History VideoGame / OnlyUp

Available for purchase [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381590/Only_Up/?curator_clanid=34815366 here]]. See also ''VideoGame/GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy'', which is basically a spiritual precursor to this game, but in 2D.

* VictoryFakeout: A few platforms are designed to look like players have reached the end, including one inside a Tower of Babel asset, and one early platform that sprays confetti and is decorated with text congratulating the player. Of course, then one steps onto the next platform, which then rises... and reveals there's ''still more'' objects to scale.

* GiantWoman: In the original release, a model of an {{Animesque}} young woman many times larger than the player character was one of the required landmarks they have to traverse. They'd need to climb various objects surrounding her, then jump onto her arm, and navigate across the cloth she's holding behind her to reach the next part of the course. [[https://www.downtimebros.com/only-up-anime-girl-removed-from-viral-climbing-game/ A later update removed the model]] and provided a bed-skip in its place, as it hadn't been intended for commercial use. Probably didn't help that this area is rife with sexual innuendo with varying levels of subtlety in an otherwise safe for work game.

-->Have you ever wanted to walk up to the clouds? Embark on an exciting journey in Only UP! Exploring a huge world full of secrets and mysteries, you have to get as high as possible, and the most interesting starts above the clouds...

* GiantWoman: In the original release, a model of an {{Animesque}} young woman many times larger than the player character was one of the required landmarks they have to traverse. They'd need to climb various objects surrounding her, then jump onto her arm, and navigate across the cloth she's holding behind her to reach the next part of the course. [[https://www.downtimebros.com/only-up-anime-girl-removed-from-viral-climbing-game/ A later update removed the model]] and provided a bed-skip in its place, as it hadn't been intended for commercial use.

* PantyShot: You'd have to literally go right between the legs of the GiantWoman to progress [[DummiedOut when the model was still in the game]]. If you angled the camera up while doing so, you could get a nice shot of her panties in the process.

* ShipOutOfWater: One auto-scrolling segment has a giant ship in a bottle whose bottle is broken; getting on board the ship itself causes it to start sailing over an actual floating body of water to the next segment, but for all intents and purposes, it's basically ''airborne''. Getting the ship to move the right way, however, can be a surprisingly touch-and-go business, as [[Characters/NijisanjiENLuxiem Vox Akuma]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TZWueYkf4Y&t=7102s discovered]].

** At the end of the rainbow bridge halfway through the game, there's a platform that looks like a circular picnic table with a few GiantFood items on it. Jumping onto any part of the table causes it to collapse, potentially leading to the poor player descending ''all the way down to the beginning of the game''. There's a bunch of floating platforms that form a pathway around it and an eerie noise as you approach it can potentially alert you to what's coming, but that hasn't stopped many streamers of this game from accidentally springing the trap and losing ''hours'' of progress.

''Only Up!'' is a platform game by [=SCKR=] Games. Built out of various recycled assets, its premise is deceptively simple: you control a teenager who wants to get out of the slums and find a brighter future. To do that, all the teen has to do is find a way to climb higher... and higher... and higher...

* ContinuingIsPainful: The player is literally incapable of taking any damage at all. It's still not recommended to mess up, however, because they can plummet straight down to the beginning ''at any point in the game.''

* GiantWoman: A model of an {{Animesque}} young woman many times larger than the player character is one of the required landmarks they have to traverse. They need to climb various objects surrounding her, then jump onto her arm, and navigate across the cloth she's holding behind her to reach the next part of the course.

* PantyShot: You have to literally go right between the legs of the GiantWoman to progress. If you angle the camera up while doing so, you can get a nice shot of her panties in the process.

* VictoryFakeout: A few platforms are designed to look like players have reached the end, including in inside a Tower of Babel asset, and one early platform that sprays confetti and is decorated with text congratulating the player. Of course, then one steps onto the next platform, which then rises... and reveals there's ''still more'' objects to scale.

** One of the assets used by the game is a desert area, with a [[ Series/BreakingBadcamper van and a pair of lawn chairs laid out next to it]].

* InterfaceScrew: Some sections mess with player's perception just to make the jumping trickier. One series of narrow paths have the screen brightness turned up, as if the player is staring straight at the sun, while another turns the screen monochrome.

* SchmuckBait: At the end of the rainbow bridge halfway through the game, there's a platform that looks like a circular picnic table with a few GiantFood items on it. Jumping onto any part of the table causes it to collapse, potentially leading to the poor player descending ''all the way down to the beginning of the game''. There's a bunch of floating platforms that form a pathway around it and an eerie noise as you approach it can potentially alert you to what's coming, but that hasn't stopped many streamers of this game from accidentally springing the trap and losing ''hours'' of progress.

* SteppingStonesInTheSky: Every single platform from the second segment upward is basically this. These platforms include such things as trucks, train cars, ladders, shelves, boxes, entire broken segments of buildings, giant skeletons, paper lanterns, a pirate ship, a killer whale with swords stuck in it, food boxes, giant floating flowers, and other weirder stuff.

** The penultimate segment includes assets based on the long-. At the end of this segment, the player enters a black hole that looks very much like the one seen in the climax of ''Film/{{Interstellar}}''.

** The temple with the golden apple has a mannequin in a golden pot with a hammer, a direct reference to ''VideoGame/GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy''.

** At one point during the black-and-white segment where the dialogue talks about death, the player collects a coin, and then jumps onto a gondola that carries them to the next segment. Together, these add up to a reference to Charon of ClassicalMythology, TheFerryman who takes departed souls across the river Styx.

* GiantWoman: A model of an {{Animeesque}} young woman many times larger than the player character is one of the required landmarks they have to traverse. They need to climb various objects surrounding her, then jump onto her arm, and navigate across the cloth she's holding behind her to reach the next part of the course.

* ShipInABottle: One auto-scrolling segment has a giant one of these whose bottle is broken; getting on board the ship itself causes it to start sailing over an actual body of water to the next segment. Getting the ship to move the right way, however, can be a surprisingly touch-and-go business, as [[Characters/NijisanjiENLuxiem Vox Akuma]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TZWueYkf4Y&t=7102s discovered]].

* AbusiveParents: The player's narration at one point describes how their father would beat their wife
* Checkpoint Starvation: There are no checkpoints at all. If you make a mistake and fall, all you can do is climb back up again.
* Continuing is Painful: The player is literally incapable of taking any damage at all. It's still not recommended to mess up, however, because they can plummet straight down to the beginning ''at any point in the game.''

* StairwayToHeaven: One segment invokes the trope with a FluffyCloudHeaven-like, temple-filled aesthetic, with multiple stairways taking the player upward.