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Only Way is Down
Embark on a purrfectly perilous rage filled adventure as this lil kitty cat took an unfortunate catnap and ended up stranded sky high! With no way but down, master your feline agility and platforming prowess to navigate your descent through the urban jungle in this gravity defying escapade!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-19.
“I really want to like this platformer/parkour game. It is visually pleasing, I love how the cat looks, that it's cute and you can customise it. At first I thought is was going to be a casual, relaxing experience - you know, it's a cutesy cat and all. But, oh dear, was I wrong!…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“i use crossover for my mac and when i try to play it says issues with the amd graphics driver so i just wasted £8. but looks cute though”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“If I Played For Any Longer, Me, My PC, And The Room I'm In Will Go prjnwasufjdshxncjdhfznhbc”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Small Fixes
- UI Fix for Customise Kitty sub menu - Fixed instance of flickering mesh due to overlap - Applied an adjustment to area where crouch is needed; players would some times get stuck
v1.04 Splatter Cats DLC, Weather Customisation and Quality of Life Improvements
- Splatter Cats DLC - Release and Integration of free Splatter Cats DLC which features an additional splattertastic death mode - Weather Customisation - Options which allow users to customise the weat
v1.031 Ragdoll Bug Fix
- An update to try and fix a bug in unreal engine where some computers/cpus when ragdoll is activated will cause the physics asset to go crazy and fly off. I've never been able to replicate the issue
v1.03: Improved Accuracy, Responsiveness and More Routes and Clothing
- Added additional traces to each paw to make the two paw rule slightly more forgiving and more accurate; there used to be one trace per paw there is now 3 traces per paw. Previously the cat would lea
Small Fixes
- Fixed an issue whereby when the key/controller bindings were reset the reset key bindings would not be saved - Fixed an issue with the tail stretching with the chonkier cats - Fixed an issue with th
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-19.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Cats · Adventure · Platformer · Action · 3D Platformer · Casual · Precision Platformer · Simulation · Action-Adventure · Exploration · Realistic · Parkour (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Playable without Timed Input · Stereo Sound |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Portuguese - Brazil, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 22 |
| Official site | https://onlywayisdown.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 | AMD Phenom II X4 965 Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 | AMD Radeon HD 6670 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 6 GB available space