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Run, jump and combo your way out of the goblin tower.
A fast, free arcade climber for your phone. Four modes, five climbers and a 10,000-floor tower. No ads, no account, and it works offline.
Upscape is a fast arcade tower climber for your phone. You're a runaway prisoner of the goblins, and the only way out is up.
Drag to run, tap to jump. The faster you run, the higher you fly, so build speed, bounce off the walls and skip floors to chain combos before the rising screen, or a goblin, catches you.
There are four modes, five climbers with 25 skins to earn, and a 10,000-floor tower of ten zones, each with its own look and music.
It's free, with no ads, no account and no tracking, and it works offline. There's one optional US$0.99 Supporter Pack that only adds a theme and a skin. Want to try it first? The first 2,000 floors play in your browser.
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Highlights
Run faster to jump higher, and bounce off the walls to keep your speed.
Land jumps of two floors or more back to back and the ember gauge lights up, with callouts from SNEAKY! to UNCATCHABLE!
Classic, Sprint 100, Chaos and Rockfall.
Each climber plays differently, and every skin is earned through one of 42 achievements.
The free demo covers the first 2,000 floors, with no download and no account.
Ten zones and 100 tiers, each with its own look and music.
A goblin chases you up the tower every half minute or so, and the Goblin King waits near the summit.
Drag-and-tap controls, smooth 60 to 120 fps, and a Fit screen mode that stretches the tower to tablets and sideways phones.
No account and no tracking. Play on the bus, on a plane, anywhere.
How to play
Drag along the screen to run toward the next ledge. The faster you run, the higher you jump.
Speed turns into height, and big jumps make your climber flip.
Walls keep your speed, so use them to reach ledges that look too far.
Land jumps of two floors or more back to back and the ember gauge lights up, burning hotter as the chain grows.
The screen keeps rising, and every so often a goblin chases you. Keep climbing.
In detail
Classic: climb as high as you can while the screen rises faster every 20 seconds. Sprint 100: race to floor 100 on the same tower every time, so times are comparable.
Chaos: a new twist every 14 seconds, from windstorms and low gravity to mirrored controls and sliding ledges, stacking two at a time later on. Rockfall: dodge what falls from the sky; three hits and you're out, and every 100 floors gives a heart back.
Fig, a runaway kid in a stolen goblin helmet, balanced in every way. Vix, a fox thief: the highest top speed, but slippery. Tad, a frog with sticky feet that grip instantly.
Bram, a stone golem with a huge standing jump but heavy in the air. Flit, a bat with a bandaged wing: floaty gravity and the best air control. Everyone but Fig is unlocked through achievements.
10,000 floors in 100 tiers, from Cellar Stone to The Summit. Each zone has its own sky, walls, musical key and living surroundings: torches and bats, dripping icicles, swinging lanterns, turning gears, thunderstorms, glowing crystals and shooting stars.
The ledges are placed fresh every run, always within reach of the floor below. Every tier you reach becomes a starting point for your next run.
In Classic, Chaos and Rockfall a goblin shows up every 30 to 55 seconds and chases you up the ledges. Stay ahead for 20 seconds and it gives up, for bonus points; stall and it knocks you down and steals a quarter of your combo points.
From floor 9,900 the Goblin King chases you all the way to the summit, and he never gives up.
On a tablet, a desktop window or a phone turned sideways, the Level width setting stretches the tower: Normal, Wide, Huge or Fit screen. Wide levels carry several routes side by side, and the game pushes back with a faster tower and quicker goblins. Wide runs keep their own high-score lists.
On older phones, Low FX mode lowers the resolution and turns off extra effects, and it switches on by itself when the game sees it struggling.
An original dark soundtrack of 43 tracks, synthesized live in code, that speeds up as the tower does. Every themed tier has a song of its own, and the backdrop, walls and music melt from one tier into the next instead of cutting.
Full-screen swipe-and-tap controls, haptics on Android, and settings for volume, graphics quality, screen shake and vibration.
Questions
Yes. There are no ads and no accounts. There's one optional US$0.99 Supporter Pack that adds a theme and a skin, and it's purely cosmetic.
Yes. Everything plays offline.
On Google Play for Android. A free demo of the first 2,000 floors also runs in your browser.
Through achievements. There are 42 of them, from reaching floor 250 to landing a 150-floor combo, and the game shows what earns each reward.
No. High scores are stored on your device for every mode, which makes it easy to pass the phone around.
The browser demo's code is on GitHub. The code for the full game is private.
Get Upscape on Google Play, or try the first 2,000 floors in your browser first.
