudbuilt

  • Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

More fantastical

Games that feels like Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy but with more imaginative fiction

  • Windlands

  • Wrongworld

  • Solar Ash

  • Kaze and the Wild Masks

  • Fly'N

  • Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Creativity.

Last update: 03/08/2026