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However, when I picked up Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy in early 2022, after not playing it for almost a year, I learned the true meaning of comfort through risk - the VERY hard way. Getting Over It is, at its core, a game about taking risks, trial and error, and the value of starting over.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a platform game developed by the titular Bennett Foddy. The game was released as part of the October 2017 Humble Monthly, on October 6, 2017, where it went on to be played by over 2.7 million players. [1]
Getting Over It is an indie game that can best be described as an exploration into frustration and the human condition. Using your mouse, you control a man stuck in a cauldron with only a hammer to aid his Sisyphean climb up an unforgiving mountain as your resolve slowly unravels into madness.
Like most people, I first encountered Getting Over it not long after it was released through streamers and general internet culture. I was immediately intrigued, but the first time I actually played it, like a true Patient Gamer, was in 2020, after I discovered it on sale.
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The popularity explosion seen by Getting Over It was largely due to streamers. People would watch streamers struggle at seemingly easy tasks and want to better them (often discovering that the task is significantly less easy than it appears).