2023-09-09 17:30:00
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You probably haven’t missed Only Up! one of the games that has known the biggest popularity spike of 2023 while roughly one in two streamers tried to join the top of the course of this colorful game.
The principle is simple, climb to the top of a course as quickly as possible. A game extremely popular also of course Twitch that on Youtube, but who was also surrounded by drama and was even permanently deleted on September 6.
Why Only Up! was removed from Steam forever?
This time, there is no doubt regarding the question, Only Up! will not return to Steam, ever. Indeed, in a post from September 6, its creator announced that he wanted to leave the game behindand the errors with it.
“I am a solo developer and this game is my first experience in Gamedev, a game that I made for creativity, to test myself, and where I made a lot of mistakes. This game stressed me out a lot during all these months. Now I want to put this game behind me. And yes, the game will soon no longer be available on the Steam store, that’s what I decided myself. What I need now, it’s regarding peace of mind and healing.”
If you hadn’t followed the various dramas surrounding Only Up!, the situation has not not always been easy for its developerbetween rumors and copyright issues.
Only Up! in turmoil for weeks
Quite quickly following its release, the game faced a first big problem: one of the assets used by the developer (a young woman in a 3D model) did not belong to him, and its commercial use was prohibited.
The game was therefore removed from Steam and then came back, the girl had been replaced by another object.
From, Aboulicious, The creator of the asset authorized the game to use this model, as explained by the dev at the same time as closing the game.
Only Up! had also faced accusations of NFT promotions in the various artworks, a rumor later refuted.
Lots of stressful situations for its creator who therefore decided that stopping everything was the best option.
He might also have chosen to leave the game on sale, but not to touch it anymore, however, make a clean sweep seemed like a better idea for him, as he wants to work on a very different second game.
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