71%Strong matchJump King
90%12k90% positive reviews, Very Positive across 12k reviews·Psychological Horror · Difficult
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Are you a true platform player? Take up the challenge to beat this unforgiving game where your goal is to climb up to the top to wake up. A game where for every successful jump, the tension and stake rises with the fear of falling back to start. Can you do it?
You're stuck in a sleep paralysis. Everything seems real and feels like you're wide awake, but you can't move. For every blink you make, the more surreal it becomes. Inevitably, you sink into a nightmare, you're stuck inside a box, and you can't get out. You need to wake up! UpWakeNing is a challenging jumping platformer. You need to wake up, and to do so you need to climb to the highest point in the nightmare in which you reside in. Be careful though, for every unlucky slip, the less sane you might become.

-A high-stake jumping platform game A game where only you are responsible for the outcome. You are your own enemy and hero. The only way is up and with every successful jump, the higher the tension rises as one mistake can mean a long fall, a true nightmare.

-Two levels While the two levels are somewhat identical, if you are to beat the first level, you get to enjoy the second level with the ability to double jump! Journey back in the hellish place that nearly made you insane, and calmly laugh away how you were stuck at a certain place, and blaze through it with the double jump. -Physics Angle, velocity, rotation and gravity is a thing. You will quickly realize this.

-Hold to charge and jump Can you master something as simple as jumping with the right amount of power, let alone account for angles, velocity and the rotation when you jump? -Preparation is your best asset When you're in the air, you cannot change the path you have chosen.

Enjoy or despair at the sleep paralysis, nightmare and what its world has to offer.

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