Version 0.009 · 2026-10-17
Knot Quite There.
A physics playground about getting over things, together. Vault boxes with a pole, throw a grappling hook over walls, and haul your friends up after you.
Free · 18.1 MB zip
Windows 10 or 11 · version 0.009
Getting started
Three steps, no installer
Unzip it
Right-click the zip, choose Extract All, and open the KnotQuiteThere folder.
Run KnotQuiteThere.exe
Windows may say “Windows protected your PC” because the game isn’t signed by a big publisher. Click More info, then Run anyway. If the firewall asks, allow it: that’s how your friends connect.
Play with friends
Click Play with friends. One of you hosts and copies the friend code; everyone else pastes it into Join a game. Everyone needs the same version (it’s shown in the corner of the menu).
What’s in it
Get over everything
A pole to vault with
Run, lower it, plant it and ride it up and over. Leap off the top for a little more.
A rope and a grappling hook
Swing the hook and throw it over walls, onto limbs, round corners. Then climb it, swing on it, or pull it in.
Haul your friends up
Dig in at the top and pull a friend up the wall after you. Or anchor the rope while they climb.
Climb the trees
Loop the rope round a trunk and climb, all the way up to the first limb.
Up to 10 friends, no server
One of you hosts and sends the others a code. They connect straight to you, and can join any time, even mid-game.
No lag, no snapping back
Everyone's game runs the same simulation from everyone's controls, so what you see is exactly what your friends see.
Drop out, drop back in
Lose your connection and your character waits right where you left it, still hanging on. Reconnect and carry on.
Always up to date
The game checks for a new version when it starts and tells you, with a link straight back here.
Controls
The short version
The full list is in the game under How to play, and in the How to play.txt that comes in the zip.
- WASD · Shift · Space
- move, run, jump
- E / Q
- pick up / drop the pole or the rope
- Scroll · hold left click
- grappling hook · swing it, let go to throw
- Left / right click
- pull the rope in / let it out (on it: climb up / down)
- Hold back + pull
- dig in and haul a friend up
- H · C · Tab
- a buddy holds your rope · get on the rope · players
The older browser version is still at /scramble, for solo play.