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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.

One Way: The Elevator is a 2020 Casual, Indie and RPG game priced at $3.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 472 reviews) and an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners.

2
playing now
94%
positive of 472 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 36 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (102 reviews).
  • · Top 13% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.4k–21k copies

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
969620202026Week of 2020-08-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
68.7%
earned "Mom, Dad, and Me"
34.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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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