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One Way: The Elevator cover art

One Way: The Elevator

Cotton Game · 2020-08-13

Steam

CasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 13, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 27, 2020 (Android), Jul 27, 2020 (iOS)

One Way: The Elevator is a creative point-and-click game developed by CottonGame. You need to find a blue sphere in each scene to power an elevator to travel upward.

2
playing now
94%
positive of 472 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 9,708 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.4k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 472 total reviews — how this is computed.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)27848%18
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGCuteCasualPuzzleRobotsCartoonClickerFantasyStylized

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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