Solely Up! Is a brutal janky platformer that blew up on Steam earlier this summer season 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 lots of errors and wish time to heal earlier than making their subsequent recreation.
“The sport has saved me below lots 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 obtainable within the Steam retailer quickly, that’s what I made a decision myself.” The sport now reveals as “not obtainable” on its retailer web page, although gamers who already bought it nonetheless have entry.
A parkour recreation about continually 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 have been combined, nevertheless, with some gamers praising the surreal and capricious 3D platforming whereas others critiqued its glitchy physics and hasty design filled with what seemed to be low-cost asset flips.
Successful amongst Twitch streamers who discovered viewers have been drawn to it as a kind 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 seemed to be loosely affiliated with NFTs, from photographs of Goblintown tokens showing in ranges to the title itself which is a typical rallying cry amongst crypto scammers.
“What I want now could be peace of thoughts and therapeutic,” Indiesolodev wrote in immediately’s replace. “I plan to take a pause, and proceed my schooling in recreation design and additional with new expertise and data to direct my energies to my subsequent recreation.” They’re sophomore venture is presently titled “Kith,” which implies associates 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 venture will probably be created by a small group,” they wrote. “It is a difficult venture on which I wish to considerably enhance my expertise in recreation design.”
Some gamers are already mourning Solely Up!’s sudden disappearance, asking why Indiesolodev didn’t simply determine to provide it away without cost. However many of the feedback on their replace are simply congratulating them for making a viral recreation out of nowhere. “You probably did a unbelievable job with this recreation and needs to be nothing however pleased with your self,” wrote the_drummernator. “I’ve had an excellent expertise with it to this point, and eventually attending to the highest after many setbacks was very fulfilling.”