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2023 · Action · Adventure

Only Up!

Embark on an exciting journey in Only UP! Exploring a huge world full of secrets and mysteries, you have to get as high as possible, and the most interesting starts above the clouds...

Released: 25 May 2023
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action Adventure Casual Indie MMO Platformer Simulation
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Co-op Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish (Spain) and 1 more
Time to beat: 6hmain story

About

Only Up! is a 2023 platformer game developed and published by SCKR Games. It was released on Steam on May 24, 2023, and permanently removed in September of that year following controversy over the use of copyrighted assets. Players control the character Jackie and must reach the moon through a series of obstacles consisting of real-life items.

Only Up! was praised for its difficulty but criticized for its graphics and level design. It was compared to difficult climbing games such as Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. Only Up! became one of the most popular games on Twitch shortly after its release and was nominated for the first Vtuber Awards and The Streamer Awards.

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Gameplay

Only Up! begins in a junkyard where the player character, Jackie, must run, climb, jump, and vault through assorted objects and platforms. Around the map, there are beds the player can use as trampolines to skip portions of the obstacle course. The player must reach the top of the map to win and may slow down time to control Jackie's movements. There are no checkpoints, and the player cannot save their progress.

Reception

Only Up! garnered popularity shortly after its release. By late June 2023, it was among the most popular games on Twitch, a video game livestreaming service, at 85,000 total viewers. Livestreamers and speedrunners shared themselves rage quitting after falling down and losing progress from the absence of a save system.

's gameplay was stressful—which is what made it go viral—and that it was similar to the platform game Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. Ayuo Kawase of Automaton Media praised the "high feeling of tension" players felt while in it. Writing for TechRadar, Elie Gould believed that Only Up! could give the player "a slight adrenaline boost" with the thought that they could lose their progress by making a simple mistake.