Climbing Gym Manager

Build the climbing gym of your dreams, set the walls, and watch your community grow.

Climbing Gym Manager is a cosy management sim about running a climbing gym. You design every wall and every corner of the building, reset the routes, and look after the people who come through the door. Every visitor is simulated on the wall. They queue at the desk, pick a problem, fall off it, try again, and tell their friends what they thought of your setting.

Design it your way

• Shape your walls in the Centre Builder: slabs, verticals, overhangs, inside and outside corners, and custom panels that change angle as they go up

• Fit out the whole centre: reception, café, gear shop, shoe hire, gym, toilets, hold room and seating

• Give your strongest climbers somewhere to train: fixed boards, an adjustable LED board, a campus board and a spray wall

• Add the extras that keep people around after their session: a physio room, a pool table and table tennis

• Paint the walls and mats in your own colours, then expand the hall as the business grows

Set the walls

• Split your walls into zones and reset them one at a time

• Pick the grade spread and styles your climbers are asking for

• Book your Head Setter or one of this week’s guest setters, then watch them strip and set problem by problem behind the barriers

• Fresh walls bring climbers in. Stale ones send them across town

A gym full of people

• Every check-in is a climber you can follow, with their own grade, mood and story

• Friends take turns and cheer each other on, and training crews claim the boards on their evenings

• Run youth groups and adult Beginner, Improver and Expert classes

• Take control of any member and climb as them in first person. The more they climb, the stronger they get

• Build a team of your best climbers and take them through the competition season, all the way to the World Series

Run the business

• Set your prices and grow your memberships

• Keep the café and shop stocked between delivery days

• Hire setters, desk staff, coaches, a physio and a maintenance worker, and keep them happy

• Win your reputation one review at a time

• Watch out for Ascendia, the rival gym across town that would love to hire your best staff

• Nate, a gym manager who has seen it all, is on hand with advice when you need it

Play your way

• Story: start with a small training gym, open your doors to the public and work your way up to a big climbing centre, while juggling bills and breakages

• Free play: everything unlocked and money to spare. Build whatever you can imagine

• Realistic: for players who want tax, bills and the seasons to bite