Surmount

Surmount is a story about an aspiring esports player whose dream ends in their final year of high school, just as they are about to reach it. After accepting a coaching offer from their former team, you take on the challenge of creating another esports miracle with its players.

Build your team

Meet players in person through interviews, learn what they are like, and choose from 15 players with distinct characteristics to form your team. Develop their basic attributes and train them in new classes to unlock different tactical lineups. You also improve your coaching skills and build varied strategies to give the team an advantage.

Coach and compete

Before each match, you lead an intelligence war: assess the changing conditions and prepare a strategy. The team moves from tournament to tournament, improving its standing in each round of the regular season as it competes for a place in the finals. Randomly generated game elements make each match different, with luck also playing a part.

Life on and offline

You balance your roles as coach, student and online game player. Attend school, visit places such as internet cafes, board game halls and food courts, meet new people, and enter the online game world to travel and complete tasks. Moving between everyday life and the game world also lets you explore the players’ inner lives and the question of which side is their true self.

Relationships

Relationships can deepen from friendship and acquaintance to greater familiarity and romance. There are 18 romanceable characters: 12 can begin romance relationships, while the remaining 6 are described as becoming available during the Early Access period. Characters from opposing teams can also become romance options, and you can pursue multiple characters at once before deciding whom to choose.