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Celeste

Celeste is a precision platformer about Madeline climbing Celeste Mountain, developed by Maddy Makes Games. Each screen is a self-contained challenge built around tight jumping and dashing mechanics, with a narrative about anxiety and self-doubt that develops through dialogue and environmental storytelling. An Assist Mode lets you modify game speed and dash count, making it accessible without removing the default challenge.

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Celeste

Steam reviews

143,806 of 147,642 Steam user reviews are positive (97.4%) and Steam's own label is “Overwhelmingly Positive”, according to Steam's review summary for Celeste at the last data refresh.

Good for

  • Players who enjoy difficult precision platformers with a fair-feeling death loop
  • Those interested in games that address mental health themes in a non-heavy-handed way
  • Players who want flexible difficulty via Assist Mode without losing the core game
  • Speedrunners — the game has an active speedrunning community

Avoid if

  • You find repeated failure on difficult jumps fundamentally unfrusting rather than satisfying
  • You want a game-length proportional to $19.99 — the main game is 6-8 hours
  • You are epilepsy-sensitive — flashing lights appear in certain story sequences
  • You play only for story and find platforming mechanics secondary

Is Celeste an indie game?

Yes. Steam lists Celeste under the "Indie" genre, and its publisher is not on this site's major-publisher list.

  • Steam genre tags on record: Action, Adventure, Indie — includes "Indie".
  • Developer: Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd..
  • Publisher: Maddy Makes Games Inc. — not on this site's major-publisher list.

The rubric, its limits and the publisher list: methodology.