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Game2017
Downward: Enhanced Edition
Developer Caracal Games
Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity. From the Steam store page
98 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Sep 27, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
53 positive · 36 negative
95% range 49–69%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
402 of 567 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 98 · most liked firstTwelve years ago tonight, during the 7th inning of a meaningless September Twins game, I met my wife. I was stretching in the employee break room. Downward dog, as you can see below. She set down her frankfurter to take a picture of my ass. That’s how it happened.
unlabelledView post →HE FORMS HIS OWN RAMP BEFORE SKATING ON HIS KEYBLADE FOR A DOWNWARD ATTACK! THIS GAME IS ALREADY SICK!
unlabelledView post →The Short Version: Considering the team behind it consists only of three people, Downward is worth its praise. It has some of the best parkour mechanics I have ever seen in a game, packed with some unusually captivating levels to run, jump, and slide through. Sadly, other areas didn’t receive this same level of attention. A weak story that feels unfinished, along with dull characters, doesn't provide this game any favours. If it’s the parkour you’re after, you’ll likely enjoy this. However,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Downward dog? Puppy yoga? Nope! Just another #packnightshade game night with @pupperlink.bsky.social @pupperflint.bsky.social @pupstretch.bsky.social @unixthebeagle.bsky.social #pupplay #humanpup
unlabelledView post →short exploration-focused parkour game , if you are a fan of movement in dying light or mirrors edge this game will scratch your itch.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Downward: Enhanced Edition - Nothing enhanced about this game. Don't be fooled by the positive reviews. This game is bland, empty and the mechanics are just awful. The biggest gripe I've got with Unreal Engine is that devs think it's the be all, end all for game development. Sure, it does most of the legwork, but devs think that is good enough and if a game is pretty, then the mechanics don't matter. That might've been a couple of years ago, not anymore. Now, if a game has Unreal Engine, you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I badly wanted to like this game. The screenshots looked so sweet, and I love first person platforming, there are not enough games in the genre. The dialogue in this game made me cringe so hard I wanted to retract my neck all the way into the torso. The voice acting isn't great, but I think they did an acceptable job working with the insufferable lines they were given. The writing is the issue here. The parkour system is passable, but for a game all about parkour, it's not good enough in my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Mirror's Edge-inspired first-person parkour platformer with vaguely Metroid-esque progression sounds like a good time, and I actually found Downward pretty fun for its first few hours despite an abundance of rough edges, but this is ultimately just too janky and unpolished to recommend except on deep discount, with controls that get increasingly unreliable as you acquire new abilities, and level design that gets increasingly convoluted and tedious to navigate with minimal direction (there's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an ok game. Climbing mechanics are heavily scripted, and sometimes the same jump cannot be done with the same height at a differenet place. The fighting is totally pointless, just as the upgrade system. The gathering is suppose to encourage running around looking at alternative routes and secrets, but the game is so boring, it just kills the vibe. The only real fun part is the ending after the cast. The story is also insanely dumb. At least it has tits...but that's pretty much it. There…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starting positive: Landscapes are gorgeous. The mechanics of parkour and unlocked "powers" are better than I expected, but still jank. Voice acting is great, and the story isn't painfully bad. At no point did anything fail to respond to my input. Giant tortoise. Though I nearly got softlocked once, I never did, and if I had been using the Mark like I was told to then I'd have nothing to worry about. The base-building mechanic feels out-of-place. The epilogue was a bit tedious. Switching…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its fun for a little bit but gets boring pretty quick, there's a story but it's irrelevant and pretty bad. The game need a way to turn off all the motion blur cause its annoying, the enemy's in this game are terrible and you basically only got one way to get rid of em so combats lackluster as well.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too inconsistent to be fun. You get caught/stuck on so many random things. Movement, dashing, sliding, climbing, etc all feel slow and janky.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Story is nonsensical and levels slowly become repetitive and frustrating
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First person post apocalyptic version of Super Mario with parkour. Very resource-heavy but very nice to see and hear despite some small glitches. It is all in all a simple game but it has a fun gameplay and a quite compelling story to me. It's not a perfect game but if you like games like Mirror's Edge you will love it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played almost an hour of Downward until reaching the meditation area, where you can practice the various parkour moves, including the ones you haven't unlocked yet. In this area, it quickly became obvious that the game's controls are not consistent and approachable enough to really make parkour work. Wallruns only sometimes work - often you jump off a wall too early because the game decided to, or you don't even stick to a wall. There is a grappling move that only sometimes works well and is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad controls. Bad level design. The fights are also really bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game's visuals are good, and the parkour is almost okay. I couldn't make sense of the narrative, how the "planet switching" alters the current level and the ending meant nothing to me. I found many bugs — in particular, the currency increases indefinitely when selling an item (which made gathering currency and unlocking new "powers" completely useless for the entire game). The HUD also disappears every now and then, and some actions can't be performed unless you reboot the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Downward: Enhanced Edition, developed by Caracal Games and published by Plug In Digital, is a first-person parkour-focused platformer that immerses players in a post-apocalyptic Earth filled with mysterious ruins and altered gravity. Released in 2017, the game emphasizes exploration and traversal over traditional combat, inviting players to navigate a world shaped by the aftermath of strange celestial phenomena. Its combination of fluid movement, atmospheric environments, and light RPG elements…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its not a very good parkour game. Movement never gets to be consistent enough to fun. You will be constantly tripping over small rocks and ledges. As the game gets harder it becomes more apparent that the movement just isn't up to the task with it never quite feeling right.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a pretty cool FPS parkour game that allows you to make some crazy movements. There is a story, but it's not very deep and that's okay. + Smooth gameplay and graphics + World is fairly well designed. + Shortcuts based on skill. - Very mediocre music (and terrible battle music). - Kind of buggy enemies. I think it took me about 7 hours to finish. A nice experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't think I can really recommend this to anyone. I was recommended this game cause I wanted a game similar to Metroid Prime. I heard that it has metroid like progression with Prince of Persia-esque parkour all in 1st person. Conceptually I should really like this game, and I really wanted to, but it hurts me to say it didn't really live up to my expectations. I will say graphically it's great for an indie game. It's also not too pricey either, I think I got it on sale for around a dollar,…
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a really fun experience. The story is quite mediocre, and half of the time you don't know what you're doing or where you're going (the objective marks are broken), but the world is beautiful and immersive, and traversing and exploring it is just fun. There are a few cons, the final boss battle is a royal pain, not really challenging nor difficult, but annoying as hell, and the challenges are completely redundant, and can be quite annoying as well if you care about the achievements. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A semi-open-world parkour game set in a fantasy universe. It was a very pleasant surprise, I really loved the formula. If you enjoy the gameplay of Mirror's Edge combined with a more intricate and open level design and a somewhat cryptic storytelling, you’ll likely appreciate Downward, though you must keep in mind that it's a small indie title with a few flaws. Your character can slide, dash, wall-run, wall-jump, and grab onto ledges. Right from the start, you have the ability to place a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story is meh, you play as a brain-dead guy simping a bird chick, but the parkour is good (except for an uncommon bug when you climb into a wall instead of onto it and have to restart the game).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Surprisingly underrated, haven't exactly seen many people play this game and only found it because me and my friends were laughing about how any word is a game. Definately worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is such huge disappointment. It starts really strong, it looks nice, it feels nice, it has a lot to explore and collect. And then everythning goes down. Wall jumping and climbing is so wonky that quite often you die/fall down not even knowing why. Fighting enemies is boring and their range is inconsistent. Boss is boring and annoying at the same time. Then you have some weird huge platforming level after boss that doesn't have savepoint. If you turn off game you need to do entire…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was the first game I decided to play after my father passed away. Honestly, I don't know what I was looking for... a distraction for my pain, maybe... leisure, perhaps?... or a sheer attempt to carry on with my regular life, and that includes keeping my gaming habit to bring me a smile or two. When I saw Downward in my Steam Library, I knew I had it for quite some time, among many others I couldn't find the right timing to sit down and play. Again, I don't know what I was looking for.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Downward: Enhanced Edition has beautiful graphics of a post-apocalyptic Earth. That's the only real positive. The gameplay is just boring. The graphics almost make up for the lackluster rest of the game. It's a parkour walking sim, with little else to do since there is little to no story. 5/10 MEH
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →12 hours across two playthroughs, deserves an expansive sequel
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is junk. There is no ability to rebind any of your controls. Not joking. Tough luck if you have any mobility related disability. If you want to buy console trash for your PC then maybe you will love it? EDIT: the keybind thing is fixed now if you want to play this game. I personally don't think you should support PC games that remove PC controls, even temporarily.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The parkour needs work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought I'd really enjoy this, but it turns out it is not for me. I really struggled with the controls (keyboard), compared to games with vaguely similar mechanics (such as Mirror's Edge or Doom Eternal). The snappy behavior needed to make parkour mechanics work felt unreliable to me, I could never figure out when and why it'd snap to a wall (or, indeed, not).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not fun, the only thing challenging about this game is the amount of bloom and lens flare preventing you from actually seeing anything. Frosty mountains and blinding snow to dark corridor with no lightsource with barely anything in between. Parkour is also wildly inconsistent and my character doesn't know how to jump in the direction i'm facing while wall "hopping". Story isn't even interesting enough to keep me playing through the frustration, refunded the 2.99 I got it for, that's how much I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good parkour game with some interesting mechanics. I found it to be quite forgiving in the open world section. The skyboxes used are great to look at and the graphics are decent maxed out. The story is fairly standard, I feel like this would be a great prologue for a story introducing this world, not the meat and bones of the world. The parkour challenge stages are really hard to get a gold medal on and requires perfect execution. This is an indie game so there's always going to be a few…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a little hard to recommend this game. The level design itself is pretty good and graphically looks amazing, but that's about it. The story is pretty much nonexistant, there's hardly any dialogue and voice acting is kind of bad. Parkour itself is fine but oftentimes feels unreliable or not 100% accurate, which for a game centered about parkour is quite bad symptom. I also wish there was some more depth to the combat itself, or at least some more enemy variety as there's basically…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantasy Mirrors Edge with small open world but linear porgression, more familiar to ME Catalyst. Lot of "indie aspiring to be AA" junk in animations and sound. I can excuse that. But physics can bug sometimes, meaning you can loose momentum and gaining it is inconsistent. Momentum that is important to speedrun challenge runs for achievements. Cool mechanic with "magic orbs" that alter the state of the world. Unfortunately underutilized and not well explained. Unsatisfying ending, especially…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game seems to be OK but i couldn't play more than an hour because i felt some strong motion sickness. the camera move too fast when climbing and it was not a pleasant experience at all. i'm pretty disappointed as i was looking to play this game for a long time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty game with some fun parkour that dont mind you sequence breaking. No bleeding idea what the story was about. Save yourself the headache and watch the epilogue on youtube. that wall run sequence has left a sour taste in my mouth.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The computers that I've built REALLY don't like this game. Also the game has boring story. Other than that good game yay!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game of jumping where the jump button doesn't always work. Enough said.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not "bad" bad, it's just "meh"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A new level of of fantasy and one of the best parkour-themed games around. the landscape is breathtaking.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is Prince of Persia with less focus on combat and a slightly more surreal environment. A little jank, but terribly good fun, no game-threatening issues. Pretty, interesting, engaging. Maybe twelve hours of serious play long, with more content beyond the beginning to end storyline. While it's not easy, it doesn't punish you for failure, which is a nice change of pace. Controls feel a little odd but you can get used to them pretty easily. Leaderboards for the obstacle courses/races are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I normally don't go in for the platformer parkour type games, as they often tend to be far too picky about perfect timing and flawless jumps, but this one caught my eye on a fantastic bargain, and the art style intrigued me. On top of that, there's a demo you can try, and both the demo and the full game have native Linux builds which (at least for me) both ran flawlessly and performed exceptionally well, even on "Ultra" graphics settings (which it defaulted to right from the first run on my…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pretty good for the price
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice eye-candy, but that's pretty much it. The games' tutorial system is poor; it doesn't introduce you to the game mechanics in an orderly fashion, and the 'tutorial' menu just has a list that you can click on, regardless if you've unlocked that thing or not. The writing is poor; this definitely wasn't their focus. Simple, stupid things, like when you talk to the skull, and he talks about the teleportation mechanic; "...that which you quaintly call 'the mark'." Only, you've not said more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a compelling and competent 3D platformer. The controls are crisp, and the parkour is difficult, but manageable. The learning curve is well thought out, and the environments are beautiful. Only downside is "combat". While mechanical enemies have an Off-switch somewhere in the level, golems need to be deactivated, on a certain animation. until then, dodging their attacks isn't very well implemented. The levels are very open and reward exploring every time. Didn't finish the game, because…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nobody truly is criticising it for being another GTA game. Frankly I just want another GTAIV but Better. V was Such A Catastrophic Downward Spiral to IV, story, characters, gameplay, the world even, don't get me started on the weapon choices in V, Awful. So when VI is Just GTAV again Yeah Lame.
unlabelledView post →I BUY THE GAME BECAUSE I LOVE MIRROR EDGE 1&2 AND ALMOST NO GAME LIKE THAT EXEPET THIS GAME AND WHEN TRY IT I REALLY REALLY WANT TO GIVE HER A CHANSE BUT I CANT THE FRAME LIMIT IS 120 IN THE GAME AND EVEN THE 120 FPS O FELL LIKE 60 FPS
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From the moment the game launched it was clear that there was no actual effort put into it: every line of voiceover feels like a trope being force-fed to the player, it simply makes no sense and invokes no interest. It's all bright and flashy colors and no substance. Jumping is okay, but that's it, and even then it's highly glitchy. Do not recommend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is not a polished game. You will hit a variety of bugs over the course of this relatively short game. I also found the enemy fights to be boring since you just have to move around until it performs an attack that allows you to take them out. It's repetitive and doesn't require significant skill. Now with all the bad out of the way, this is a fun parkour game. I would have put this game down due to the jankiness if it wasn't for how fun it was to explore and parkour throughout the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →would be nice if the parkour mechanics weren't as inconsistent and jank as they are.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Early Impressions – A Parkour Gem Worth Exploring 7/10 I just finished my first three hours with Downward: Enhanced Edition, and this game is fantastic if you enjoy parkour exploration! The movement is smooth and fun, and the entire world was practically designed to climb, vault and sprint through. It isn't just traversal, it's an open invitation to explore. It has its problems visually some textures and lighting are dated, and I ran into some mounting bugs here and there. But honestly, I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun little fantasy parkour game. Bought it a while back, came back recently for the Enhanced 2.0 update of the game, and it's been pretty nice. Easy to learn and difficult to master, straight-forward to beat the story but a lot of challenges outside of that. The story tries to be deep and dramatic, but it lacks a bit of punch. You can tell where things are going long before they actually get there, so it probably would've been more effective storytelling with either a different structure or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty cool game made for collecathon players. Some of movement kinda janky and need some getting used to
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game, especially if you play it with UEVR.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#downwardenhancededition #downward #24settembre Caracal Games torna con la versione rivista e corretta di Downward! Ecco la nostra recensione di Downward: Enhanced Edition per PC https://www.gamernews.it/articoli/recensioni/recensione-downward-enhanced-edition-pc.php
unlabelledView post →2026: Update: I played again yesterday, and either the issues were fixed or I was being a whiny n00b. Only 1 skill is still in Italian, jumping is fun, barriers are negligeable and I understand the Mark & Recall mechanic. Marks only stay active while you're within a level (not when entering a grate), and they even stay after a save & reload. (although I don't know about quitting & starting the game). I recommend this :steamthumbsup: ========= In this review, I will be resonding to some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#downward Downward: Enchanced Edition è disponibile su PC e console I possessori della versione PC avranno l'aggiornamento gratuito https://www.gamernews.it/notizie/2024/06/05/downward-enchanced-edition-e-disponibile-su-pc-e-console-16561.php
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