SimulationFit check
Is Only Way is Down worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Platforming fans who want a cat-focused 3D descent
- Players who enjoy precision jumps and balance-based movement
- Players who want to customize a feline character while navigating construction sites
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking combat, story-driven progression, or varied mission objectives rather than platforming
- Players who prefer forgiving movement and low-risk traversal over falls caused by imprecise positioning
- Players looking for a multiplayer game or a broader collection of gameplay systems
Our take on Only Way is Down
The defining structure is a one-way vertical platforming descent: the cat begins high above the city and must work downward across construction materials, with balance errors sending it tumbling.
What is Only Way is Down?
Only Way is Down is a challenging 3D platforming game about a cat stranded at the top of a skyscraper under construction.
The goal is to descend through urban construction areas and return home by crossing steel beams, scaffolding, cranes, and unfinished floors. Movement focuses on careful jumps, climbing, swinging, and landing on narrow surfaces. Balance is central: placing two or more paws beyond an edge can send the cat tumbling downward. The game also includes cat customization, with selectable cat types, eye colours, body shapes, clothing, hats, glasses, masks, and other accessories. The vertical cityscape provides the setting as the cat works downward through precarious routes and changing construction-site structures.
How Only Way is Down plays
- 01Balance-Based Movement
- Crossing an edge too far can make the cat lose balance and fall.
- 02Construction-Site Routes
- The descent uses beams, scaffolding, cranes, and incomplete floors as traversal spaces.
- 03Cat Customization
- Players can combine choices for cat type, eyes, body shape, clothes, hats, glasses, masks, and other accessories.
- 04Vertical Descent
- The game structures its platforming around moving down from a skyscraper toward home.
Games like Only Way is Down
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Alibi GamesFor:Players who enjoy demanding physics-based climbing with repeated precision jumpsSkip if:Players seeking forgiving platforming may find the fragile movement and fall-related setbacks too punishing
SimulationBound Up & Squirming!
Stegersaurus Software Inc.For:Physics-platformer fans who want movement-based obstacle coursesSkip if:Players seeking combat systems rather than physics-based obstacle traversal
SimulationFORZA POLPO!
MONTE GALLOFor:Fans of first-person platformers who want high vertical movementSkip if:Players seeking low-pressure platforming may hit a wall when each jump and shot uses the same energy reserve.Picked by overlapping fit notes and genres, not an editorial comparison.
Only Way is Down: platforms & release
Is Only Way is Down worth it?
It is worth it if: platforming fans who want a cat-focused 3D descent. Skip it if: players seeking combat, story-driven progression, or varied mission objectives rather than platforming.
Where can I download Only Way is Down?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Only Way is Down's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Only Way is Down on?
Windows only.
