Solely Up! Is a brutal janky platformer that blew up on Steam earlier this summer season after changing into successful with Twitch viewers. A lot of controversies later, its creator has eliminated the sport from Valve’s digital storefront seemingly perpetually, saying they made quite a lot of errors and wish time to heal earlier than making their subsequent sport.
“The sport has stored me underneath quite a lot of stress all these months,” the sport’s developer, Indiesolodev, wrote in what seems to be the ultimate replace for Solely Up! (through PCGamesN). “Now I need 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 exhibits as “not accessible” on its retailer web page, although gamers who already bought it nonetheless have entry.
A parkour sport 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. Critiques of the sport’s precise high quality have been blended, 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.
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A success amongst Twitch streamers who discovered viewers have been interested in it as a type 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 standard rallying cry amongst crypto scammers.
“What I want now could be peace of thoughts and therapeutic,” Indiesolodev wrote in at present’s replace. “I plan to take a pause, and proceed my training in sport design and additional with new expertise and data to direct my energies to my subsequent sport.” They’re sophomore venture is at present titled “Kith,” which implies associates or acquaintances, although it’s additionally the title of a well-liked streetwear model. Indiesolodev describes it as fully completely different from Solely Up! with an emphasis on “cinematography.”
“This time I hope the venture might be created by a small crew,” they wrote. “This can be a difficult venture on which I need to considerably enhance my abilities in sport design.”
Some gamers are already mourning Solely Up!’s sudden disappearance, asking why Indiesolodev didn’t simply resolve to provide it away at no cost. However a lot of the feedback on their replace are simply congratulating them for making a viral sport out of nowhere. “You probably did a improbable job with this sport and ought to be nothing however pleased with your self,” wrote the_drummernator. “I’ve had an awesome expertise with it to date, and eventually attending to the highest after many setbacks was very fulfilling.”