Once Up

Once Up follows Cliff Hanger, a small elephant separated from his parents after a deep fall. On his journey, he finds and eats a huge peanut that gives him the ability to become weightless and sling himself through the air whenever he latches onto a surface. His goal is to climb a giant tower made from drawings and return to his family.

A book of fairy tales

The game takes place across the pages of an old-fashioned fairy tale book, which you explore page by page. Its stories are presented as silly, cartoon-like, hand-drawn illustrations, and each tale has its own story and songs.

Draw your climbing paths

You use magical sketches from the book to shape paths through each level, then climb them to collect peanuts. Peanuts are needed to unlock new areas of the book and discover further challenges; some may also lead to hidden areas and secrets. Climbing towers that seem unreachable calls for skill, timing and a little magic.

Modes and levels

Once Up includes different game modes and a procedural level generator, so no two runs are the same. Its songs draw inspiration from well-known old fairy tales that have been rewritten and summarized in verse.