Downward: Enhanced Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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.

Downward: Enhanced Edition is a parkour, first-person and adventure game developed by Caracal Games and published by Plug In Digital and Dear Villagers.
Released on July 13th 2017 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 536 reviews of which 384 were positive and 152 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 6.49€ on Steam with a 35% discount.

The Steam community has classified Downward: Enhanced Edition into these genres:

Parkour First-Person Adventure Indie Open World Platformer Singleplayer Fantasy Sci-fi Action Atmospheric Puzzle Great Soundtrack Story Rich Difficult Casual 3D Platformer Short Family Friendly Surreal

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64 Bit and newer
  • Processor: Intel i3 3220 or AMD A10 5800K
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Geforce GTX 750 or AMD R9 270
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 7 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Any Windows compatible card
  • Additional Notes: Laptop versions of graphics cards may work but are NOT officially supported.

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
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 with the presented structure tidied up a lot. Combat could've had more variation and required required more timing, rather than the same handful of "keep away from the attacks until the weak spot becomes clickable" golems. But still okay outside of the drones that blow up in your face until you learn to backward-dodge away. Pretty fun for the 10 hours or so that it took me to beat it.
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Nov. 2024
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. I needed to have the sensation of flying, jumping, as if was trying to reach the sky or something. I needed to have a sample of what heaven was like, unlike the types of games I usually play. Well, getting down to business, Downward is a short entertaining game with fantasy and exploration aspects, but the main feature is the parkour. You boost for high jumps, touch the sky, fall, rebound, hook up, and all the rest. I mean, if you played and liked "A Story About My Uncle" this would be another nice option for you. I recommend this game, all in a nutshell. It brought me a bit of peace at least.
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Sept. 2024
Played just a little so far and here are my observations. - The Mark mechanic says you can use it as many times as you like, until after the first 'boss' then you only get 2 charges.. so that's a lie. - I used the Mark to get behind the first boss but it instant turns 180 degrees making the mechanic completely useless with anything that can turn to face you. - The upgrades screen doesn't explain what anything is except health, so you're upgrading whatever? - Much of the items in the upgrade menu are in Spanish. - The wall mechanic says how to wall-run and jump off, but then the next 2 wall sections have a bouncing auto-jump added to them. - Much of the items in the upgrade menu are in Spanish. - There's a climb animation but no animation for picking up, using a lever or drinking. - Falling (dying) doesn't cost anything, until it suddenly does. - There's an invisible 'killbox' when you fall too far, except in areas where there isn't. With all things considered within the first few minutes of gameplay, I still recommend it for the platforming and world detail.
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June 2024
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
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June 2024
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Downward: Enhanced Edition is currently priced at 6.49€ on Steam.

Downward: Enhanced Edition is currently available at a 35% discount. You can purchase it for 6.49€ on Steam.

Downward: Enhanced Edition received 384 positive votes out of a total of 536 achieving a rating of 6.84.
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Downward: Enhanced Edition was developed by Caracal Games and published by Plug In Digital and Dear Villagers.

Downward: Enhanced Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Downward: Enhanced Edition is not playable on MacOS.

Downward: Enhanced Edition is not playable on Linux.

Downward: Enhanced Edition is a single-player game.

Downward: Enhanced Edition does not currently offer any DLC.

Downward: Enhanced Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Downward: Enhanced Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.

Downward: Enhanced Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Downward: Enhanced Edition
-35% 9.99€ 6.49€
6.8
384
152
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Developer
Caracal Games
Publisher
Plug In Digital, Dear Villagers
Release 13 Jul 2017
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