Overview
Apple Design Award Winner 2022
A beautiful new adventure by multiple award winning developers of Old Man’s Journey and ELOH, in which a family of gibbons finds themselves lost in a dangerous world beyond their understanding.
- Experience free-flowing dynamic movement based on brachiation, the way real gibbons swing through the trees - Master acrobatic moves, including launching from another gibbon’s hands in mid air - A touching adventure of a family of gibbons trying to survive amid an encroaching human threat. - Play through an hourlong adventure in story mode, or race to freedom through a procedurally generated jungle in liberation mode. - Compete in the leaderboards and see how far you can swing, backflip and slide in Daily Run mode! - Stunning 2D hand painted visuals that breathe life into a rapidly vanishing world. - Explore varied environments, from the wild jungles of Southeast Asia to the hectic human world beyond. - Collect all encyclopedia entries and find out more about gibbons and their habitat. - Gibbon: Beyond the Trees deals with challenging but acute environmental topics, including deforestation, poaching and climate change.
Accolades: - BAFTA Games Awards: Game Beyond Entertainment nominee 2023, UK - D.I.C.E Awards: Mobile Game of the Year nominee, 2023, USA - Apple Design Award: Social Impact winner 2022, USA - Bitsummit: International Award winner 2022, Japan - Sense of Wonder Night: Pocky Award winner 2022, Tokyo Game Show, Japan - IndieCade: Visual Design nominee 2022, USA - Japan Prize: Digital Media Division first runner-up, 2022, Japan - D&AD Awards: Digital Design, Illustration, Shortlist, 2022, UK - Pedagogic Media Award: Winner 2022, Germany
App Store
- Developer
- Broken Rules
- Genre
- Adventure
- Devices
- iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV
- Version
- 1.10.3
- Size
- 999 MB
- iOS
- 15.0+
- Released
- Feb 25, 2022
- Updated
- Oct 26, 2026
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TR
What's new
We swung back in with a fresh update to keep Gibbon running smoothly:
- Added a quick retry to the Sprint Challenge, so you can jump straight back in after a run - Added new Game Center Activities - Fixed a bug with the soft restart in the Endurance Challenge - Fixed missing characters in some languages - Updated the engine and modernized things under the hood for better stability and compatibility
Verified from
Controller support for Gibbon: Beyond the Trees was confirmed from the App Store listing:
- App Store Controller badge Supported
- App Store Game Controllers capability PlayStation, Xbox, or MFi controllers
