Choose Challenging Dogfights
Choose Challenging Dogfights if it's currently about 70% cheaper on the Steam Store. Challenging Dogfights launched in 2019.
Challenging Dogfights vs Only Up: With Friends
Challenging Dogfights and Only Up: With Friends both land in Action, Indie, Adventure on Steam, which is why they keep getting compared. The comparison below is built from each game's Steam metadata — release year, genres, categories, Steam Deck status, price, and review score — refreshed daily by imho.run's scraper. Headline differences: Both share Action, Indie, Adventure on Steam. Challenging Dogfights (2019) is 4 years older than Only Up: With Friends (2023). Challenging Dogfights is currently ~70% cheaper on Steam than Only Up: With Friends (1.49 USD vs. 4.99 USD). No login or purchase needed — scroll for the full table, the verdict FAQ, and links to ranked similar games for both titles.
Which should you pick?
Choose Only Up: With Friends
Choose Only Up: With Friends if you want the Multi-player, Online PvP, and Online Co-op side of the pairing. On Steam, it's the newer release (2023) and ships with the modern feature baseline. Only Up: With Friends launched in 2023.
Both Challenging Dogfights and Only Up: With Friends sit in Action, Indie, and Adventure on Steam and both list Steam Leaderboards, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Use the side-by-side table for the feature view, or follow the "Games like" links below to see ranked alternatives for either title.
Side-by-side comparison
 Challenging Dogfights |  Only Up: With Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2019 | 2023 |
| Genres | Action, Indie, Adventure, Casual | Action, Indie, Adventure, Casual |
| Platforms | Windows | Windows |
| Steam Deck | Unrated | Deck Playable |
| Price | 1.49 USD | 4.99 USD |
| Steam reviews | 3 reviews | 61.4% positive (158 reviews) |
| Multiplayer | Single-player only | Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op |
| Developers | Eckham | NoGlyph Games |
Side by side
- Both share Action, Indie, Adventure on Steam.
- Challenging Dogfights (2019) is 4 years older than Only Up: With Friends (2023).
- Challenging Dogfights is currently ~70% cheaper on Steam than Only Up: With Friends (1.49 USD vs. 4.99 USD).
- Only Up: With Friends has co-op; Challenging Dogfights does not.
- Only Up: With Friends is Deck Playable on Steam Deck; Challenging Dogfights has no Deck rating yet.
Challenging Dogfights vs Only Up: With Friends — FAQ
- Should I play Challenging Dogfights or Only Up: With Friends first?
- If you want chronology, Challenging Dogfights (2019) came out before Only Up: With Friends (2023). If neither is a sequel to the other, order doesn't really matter — start with whichever fits your current mood, since both share enough on Steam to make either a reasonable opener.
- Are Challenging Dogfights and Only Up: With Friends similar?
- They overlap on Action, Indie, Adventure on Steam, so the catalogue groups them together — but "similar" depends on the specific mechanics. Use the genre + category rows above to decide whether the overlap matches what drew you to the one you've already played.
- Does Challenging Dogfights have multiplayer like Only Up: With Friends?
- No. Only Up: With Friends supports multiplayer on Steam (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op), while Challenging Dogfights is listed as single-player only.