This punishing climbing game is Twitch's latest masochist craze – GamesRadar

Home PC Platformer (Image credit: SCKR Games) Indie climbing game Only Up! is Twitch’s latest masochist craze. In recent months we’ve seen new entries from some of gaming’s biggest and most popular titles, including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Diablo 4, which you’d certainly expect to be high on Twitch’s most-watched chart. One you might not be expecting is Only Up!, an unassuming indie game inspired by Jack and the Beanstalk that’s received fairly mixed reviews on Steam. But like with Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and Jump King – both punishing games about struggling upwards – it’s taken Twitch by storm. Only Up! puts you in the shoes of teenager Jackie who, in an effort to escape poverty, sets out to climb to the very top of the game’s weird and disjointed world. “The game has no save points,” explains Only Up!’s Steam page. “The point is that each successive level raises the stakes in the game, the higher you climb, the more painful to fall.” It adds: “This makes the game more tense and nervous, but that’s the point – to reach the top, you need to step over this fear and irritability, calm down
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