App: Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Developer: Broken Rules
Genres: Games, Adventure

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:
- 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
- Indie Arena Booth: Selection 2022, Germany

Release notes:
Escape the new hawk-eagle in our improved Liberation mode!

– Can you escape the new bird of prey that hunts Lilac?
– – Stay alert: The hawk-eagle now appears during Liberation mode and can kill our gibbons!
– Take a break in our gibbon's family tree to celebrate whenever you free 10 animals.
– – This improves the overall rhythm of longer runs in Liberation mode. 
– Added five new levels to Liberation and Daily Run mode.
– – Slide through more industrial areas in plantation!
– – Can you make it over a burning landfill in the town?
– Added a new achievement for escaping the hawk-eagle multiple times.
– Many visual improvements and bug fixes.