The Ladderman demo
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The Ladderman demo
It plays full screen, in landscape, with on-screen controls. A Bluetooth gamepad works too.
How to climb.
The game shows you each move the first time you need it. Here they all are at once.
| Move | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| Run | ←→orAD |
| JumpHold it to jump higher. | Space |
| LadderIt shoots straight up until it hits something. Also opens and talks. | E |
| ClimbStep off to either side. | ↑↓orWS |
| Drop through a platform | ↓+Space |
| Look up or downHold it. | ↑or↓ |
| PauseSettings, and a retry from the last checkpoint. | Esc |
| Sound on or off | M |
| Fullscreen | F |
Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo controllers all work, and the game shows the right buttons for yours. Shown here: Xbox.On a phone or a tablet the game shows these buttons on screen: the stick on the left, A, X and B on the right, the pause at the top. Menus can simply be tapped, and a gamepad works too.
From the tower to the Wyrm.
A heist that goes wrong, a forest full of secrets and something very big at the end of it.
The Wizard’s Tower
Up the scaffolding at sunset, where you learn the one trick that matters: plant the ladder, climb, repeat.
Sleeping Tower
Inside, a simple two-person job goes wrong, and you leave the tower a lot faster than you came in.
Amberwood
Twenty-one rooms of autumn forest, with gems to find, secret passages, campfires to rest by and a relic for the curious.
The Bone Wyrm
Something very large is asleep under the Heart Tree. Bring your ladder and climb fast.
The climb goes on.
Ladderman is still in the making: there are whole worlds up there, being built right now. Wishlist it on Steam to hear the moment it’s out.