Only Up Obby: Tower Climb

The pitch

Only Up Obby: Tower Climb is a 3D obby parkour platformer: run, jump and climb a huge tower made of 30 hand-built levels. Every level brings new traps: moving and vanishing platforms, spinning blades, crushers, conveyors, springs, wind zones and swinging hammers. Fall and you lose height, so every jump counts. Collect coins and diamonds on the way, unlock 30+ skins (frog, spider, cat, dog, capybara, stickman and their color variants), compete for the best height in the online leaderboard and skip a level if it gets too hard. A training hall teaches every obstacle before the real climb. Works on desktop and mobile: keyboard and mouse, or a floating joystick with auto-run and one big jump button on touch screens. English and Russian.

Controls & how it runs

Goal: climb as high as you can. Reach the flag at the top of each level to unlock the next one. There are 30 levels; finish them all to complete the tower. If you fall, you lose height, so land every jump. How to play - Move across platforms and avoid traps: spinning blades, crushers, pistons, vanishing and moving platforms, conveyors and wind. - Use springs and rings to launch yourself up. Timing is everything. - You can jump twice in the air (double jump) to fix a short jump. - Collect coins and diamonds: buy skins in the shop, or skip a level that is too hard. - Set your best height and compete in the online leaderboard. - Start in the Training Hall to try every obstacle safely. Controls (desktop) - WASD / Arrow keys: move - Mouse: look around - Space: jump (press again in the air for a double jump) - Shift: run - Pause button (top left): pause and settings Controls (mobile) - Left side of the screen: floating joystick (push further to run) - Right side of the screen: swipe to rotate the camera - JUMP button: jump (tap twice for a double jump) - RUN button: auto-run on/off

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a landscape (wide) screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. This cabinet runs wide: landscape screens flatter it, so tip a phone on its side or hand it a tablet or desktop and let it stretch out. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

• Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
• Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
• Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Only Up Obby: Tower Climb — quick-fire questions

Does Only Up Obby: Tower Climb cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Only Up Obby: Tower Climb?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Only Up Obby: Tower Climb on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. This cabinet runs wide: landscape screens flatter it, so tip a phone on its side or hand it a tablet or desktop and let it stretch out.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Only Up Obby: Tower Climb is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.