Kicking Upwards

Kicking Upwards is regarded as one of the best experimental, skills-based physics ball-kicking games specifically about kicking a red ball up a mountain.

Kick your ball higher, hike after it, and try to hold onto your progress. Every kick has consequences. Choose how much toe juice and ankle bend to use, which foot to kick with, then kick and hope it settles where you need it. Miss, and you might watch it roll away.

Along the route you’ll find gongs that mark new zones and milestones, bridges that might make you smash your keyboard into tiny tiny pieces, and unlockable animals tucked along the path. Unlock all 90 animals and strike every gong as proof you got there.

When things go wrong, you’re not totally blind. Use Ball Finder to track down your ball, and use Radar to spot nearby gongs and animal unlocks so you always have a next target.

Kicking Upwards includes simple character customization, plus some kick and ball related stats.

Can you collect every animal? Can you hit every gong? How high can you get Kicking Upwards?