Only Up! is the latest Twitch sensation, with the game becoming a goldmine for streamers thanks to its high risk gameplay which can see players lose tonnes of progress in a matter of seconds.
Only Up! launched in May 2023, and just over a month later is a Twitch sensation – with the game having 78.6K followers on Twitch at the time of writing. The game places you in the shoes of Jackie, a teenager who wants to escape their poverty-stricken hometown and seeks to climb as high as possible. Thankfully the world is filled with nonsensical floating objects to facilitate this with railway lines and pipes suspended in the air for whatever reason. You can watch Mirror Gaming's Nathan Bliss and Matthew Aldus tackle the game over on the Mirror Gaming YouTube channel to get a better idea of just what Only Up! has to offer.
The game thrives on player frustration by allowing you to climb as high as possible only for you to make one wrong step and fall all the way back to the ground and lose potentially hours of progress. Anyone who played Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy will know exactly the type of sheer frustration we're talking about.
The game hasn't been without controversy, however, as Kotaku reported the game was breifly taken off of Steam late last week due to using assets that were listed as free to use as long as they weren't used for commercial purposes (which obviously includes selling a game). PC Gamer also reported that the game is being used to promote NFTs with various images featured in the game being from specific NFT series.
Are Only Up! PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch ports coming?
Only Up! came out on PC in late May 2023 and is the first project from SCKR Games, who seem to be a relatively small team considering the games frequent use of prebuilt assets.
As far as we can tell, Only Up! isn't coming to PS5, Xbox, or Nintendo Switch anytime soon as SCKR Games hasn't commented on potential console ports. And considering that the game doesn't even have proper controller support on PC at the time of writing, things don't look good.
However, considering the games current popularity on Twitch, they'll probably want to get it onto consoles as fast as possible to cash in while the game is still trendy, as fad games like this tend to die off when the next big thing shows up.
