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.
