JUSANT: Climb a Gigantic Vertigo-Inducing Tower in a Bone Dry World in this Beautiful Climbing Game! 

I covered a demo of Jusant a little while ago, but it's just been released and I really loved it. A couple of notes on the video: It may not be obvious in the gameplay, but you climb by using the the left & right controller triggers to grab and release each hand individually (and you use the analog stick to direct your arms). Also, there are some optional notes that you can pick up and read along the way. I didn't want to dwell on the notes for too much tough as they're often quite long and generally just contain little bits of worldbuilding (the environmental and cutscene storytelling is much more important). So if you'd like to read any notes, please pause the video at the relevant moments. Hope you enjoy the climb! :)

Finally a game that fulfills my innate desire to climb a massive monument that pierces the sky

Otherwise known as one of the few climbing games where your protagonist actually brings proper climbing safety equipment.

Moving through the places where people used to live is haunting and quite beautiful

Starts out like Journey... *halfway up the pillar* "Wait, did i turn off the stove?!"

Now the greater question; how will our fearless mountain goat get down?

This is quite beautiful honestly, l really want to play it and just stare at the horizon tbh. Really loving the atmosphere

0:20 it must be a nightmare to remember where you parked your boat

I love the little details in the animation of your character's movements. Like when he adjusts his feet in different positions when standing still in the middle of a climb, or how, when he sees which ledge he is going to climb, he shakes his hand relaxing it before stretching his arm. The art and style is beautiful, the melancholic air and the immersion caused by the ambient sounds is exceptional. Another game to add in the category of pure visual poetry.

Game of the year. finished it in one go, never felt so relaxed playing any other game before. It´s just like a trip to the mountains.

And yet at the very end, one lingering question remains! Boy: "............How the hell do I get down from here?!?!?!"

Very smooth and beautiful graphic and a relaxing gameplay

It's like a semi-realistic Sands of Time. The most obvious game-play feature is that you can't rewind, but at least he has his climbing accouterment. The art style, though, reminded me of Sky: Children of the Light. Oh, and, since the main subject of the game is ascension through climbing, I hope some-one played the Snake Eater Theme on those key moments.

reminds me of Journey (2013) a little bit, feel nostalgic

It looks amazing! The heights are insane and it's quite exhilarating watching the climbing. I can feel my legs trembling when the climber is in precarious situations

the kid has unlimited stamina, titanium fingers, heat and cool resistance, no UV burned skin... and solved the world drough issue.... Wow! this kid is a super hero.... And the music is fantastic.....

What a gorgeous game with such a unique and vibrant world that sparks both interest and imagination!

The climbing animations tho, wow!!

That ending was great, but it very much did sound like all the water in that big orb fell down at once at the very end there, which would have instantly crushed and killed our hero.

An actual Only Up\Getting over it game we only ever need.

played on GP, cause it's not normally my kind of game, but surprised at how addictive this is. the traversing controls remind me of the old Spider-man games before Insomniac dumbed them down. the music interludes are uplifting and environmental sounds are spot on. not being able to just walk off an edge without a rope attached made it very relaxing for a climbing game. animations work great too. really beautiful game all round.

THIS IS THE MOST FASCINATING GAME I'VE SEEN IN QUITE SOME TIME, THANK YOU for 2 hours and minutes of a great game!

Massive sky: cotl vibes

Playing this now. Just stunning. Very original concept too. Love it

Thank you for showing this, it is my dream to make a game about scaling a massive structure, I need to play this and take notes.

Gives me Rime vibes for sure.

At first, I thought this was yet another "Only Up" Boy, was I wrong! What an engrossing game!

Interested to see content like this from this channel! It pains me to see it not be as popular now (quite randomly, too), it's really one of the best RU-vid accounts around for gaming. I love the commentary through game mechanics, it really speaks to the level of professionalism behind the RU-vidr and the developers. I can always trust that the full story will be told in these videos, contrary to most streamers and gamer channels.

What a great soundtrack! It really drew me into the story.

There's something really instantly likeable about the graphics and sound in this game. Not my kind of thing but interesting to watch and hopefully it will sell well.

Crazy how this kid picked up a hobby and decided to make it each one of us' problem

insanely beautiful

So beautiful!

This looks like a peaceful yet challenging game that would be good for decompressing after work.

I've been playing this one since it came out on Gamepass a few days ago and I absolutely love it

Very tall tower... protagonist wears ancient inuit sun goggles... is this Ice Climbers??

Looks fascinating. Very detailed for a game.

This is simply beautiful.😍

best part about this is not having to hear some youtube influencer, hopped up on adderall and god knows what else, blabbing nonstop about nothing during the entire playthru.. this is so refreshing. this game looks cool too, by the way. im surprised i didnt know about it... thanks again for letting the gameplay speak for itself, and not killing us with insane drive, because you are convinced thats how to monetize your content..

Just magical!

this looks so great

Beautiful game.

Happy Halloween!

What a beautiful game!

Love this world-building concept. Looks like "what if the ocean lost it's water"

Happy Halloween Loyalty subscribers And to you as well The Awesome ABG . You're beautiful Beta.

This was a fascinatingly beautiful game.

Preordered and it was freaking awesome. Yes, it's short, but it's worth it.

This has Sky Children of Light/Journey meeting The Last Guardian vibes. I adore it.

Wow...im 61 (not for games) but this is realy beautifull. Even the music. Wow.

The visual on This game is the ultimate beauty

this game is so freaking awesome 😎👍

weee blue shoulder frog !

beautiful 😌

Hermoso trabajo ......genial video juego,los paisajes y la sensacion de vertigo es impresionante

This game was beautiful! The controls could feel a little janky, but it was minor enough that it didn't take away from the experience for me. It reminded me of Rime a little bit. Anyone who played this game and wanted more should check out Rime.

"Great. Now I'm stuck up here."

Very cool.

The art direction and atmosphere remind me an awful lot like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.

Visuals were very good, and the music was excellent. And credit to the devs for keeping most of the brow-beating relatively subtle.

Cool concept of game

The music is so perfect

The ending was amazing. The whales all got to go home😎🖤🐋

the crab at the start was so damn cute. 🥺

This reminds me of the game "Sky: Children of the light"

I want a baby sky whale plushie!

This might get game of the year

You know what would be a cool game concept? Climbing the Tower of Babel from the bottom to the very top where it reaches the vault of heaven. It could be a game just like this where you interact with the various peoples who live on the tower as they constructed it over the course of centuries.

Just the music makes it worth playing

Man random games are my favorite tho :)

Such a pretty game.

Game looks like Disney/Pixar old short films, I very like it. Also, it reminds me Grow home

This game certainly learned the great zoom out camera angles and composition from the early God of War's. Beautiful!

kind of excellent

A great version of this game would be amazing

Beatiful as French animation tradition is

Carry on my wayward son there be peace when you are done lay your weary head to rest don’t you cry no more.

Is it just me, or would a movie of this be intriguing?

5:39 AYOOOOO!…👀😂

This game gives off the same feeling as watching made in abyss.

hell yeah.

Don't want to watch the rest of this video . Want to see the top on my own ... looks amazing !

The puzzles remind me of the old Ico and Prince of Persia games on Playstation.

and now he must go down

5:35 *takes a running start and Sonic the Hedgehog-s through the loop*

Remind me of this sort animated film about a desert and someone invents a machine to make rain. Rain maker might be the name 🤷

Can't wait for the free solo runs...

reminds me of the Rainbow song STARGAZER

The music at the beginning reminds me of Gris.

1:14 Tower of Bound

This game reminds me slightly to Heart of Darkness, like in the platforming and the feeling of discovery of a strange world, but with better graphics and less of the traumatic parts x.x

thanks for the french class

I read that all people climbed down some time ago, and the rain is going to drown entire world back with the ocean. Besides that, its very nice story, i looked it all on fly

Getting vibes of an older indie game called Toren.

Never heard of this 1

what engine is this using? How's the performance?

Would have much preferred this without the cutesy sparkly magical elements, I think they break the truly excellent aesthetic and atmosphere presented in the first few minutes. Still looks like a very fun and engaging game, just disappointed that the austere sci-fi vibes were killed so fast.

so this world only has one planet sized water vapor condenser and the last person who knew how to work it left it on levitate

jusant is the french word for juice ant wich is a liquid made from smashing ants or termites for their liquid wich is fed to moneys and harvested from urine to.. well thats up to you if you know what i mean. :)

Might be the most derivative thing I've seen, but I bet it's god fun too.