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Kernmantle

Kernmantle is a twin-stick climbing game with exploration, platforming, and light puzzle elements. Control a physics-driven character and scale a 2000-meter vertical canyon filled with challenges, characters…

5 October 2020

Kernmantle is an adventure developed by North of Earth, released 5 October 2020 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Kernmantle is

Kernmantle is an adventure game developed by North of Earth and released in 2020. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity 2019.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In this vertical climbing adventure, you'll scale a two-thousand meter high canyon filled with traps, puzzles, mysteries, and strange characters. Kernmantle is a twin-stick climbing game where a misplaced hand can send you plummeting to your doom and safe spots are few and far between. As you ascend through the canyon's biomes, you'll uncover hidden secrets, overcome deadly hazards, collect items, and fling yourself from one precarious ledge to another. Only the truly persistent will reach the top!
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Kernmantle launched on 5 October 2020, within three weeks of Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact and Mafia: Definitive Edition.

Released around the same time: Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact, Mafia: Definitive Edition.

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When did Kernmantle come out?
Kernmantle was released on 5 October 2020 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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