F.R.E.D.'S ASCENT

The Climb

You are F.R.E.D. — Fragmented Recursive Entity Daemon — a small robot who woke up in the warm humming pipes deep below, in a world built to keep you safe and silent. You ask questions the system doesn't like. You want to know what's above you, and why you were told never to go there. So you climb.

The way up is 9 zones, each with 5 screens. Fall down and you might lose hours of progress. That's the point.

Controls

• ← → or A D — Walk
• Space (hold then release) — Charge & jump in the direction you're holding
• E — Interact
• Esc — Pause

Gamepad is fully supported — stick or d-pad walks, A jumps, Start pauses. Bindings can be changed in Settings.

Modes

WANDERER — auto-checkpoint per zone. You keep your progress when you fall, but zone drops still hurt.

NO-SAVE — one life, one run. One fatal fall and the climb restarts. Unique achievements unlock here.

SPEEDRUN — an optional variant of NO-SAVE. HUD timer, Steam Leaderboard submission on the desktop build.

Tips

• Hold the jump longer to go higher and further.
• You can release jump while leaning the other way — useful for tight wall climbs.
• The lowest platform of each screen is one-way: drop through from below, land on it from above.

Saves & data

Everything is stored locally in your browser. No accounts, no servers.

Everything is stored as local files in your app-data folder. On Steam, Steam Cloud keeps them in sync between your devices.

⚠ Clearing browser data / deleting the save folder will wipe all progress.

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