Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

About

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a video game developed by QWOP creator Bennett Foddy in which the player plays a silent protagonist in a bucket using a hammer to climb a mountain. The game is peppered with narration from Foddy and features no checkpoints.

History

On September 28th, 2017, Game Trailers uploaded a trailer for Getting Over It.

Getting Over It was released in October 2017 by Humble Bundle as part of their Humble Monthly package, and was released on Steam and iOS on December 6th. In the description of the game on Steam,^[2] Foddy writes: "A game I made For a certain kind of person To hurt them." He also states that the game can be completed "between 2 and ∞ hours" and that "The median time to finish for my playtesters was 5 hours, but the mean was closer to ∞." He calls the game "an homage Jazzuo's 2002 B-Game classic 'Sexy Hiking'," and references the game often in the narration of Getting Over It. The game was very well-received on Steam, where it has a user score of 9/10.

Online Presence

The game has been played by many popular Let's Players on YouTube. PewDiePie released two episodes of himself playing the game, gaining 4.5 and 3.7 million views (episode 1 shown below, top left). Egoraptor played the game on the Game Grumps channel and gained over 719,000 views (shown below, top right). Markiplier played the game on his channel in several episode and gained over a combined 7 million views (episode 1 shown below, bottom right). jacksepticeye also played the game on his channel and gained over 4 million views over two episodes (episode 1 shown below, bottom right).

The game quickly attracted the attention of Speedrunners. Speedrunner Distortion2 completed the game in four minutes and twenty-one seconds in a video that gained over 3.2 million views (shown below, left). YouTuber Lumonen completed the game in two minutes and fifty-nine seconds in a video that gained over 1 million views (shown below, right).

Fan Art

The game has seen some fan art created. Several pieces of fan art appear on DeviantArt, often featuring different characters as the protagonist or a popular Let's Player. An inquiry about some fan art of the game was posted to /r/OutOfTheLoop^[3] on December 27th, 2017.

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