Going Up

Name: Going Up
Price: 1.99 USD
Rating: 4.3 (39 reviews)
Author: Napping Raccoon

Deliver your passengers!

$1.99 · Designed for iPad

39 Ratings
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4+
Years
Category

Strategy
Developer

Napping Raccoon
Language

EN
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163.8
MB

"The vibes here are impeccable" —Vice "Fast, simple, solid, and challenging" —PocketGamer Going Up is a strategy game where you control groups of lifts in a skyscraper to deliver passengers before they lose their patience. Optimise elevator movement as you deal with a fussy cast of passengers—impatient CEOs, mean soldiers and confused tourists. There is no one solution to elevator optimisation: every stage will have its unique bottlenecks, passengers and problems. Can you keep people moving, or will they have to take the stairs? • Deliver your passengers: manage elevators in a skyscraper to deliver passengers up and down to their destinations as efficiently as possible. • Adapt to complex situations: learn to manage increasingly complicated systems of lifts, from multiple lifts, to lifts that operate on different sets of floors, to lifts that completely skip floors. • Placate fussy characters: deal with a cast of seven unique characters, from impatient CEOs to mean soldiers to confused tourists. Learn their behaviours to score the greatest number of points from each of them. • Rack up high scores: compete on a global leaderboard to gain the most points in each level. • Ascend the mysterious skyscraper: discover different environments on each level, playing with different sets of lifts as you climb to the very top. • Play on the go: play one handed, while commuting, queuing in line, or waiting for the lift. Every round lasts at most a few minutes.

Ratings & Reviews

4.3

out of 5

39 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Juggle impatient passengers by efficiently moving elevators in this minimalist mix of puzzling and strategy.
This game is good
12/01/2025

bormethicus
It’s a good game overall, but it gets a little boring after a while. Hope you continue to make games because you have potential
This game is good
12/01/2025

bormethicus

It’s a good game overall, but it gets a little boring after a while. Hope you continue to make games because you have potential
I(almost) really like it, but
10/15/2024

totallymike
The janitors are a big source of friction that feels really at odds with the rest of the gameplay. For the rest of the passengers, you’re working out an efficient flow and helping them navigate the tower, but when the janitors appear you’re playing a meta game where you’re trying to hold them off long enough to earn more points without letting them penalize you. Sometimes he shows so quickly you can barely get two stars before you start losing points. Then the run feels less like something you could have improved, and more like “oh, I guess the game just wanted to stop”*That said* the premise and the rest of the game is groovy! I love managing the (non-janitor) characters and trying to balance lift car locations to move people as fast as possible.If we can find a way to re-balance the janitors, or maybe have different game modes with other challenges, this game could truly be one of my favorites

Developer Response
Thanks for playing! I've done a bit of balancing to make the janitor more predictable. I did design the janitor to ensure each run does not stretch on indefinitely, but I understand the feeling that sometimes his spawning is too quick and unpredictable. I will continue to think about how to provide a better playing experience. Love your suggestion of different game modes, I will certainly consider it. Thank you again for playing and taking the time to comment about my game.
I(almost) really like it, but
10/15/2024

totallymike

The janitors are a big source of friction that feels really at odds with the rest of the gameplay. For the rest of the passengers, you’re working out an efficient flow and helping them navigate the tower, but when the janitors appear you’re playing a meta game where you’re trying to hold them off long enough to earn more points without letting them penalize you. Sometimes he shows so quickly you can barely get two stars before you start losing points. Then the run feels less like something you could have improved, and more like “oh, I guess the game just wanted to stop”*That said* the premise and the rest of the game is groovy! I love managing the (non-janitor) characters and trying to balance lift car locations to move people as fast as possible.If we can find a way to re-balance the janitors, or maybe have different game modes with other challenges, this game could truly be one of my favorites
Developer Response 10/24/2024
Thanks for playing! I've done a bit of balancing to make the janitor more predictable. I did design the janitor to ensure each run does not stretch on indefinitely, but I understand the feeling that sometimes his spawning is too quick and unpredictable. I will continue to think about how to provide a better playing experience. Love your suggestion of different game modes, I will certainly consider it. Thank you again for playing and taking the time to comment about my game.
It’s a Good game
11/25/2025

brandon9666667
It’s a good buy game. It trains your fast decision making and become a good observer. You really have to use both left and right eye for timing. Almost like when you have to draw something with left and right hand independently
It’s a Good game
11/25/2025

brandon9666667

It’s a good buy game. It trains your fast decision making and become a good observer. You really have to use both left and right eye for timing. Almost like when you have to draw something with left and right hand independently

Minor improvements.

Version 1.3.14

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