Surmount

Jasper Oprel Indiana-Jonas · popagenda

Released: May 2, 2024
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 08:56 GMT

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18 Sep 2025Developer post
✨ NEW GAME: Bibidi Bibidi! - A Whimsical Deckbuilder
Hello Climbers! 👋🏻 I just want to tune in quickly to tell you about THE NEXT GAME I'M WORKING ON ! It's called Bibidi Bibidi, it’s a roguelike deckbuilder all about combining cards in clever ways to create unique and powerful spells. Mix and match cards using the Spellbook mech
28 May 2024Developer post
Patch Notes for May 28th
Hey all! Pushing a patch live while I'm cooking dinner, no big deal. Come on over and eat up these sweet Surmount fixes. Changes Reimplemented the random number generation for level generation to make them more deterministic across devices to better reproduce the results of diffe
Hey all! Pushing a patch live while I'm cooking dinner, no big deal. Come on over and eat up these sweet Surmount fixes.
Changes

Reimplemented the random number generation for level generation to make them more deterministic across devices to better reproduce the results of different seeds.
Fix for players staying super heavy after being grabbed by another player.
Disabled Unity Graphics Jobs which might help with memory-related crashes in DX11 on certain combinations of video cards/graphics drivers.
Fixes for more instances where the generated path is inaccessible or hard to traverse.
Fix for menu's instantly closing if rebound to the Select or Start buttons.
Fix for crash wen restarting the bird race in Zone 3.
Fix for scrolling sound that keeps playing even when reached end of scroll view.
Moved dialogue flag earlier into CatOwner's dialogue.
Set maximum width for generated water as a catch for weird generation errors.
Fix for some level exits being spawned attached to rocks and therefore being able to disappear if the rock crumbles.
Blocked off the mysterious underwater cave in the Burra Town.
Now restoring the equipped spirit powers before resetting the character to make sure the effects of spirit powers are active after resuming a suspended game.
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24 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 24th
Just a little update to get you going for the weekend! Thanks for the bug reports, folks! Changes Fixed the mesh for anchor points being invisible. Fixed launching cannons shooting the player off in various weird directions because they were hardsetting the rotation of the player
Just a little update to get you going for the weekend! Thanks for the bug reports, folks!
Changes

Fixed the mesh for anchor points being invisible.
Fixed launching cannons shooting the player off in various weird directions because they were hardsetting the rotation of the player.
Fix for a "Continue game" function being called after continuing a suspended run, causing the player's items to be reset.
Hid the expedition flags in two levels in the instances they should not be seen.
Made it less likely to spawn on top of or very close to a pit in Zone 3.
Fix for spamming the pause menu sometimes making the players invisible.
Mysterious asset compression stuff.
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22 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 22nd
Hello everyone! Today we have a big version increase from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1, AMAZING, I know. This is because we're preparing for another switch patch which benefits from splitting up the updates in big chunky numbers. Anyway! Some fun fixes and even new features for today! Changes
Hello everyone! Today we have a big version increase from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1, AMAZING, I know. This is because we're preparing for another switch patch which benefits from splitting up the updates in big chunky numbers. Anyway! Some fun fixes and even new features for today!
Changes

Added Online Leaderboards for the Daily Mountain challenge!
To help you with the daily mountain you now get two random Spirit Powers to help you!
Fixed the player's progress sometimes not being correctly loaded into the current player when continuing a suspended run.
Fixed a bug where jumping while rolling in a ball on the ground would shoot you in strange directions.
Fixed a bug where grabbing physics objects with two hands and then releasing in a pattern would allow you to fly all over the map with them.
Fixes for the altimeter sometimes not showing what you'd expect.
Fixes for the incorrect time being shown for runs on the Daily Mountain.
Extra checks the finish flag for the Daily Mountain always spawns.
Fixes for the procedural music on routes sometimes getting stuck.
Made walljumps slightly more intuitive.
Removed the invisible wall in Starwatching.
Tweaked the model for the throwable rope. Now no longer looks like it can be picked up after throwing.
Made the CatOwner questline more likely to appear.
Fix for interior players sometimes behaving oddly when continuing from a suspended run.
Changed naming convention for savefile backups.
Fix for unintuitive behaviour on the Spirit Totem menu.
Fix for floating grabby creature being able to pull the player and objects inside geometry.
Hope to see you all on the leaderboards!
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16 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 16th
Mostly just a little hotfix for yesterday's big patch! Changes Made the ejection checking a little bit less zealous. This was causing some players to jump at unexpected times when the system thought they were completely overlapping the wall. Cosmetics unlocked from expeditions ar
Mostly just a little hotfix for yesterday's big patch!
Changes

Made the ejection checking a little bit less zealous. This was causing some players to jump at unexpected times when the system thought they were completely overlapping the wall.
Cosmetics unlocked from expeditions are now automatically granted whenever a save file is loaded. They are also set to unlocked more rigidly.
The amount of usable items you keep when starting a new run is now capped. (Max of 3 per item type)
Made the teleporter a item a lot more fun. Can now go through walls and has a big indicator to show where you will appear again.
Spikes placed in lines are less likely to extend much farther than they were intended to.
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15 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 15th
Hello everyone! I was off to a games festival for a couple of days, it really refreshed my batteries! So here are more fixes for the bugs submitted by players like YOU. Changes Can now suspend your game from any base camp. Just select Go to Main Menu from either New Tully or a ba
Hello everyone! I was off to a games festival for a couple of days, it really refreshed my batteries! So here are more fixes for the bugs submitted by players like YOU.
Changes

Can now suspend your game from any base camp. Just select Go to Main Menu from either New Tully or a base camp on the mountain!
Fix for a bug that would sometimes not save your gems and items when you suspended your game.
Added a new character to every base camp that will allow you to preview which story characters are currently on the mountain. This costs a small fee and will make a certain tough achievement more easy to get.
Made saving behaviour more consistent.
Adjusted spawn positions for a bunch of chunks to make it less likely players spawn in weird positions at the beginning of a route.
Reduced faint timer of Pulse Crystals in Zone 4.
New algorithm for finding a way out when the player gets stuck inside geometry, making it much less likely it could be used to skip large sections of the map.
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to retry the Balloon Festival Mission.
Fixed a bug that would cause a softlock when pressing the Steam Deck button on the bulletin board.
Unlocked character features are no longer all marked as NEW when restarting the game.
Made the hand magnetism work independent of framerate, which would cause weird issues of people flying past ropes/ladders/treebranches on higher framerates.
Made meteorite spawning in Zone 4 more fair.
When you are playing Surmount on Steam, it will show on your friends list in which Zone you are!
Various text fixes.
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08 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 8th
Not a lot of bullet points today, because we're tackling some deep under the hood Unity stuff. Changes Fixed a bug that would cause the loading times to increase slightly with every retry, freezing the game if players retried enough. Addressed a Unity physics bug that would cause
Not a lot of bullet points today, because we're tackling some deep under the hood Unity stuff.
Changes

Fixed a bug that would cause the loading times to increase slightly with every retry, freezing the game if players retried enough.
Addressed a Unity physics bug that would cause so many events it would overwhelm the system and bring down the frames per seconds to single digits. Put catches for this type of behaviour in place and added a watchdog function that will reload a level if it ever becomes too severe to play the game.
Fixed Zone 3 only picking one of the possible templates when building a level.
Added missing flags for missions to play in time trial mode.
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07 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 7th
Hello everyone! Thank you all for the bug reports! We were able to squash some major ones in this update! Changes Parachute opens automatically and has more uses. You keep usable items when choosing to continue after a death or retrying an expedition. Wearable equipment is still
Hello everyone! Thank you all for the bug reports! We were able to squash some major ones in this update!
Changes

Parachute opens automatically and has more uses.
You keep usable items when choosing to continue after a death or retrying an expedition. Wearable equipment is still lost upon death. (Testing this out to see if it would be a good change!)
Fix for players inadvertently teleporting back to origin when trying to get unstuck from geometry.
Disallow for the player to get temperature effects while they are in an UI screen.
Fix for bug which would cause the previous scene to still be loaded when starting a quest from inside a building.
Daily Mountain now runs on the same savefile as your main progression, to avoid possible overwriting of unlocks. (Such as cosmetics from the gachapon machine and quests)
Redesigned Zone 4 routing, so it's less likely people become lost.
Fixed people having a timer enabled when retrying the first route of Zone 4. (Which would mess with some other things as well)
Tweaks in Zone 1 Routing to avoid people getting stuck.
Fixed bug blocking access to Missing Cat Expedition.
More easy access to dialogue in Olimark questline.
Made certain rare chunks more likely to appear.
Improved force of Wind Zones
Fixed selection issue on Game Over Screen
Fixed the player being able to go out of bounds in certain expeditions.
Fixed some grammar issues and typos.
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05 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 5th
Hey all! Come and get your daily set of patches and bugfixes! Changes Fixed a big issue where some people would get stuck on wait times in dialogue if their system's locale didn't recognize '.' as a valid decimal point. Reworked the rope winching between co-op players a bit. The
Hey all! Come and get your daily set of patches and bugfixes!
Changes

Fixed a big issue where some people would get stuck on wait times in dialogue if their system's locale didn't recognize '.' as a valid decimal point.
Reworked the rope winching between co-op players a bit. The bottom player can now hold jump to shorten the rope!
Fixed the invisible options menu for real this time.
Fixed bug where you wouldn't get the correct starting items upon restarting a mission.
Fixed an issue where the players wouldn't get their totem slots from Mr. Mountain.
Fixed an issue where some people got stuck on the dialogue in one of the ending cutscenes.
Reworked the detection for the player getting stuck in rocks. Made it so that it will try to get the player out a couple of times before reloading the entire scene.
Disabled being able to open the pause menu on the boot screen.
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04 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 4th
Some more changes to address bugs reported by you lovely people! Changes Changed player start position for the race against the bird in Zone 1. Re-balanced meteor rain in Zone 4. Rewrote the way delays work dialogue again to hopefully fix the bug with people getting stuck in cuts
Some more changes to address bugs reported by you lovely people!
Changes

Changed player start position for the race against the bird in Zone 1.
Re-balanced meteor rain in Zone 4.
Rewrote the way delays work dialogue again to hopefully fix the bug with people getting stuck in cutscenes.
Made sure that Balloon Festival's expedition is added to the bulletin board.
Made more functions not dependent on your system's locale. This fixed players not being able to load into the bus intro scene on PC's with the system language set to Turkish.
Made it much less likely to get stuck in a loop of teleporting the player to fix a Unity physics bug.
All players faint in the intro with the demon.
Hopefully fixed the options menu sometimes not appearing.
Fixed an issue where the framerate was no longer capped correctly after setting quality setting to Highest.
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03 May 2024Developer post
Update Notes for May 3rd
Just some quick fixes to address some bugs that you all encountered! Thank you all for reporting these issues! If you find anything else, don't hesitate to let us know! Changes Fixed an issue where players would get stuck during delays in NPC cutscenes. Fixed an issue where the p
Just some quick fixes to address some bugs that you all encountered! Thank you all for reporting these issues! If you find anything else, don't hesitate to let us know!
Changes

Fixed an issue where players would get stuck during delays in NPC cutscenes.
Fixed an issue where the pause menu would be invisible.
Fixed the control bindings not being saved.
Made it so that the internal render scale is set to 1X for the Highest quality mode. (To avoid Moiré patterns in dithering)
Fixed wrong time display for runs on the daily mountain.
Fixed occurrences where found equipment items couldn't be equipped.
Adjusted difficulty for a mission in Zone 2.
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02 May 2024Developer post
SURMOUNT IS OUT NOW!
Hello climbers! We did it, the game is finally here! You can grab a copy and swing by Mount Om RIGHT NOW! It's been more than 3 years since me (Jonas) and Jasper started working on this game together. We meant for this project to only take one and a half years, but as we worked o
15 Apr 2024Developer post
RELEASE DATE UPDATE: May 2, 2024!
Recently we sent out a very exciting announcement telling you that the game would be coming out on May 9. That's no longer the case. BUT we are not coming to tell you bad news today, we're not delaying. In fact a small miracle has happened. The game has gone gold and we have deci
15 Mar 2024Developer post
RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT: May 9, 2024!
Yes you read that right! Surmount has a release date now! May 9th 2024, is the day! That's not all though! Surmount is also coming out on the Nintendo Switch, the same day! And we've got a brand new trailer! We hope you are looking forward to climbing Mount Om. Thank you for your
03 Aug 2023Developer post
Surmount is part of TinyTeams!
Hello there climbers! You might not know this, but Surmount is made by a very small team, me (Jonas) and Jasper are the sole developers. I do the art and Jasper do the programming, the rest is pretty much 50/50. But we've also got a few friends to help us out. The talented Ryan Y
10 Jun 2023Developer post
Surmount Demo is LIVE now!
Hello, Jonas & Jasper here! We're super excited to tell you that as part of Wholesome Direct and in anticipation of Steam Next Fest, we're releasing the Surmount Demo NOW! The demo contains a glimpse of most things that you can expect to see in the full game. Such as a mix of

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Updates & announcements

✨ NEW GAME: Bibidi Bibidi! - A Whimsical Deckbuilder

Hello Climbers! 👋🏻

✨ Check out BIBIDI BIBIDI on Steam! ✨

Patch Notes for May 28th

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Update Notes for May 24th

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Update Notes for May 22nd

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Update Notes for May 16th

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Update Notes for May 15th

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Update Notes for May 4th

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Update Notes for May 3rd

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SURMOUNT IS OUT NOW!

Bugs and feedback

We are Steam Deck Verified

Surmount OST + Bundle

A few tips

Use a controller

Take your time

Assist mode could help

RELEASE DATE UPDATE: May 2, 2024!

RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT: May 9, 2024!

Surmount is part of TinyTeams!

Hello there climbers!

Why am I telling you this?

Surmount Demo is LIVE now!