With some videogames we have found cases in which originally his popularity was practically nil, but as soon as some well-known streamers started playing them, it skyrocketed considerably. In this sense, one of the most striking cases was the one that occurred a long time ago with Among Us, which during its first two years, since 2018, only the families of the developers knew of its existence and little else.
However, in 2020 everyone wanted to play as soon as some of the most famous streamers in the world started broadcasting games on their channels. A situation that has been repeated againalthough this time with a title called Only Up!. The game in question was published on May 24 and in recent days it is rare not to find someone on Twitch who is giving it a try.
But why has a game like this become the latest phenomenon? What is so special that so many people want to play it?
Risky jumps and nerves of steel
Let’s start with the basics as is the premise of Only Up!which as its own name indicates, the only thing we have to do is constantly endlessly ascend the stage. The platform adventure places us in a huge open world starring Jackie, a young teenager tired of living in poverty, so she decides to embark on a journey that will change her life forever.
This is how this journey begins, about which its creators, the SCKR Games studio, have recognized that it is inspired by the fairy tale “Jack and the Beans”, since the only thing we will do is ascend through any part of the stage that we find on our way. step up to heaven. This itself supposes that it is essential not to have vertigobecause after a few hours you end up getting so high that you can’t even see the ground.
But if there is another aspect that makes this title so peculiar, it is that the platforms and the places through which you pass are very diverse. As soon as you are passing through the train tracks in the middle of the clouds, as if you were seeing a gigantic tower in the background, just as there are platforms in boxes of pizza, cookies, kiwis and much more, without leaving aside elements that will make anyone outline a smile to be based on popular culture.
The biomes are very different and the action is never interrupted, for better and especially for worse. More than anything because the problem is that the jumps are very tight and you have to have nerves of steel to calculate them perfectly. A wrong step or jumping too far can cause our protagonist to fall and something like that can spell doom, since this can mean that you return to the starting point if you are not lucky enough to find some element along the way that does lifeguard.
And it is for this last point that videos of all kinds have emerged on the network, with reactions of Youtubers and streamers getting really angry for suffering falls that have completely ruined the progress that had cost them so much to achieve.
Things as they are, reactions to certain situations, especially if they are catastrophic, sell. That is something that content creators know perfectly well and that is why more and more are playing on their channels at Only Up!. Also, although time can be slowed down to try to better calculate the parkour jumps and thus modify the speed of our character, a big problem is that sometimes there are fake platforms that fall apartso you can get an idea of what that means.
At this point you may be wondering, but can’t you save the game or go back in some way? The answer is no. Because precisely the grace of this title is that you have to pass it in one go, from start to finish. That is why it is so vital to have a lot of patience and, incidentally, the anger of content creators when they fall into the void is so understandable, since they can do absolutely nothing to remedy it.
The numbers that make your success clear
To make the success of Only Up! just look at the numbers he’s gotten recently, because they’re insane. In its first week on sale, the number was only around a few hundred players, but in recent days, as its popularity has increased, they have reached peaks exceeding 7,000 usersas we can see in SteamDB.
The trend is clearly upward, so it would not be surprising if these numbers continue to increase in the near future. In fact, it is currently located in the 21st place of the best-selling video games on Steam with 64% positive opinions, which is not to say that 36% of the negative ones are due exclusively to the fact that it is a bad game, but rather that many players have ended up frustrated by the crashes that have forced them to start their journey from the beginning.
As for Twitch, just go to the Categories section to check its popularity. Apart from the dozens of channels that are broadcasting the game at the time of writing these lines, it is currently located in 11th place with more than 82,000 viewerssurpassing titles like Apex Legends, Fortnite, Minecraft or CS: GO.
And you have enough courage to try to ascend to the top in Only Up!? I have to admit that my patience in these games is not great enough and just because of the fear of falling near the final stretch, it throws me back a lot. I will limit myself to following the example of tens of thousands of people and I better put on a channel to reaffirm that it would happen to me like many content creators who would go into rage because a bad footstep would annoy the whole experience.
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