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Games like UpWakeNing

If UpWakeNing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crappy Climber, Space Kettle and Trap Trek: Ultimate Other Me — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About UpWakeNing: 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?

2020ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDWindowsby Pham Studio
UpWakeNing — Steam game cover
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Cursor positioning dictates every jumpMinimalist design keeps focus sharpPower gauging requires precise timingChallengingContemplativeStressful

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Steam players who put hours into UpWakeNing also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Crappy Climber

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with UpWakeNing.

    Top pick for UpWakeNing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    Use your mouse to flick and navigate your character through a Highly difficult and unforgiving Climb. . . You will fail miserably, multiple times... So just Git gud! Or tell your friends you couldn't finish it.

    2020Adventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Space Kettle

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for UpWakeNing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    Have you ever played a game as a Flying Kettle? No? It’s time to fix this. In this game, your main goal is to reach the top of the unyielding surreal mountain at any cost, going through the test of inevitable falls, constant loss of progress, and deep frustration.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Trap Trek: Ultimate Other Me

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for UpWakeNing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    A super-challenging action game where you use the Avatar System to spot traps and aim for the goal in each stage.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Hop to It!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for UpWakeNing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    Hop your way through a colorful level filled with various challenges and obstacles, master the state-of-the-art pogo stick controls, and try not to fall...

    2025ActionAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Kick'n Hell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for UpWakeNing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    Kick, climb, fall, rage… Rise to the top and take on Satan, or fall like the rest. Beware, there’s no mercy in Hell.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Storm of spring

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for UpWakeNing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    Draw the wind with the mouse and let the fluffy jellyfish fly high! If you fall, don't worry, just climb back up. There's also the Easy Mode for those who are afraid of falling!

    2024ActionIndieCasual5.59 USDSteam ↗
  7. Bald Ball

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for UpWakeNing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    Bald Ball is a difficult physics-based game where you control a man in a hamster ball climbing the world to reach the moon made of cheese. Will you master the power of the hamster ball?

    2025ActionSportsIndie3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Trigger Henry

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for UpWakeNing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    Trigger Henry is a adventurous hardcore platformer. Every jump gets you one step closer to winning, or does it? One wrong footstep and your progress will be lost! Not many are able to stay calm while Henry comments every fail of yours with his triggering sayings.

    2023ActionAdventureCasual7.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below UpWakeNing at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under UpWakeNing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under UpWakeNing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under UpWakeNing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under UpWakeNing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under UpWakeNing on Steam right now. Shares Action with UpWakeNing.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under UpWakeNing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with UpWakeNing.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under UpWakeNing on Steam right now. Shares Action with UpWakeNing.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under UpWakeNing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with UpWakeNing.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with UpWakeNing.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with UpWakeNing.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with UpWakeNing.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with UpWakeNing.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about UpWakeNing

How much does UpWakeNing cost?
UpWakeNing is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to UpWakeNing?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside UpWakeNing are Crappy Climber, Space Kettle, Trap Trek: Ultimate Other Me.
Who developed UpWakeNing?
UpWakeNing was developed by Pham Studio.

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