Solely Up! Is a brutal janky platformer that blew up on Steam earlier this summer time after turning into successful with Twitch viewers. Plenty of controversies later, its creator has eliminated the sport from Valve’s digital storefront seemingly eternally, saying they made a variety of errors and wish time to heal earlier than making their subsequent recreation.
“The sport has stored me below a variety of stress all these months,” the sport’s developer, Indiesolodev, wrote in what seems to be the ultimate replace for Solely Up! (by way of PCGamesN). “Now I wish to put the sport behind me. And sure. the sport received’t be accessible within the Steam retailer quickly, that’s what I made a decision myself.” The sport now reveals as “not accessible” on its retailer web page, although gamers who already bought it nonetheless have entry.
A parkour recreation about consistently ascending to new heights, Solely Up! launched again in Might and rose to reputation in June with over 10,000 concurrent gamers and 90,000 viewers on Twitch. Evaluations of the sport’s precise high quality had been blended, nevertheless, with some gamers praising the surreal and capricious 3D platforming whereas others critiqued its glitchy physics and hasty design stuffed with what gave the impression to be low-cost asset flips.
A success amongst Twitch streamers who discovered viewers had been drawn to it as a form of voyeuristic failure porn, Solely Up! was nonetheless briefly pulled from Steam for a day in July after it was accused of stealing one other developer’s copyrighted 3D anime mannequin. As PC Gamer identified on the time, the sport additionally gave the impression to be loosely affiliated with NFTs, from photos of Goblintown tokens showing in ranges to the title itself which is a standard rallying cry amongst crypto scammers.
“What I would like now could be peace of thoughts and therapeutic,” Indiesolodev wrote in at this time’s replace. “I plan to take a pause, and proceed my schooling in recreation design and additional with new expertise and information to direct my energies to my subsequent recreation.” They’re sophomore mission is at the moment titled “Kith,” which suggests mates or acquaintances, although it’s additionally the identify of a preferred streetwear model. Indiesolodev describes it as utterly totally different from Solely Up! with an emphasis on “cinematography.”
“This time I hope the mission can be created by a small staff,” they wrote. “This can be a difficult mission on which I wish to considerably enhance my abilities in recreation design.”
Some gamers are already mourning Solely Up!’s surprising disappearance, asking why Indiesolodev didn’t simply determine to provide it away without cost. However a lot of the feedback on their replace are simply congratulating them for making a viral recreation out of nowhere. “You probably did a improbable job with this recreation and must be nothing however pleased with your self,” wrote the_drummernator. “I’ve had a terrific expertise with it to this point, and at last attending to the highest after many setbacks was very fulfilling.”
