- Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.85 - Steam Achievements + Cloud Update - 19 May 2025
Hi all, we've released a new patch for the Early Access 0.85 version of Kill The Climbers, introducing Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud Saves! Conquer every challenge in your way and keep progressing anywhere! Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.85 Changelog: New Feature: Steam Achievements - Implemented and added 13 new Steam Achievements. - More achievements may be added throughout the Early Access period and after the 1.00 full release pending additional game content being added. New Feature: Steam Cloud Saves - Implemented Steam Cloud Saving functionality, allowing easier access of saved progress. - Info from Steam: The Steam Cloud allows games and the platform to utilize cloud storage hosted by Steam. Games can utilize Steam Cloud for storage of many different types of data, including game settings, save games, profile stats and other user-specific bits. Many Steam client sett…
- Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.80 - Defenses Update - 23 December 2024
Hi all, we've released a new patch for the Early Access 0.80 version of Kill The Climbers, introducing the Defense Upgrades that make defending your mountain from the climber hordes all the better! Included as a bonus in this update is the newly created Bestiary, which holds valuable information on climber enemies and animal allies... Knowledge is power! Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.80 Changelog: New Feature: Defense Upgrades - Trap 'Quality' Upgrades: You can now upgrade the statistical effectiveness of each trap up to Level 6, which also improves the unique qualities of each trap like its damage, damage over time, and slowing debuff. - Trap 'Quantity' Upgrades: You can now upgrade the number of placeable traps of each type from the default of 1 up to 3. - Traps: While the basic Mountain Traps of Icicles, Bones, and Ice Slicks themselves were already implemented, they've sinc…
- Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch v0.70 - Powers Update - 12 September 2024
Hi all, we've released a new patch for the Early Access 0.70 version of Kill The Climbers, introducing the Climber Powers that make the game more challenging and your climbing foes more powerful! Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.70 Changelog: New Feature: Climber Powers Many climber enemies now have powers that activate passively during gameplay, which become increasingly challenging as they work together to reach the mountain peak! They can fight back against your animal defenders, speed past your defenses, and support one another with auras that affect every other climber on the mountain so long as they live! Take them out early to save yourself some trouble! New Climber Powers: - Master Climber: Speed Boost - Gains +1 Movement Speed for 1 second upon taking damage. - Sherpa Climber: Global HP Boost Aura - Gives +1 HP and Maximum HP to all currently living climbers including its…
- Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.60 - Mini-Boss Update - 29 July 2024
Hi all, we've released a new patch for the Early Access 0.60 version of Kill The Climbers, introducing the more formidable new Mini-Bosses and some other quality of life features! Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.60 Changelog: New Feature: Mini-Bosses Prepare your peaks, a dangerous new threat has emerged on the mountain! Mini-Bosses, an elite variety of climbers that surpass their lesser peers with their strength and fortitude! As they periodically appear during waves, watch out for their signature red color and health bar! They'll be tougher to take down, will do more damage to your mountain's health, and even your mighty Avalanche power won't be enough to easily wipe them away alone! If you can kill them, you'll get bonus score and coins for your efforts! Quality Of Life Features: - New Yeti Automation Setting For your convenience and flexibility of playstyles, you can now auto…
- Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.51 - 27 June 2024
Kill The Climbers Early Access Patch 0.51 Changelog: Hi all, we've released a new patch for the Early Access version of Kill The Climbers, focusing on quality of life features, gameplay balancing, and some bug fixes! With some help from your appreciated feedback and rounds of testing, we think we've been able to improve the game to an even more fun, fair, and playable state! The next patch after this one is planned to feature even more content additions, so look forward to that too! Quality Of Life Features: - Added a 3 second pause after closing the In-Game Upgrade Skill Menu via the 'X', so that players have a bit more time to readjust to the flow of gameplay after upgrading. If you don't want to wait the 3 seconds, you can simply close the menu via 'Q' or 'Tab' to instantly get back into the action. - Added an additional Power Ups button at the Game Results screen to save players fro…
- Kill The Climbers - Now Available in Early Access! - 20 May 2024
Finally, Kill The Climbers is now available on Steam in Early Access! We look forward to showing you our labor of love and would love any feedback through its development to make the game that much more enjoyable for all! Buy now to save 10% off during the next week, and tell your friends to give it a try if they'd like some good arcade action! Please leave a review too, it really helps! We also polished things up some more for this Early Access release, and will be hard at work going forward in fixing bugs, making quality of life improvements, and adding new content in future patches! Please look forward to it! Kill The Climbers Early Access Release Patch 0.5 Changelog: BUG FIXES: - Various fixes and improvements relating to climber enemies, animal defenders, UI/GUI elements, etc. BALANCE CHANGES: - Minor stat rebalances of climbers and animals to improve viability of different playsty…
- Kill The Climbers Demo Patch 1.7 - 11 May 2024
Kill The Climbers Demo Patch 1.7 Changelog: Hi all, this latest patch aims to further add onto, polish, and improve the overall state of KTC's demo! Download the demo, Wishlist our game, and look forward to Kill The Climber's Early Access release on Steam coming very soon! Our game was finally approved by Steam's lengthy build review process, so after a final round of polishing it should be good to go! BUG FIXES: - Various fixes relating to climber enemies, animal defenders, UI/GUI elements, etc. BALANCE CHANGES: - Major and minor stat rebalances of climbers and animals to improve viability of different playstyles and increase overall challenge. KNOWN ISSUES: - Some of the animal defenders may move or attack strangely and in an unintended fashion. - Some animal dens still aren't placed accurately in the Prep Phase boxes and maybe be visually overlapping with others. - Custom mouse curso…
- Kill The Climbers Demo Patch 1.6 - 29 December 2023
Kill The Climbers Demo Patch 1.6 Changelog: Hi all, this latest patch aims to further add onto, polish, and improve the overall state of KTC's demo! Download the demo, Wishlist our game, and look forward to Kill The Climber's Early Access release on Steam coming very soon! We're only waiting on Steam's lengthy build review process, which should hopefully be done over the next month! IMPROVEMENTS: - Added meta progression upgrades called 'Power Ups', purchasable with coins. More will be available in the full version! - Added cooldown numbers above the Dens for all Animal Defenders and the Yeti to indicate when they'll respawn after taking too much damage. - Reduced frequency of the Boss groaning SFX when damaged, making things easier on the player's ears. - Replaced old system tray icon with higher resolution version. - Improved visibility of skill point prompt. - Changed custom cursor c…
- Kill The Climbers Demo Livestream #2 - 15 October 2023
Come watch the developer play the Kill The Climbers demo and chat with us! Today is our second special Next Fest livestream, so check it out this Sunday, October 15th at 6:00 PM - 8:00 EST!
- Kill The Climbers Demo Patch 1.5 - 15 October 2023
Hi all, this latest patch aims to further add onto, polish, and improve the overall state of KTC's demo! Download the demo, Wishlist our game, and chat with us during Steam Next Fest! Kill The Climbers Demo Patch 1.5 Changelog: - Fixed skill point/upgrades bug that caused them to improperly save between runs. - Improved skill point popup, now tracks how many skill points are available to spend, disappears when you have no points, and moved the popup for better visibility. - Improved and more accurate placing of mountain defenses/defenders/dens, they should now be placed more in the center of the boxes. - Added demo version number text in upper right corner of level screen for clarity.
- Kill The Climbers Demo Broadcast - 14 October 2023
Come watch the developer play the Kill The Climbers demo and chat with us! Today is one our special Next Fest streams, so check it out this Saturday, October 14th at 6:00 PM EST!
- Demo Patch 1.4 - 8 October 2023
Hi all, this latest patch aims to add onto, polish, and improve the overall state of KTC's demo! Look forward to seeing Kill The Climbers this week at Steam Next Fest! DEMO PATCH 1.4 CHANGELOG: - Minor balance changes. - Added In-Game Upgrade Level descriptions. - Added Level-Up popup to remind players to spend their available skill points. - Added new 'Game Over' sound. - Added new idle/climbing animations for the Yeti mountain defender. - Added Yeti Snowball throwing SFX. - Added Yeti Dash SFX. - Added avalanche transition from splash screen to main menu. KNOWN ISSUES: - In-Game upgrades and skill points are being saved across playthroughs and/or are starting with existing skill points and skills already upgraded. This is not intended. - The Yeti moves significantly faster diagonally vs the usual NSEW directions. - Mountain 'placeables' icons/sprites aren't placed exactly where the sl…
- Kill The Climbers Demo Released! - 29 September 2023
Our Kill The Climbers game has a new free demo on Steam and Itch.io, play it now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2257560/Kill_The_Climbers/ https://high-cal-games.itch.io/kill-the-climbers **Kill The Climbers - Frequently Asked Questions:** Q: What is Kill The Climbers? A: Kill The Climbers (or KTC) is a retro roguelite arcade game where you play as a mountain and yeti with the goal of defending the peak. Use your quick wits, skillshot-slinging abilities, and animal defenders to Kill The Climbers! Q: How much will KTC cost? A: KTC will likely cost $2.99 during the Early Access period and the price may increase somewhat after the game's full release with the addition of more content. Q: When will KTC be released? A: KTC's tentative Early Access release date will be in Q4 2023, with its full release slated for Q2 2024. A free demo is now available! Q: What platforms will KTC support a…
