Halfway Down

Halfway Down

Stephen Joseph · October 31, 2023 · Action, Platformer, Precision Platformer, Abstract, Casual

Halfway Down is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →

Halfway Down price

Halfway Down is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Halfway Down

A Cruel Foddian Platformer.


Inspired by games such as Jump King and Getting Over It, this game forces you to complete highly precise gameplay under pressure of losing progress. There are no permanent checkpoints so be prepared to replay a lot of sections.

This game is ridiculously difficult and extremely frustrating.


While it is possible, do not actually try to beat this nightmare. For the few that actually play my game, good luck.

To anyone that actually completes this game...


Your name's will appear at the bottom ranked by time to complete. However, it could take 40+ hours of practice to even have a shot at the final jump.

Halfway Down — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
More games like this:Linux games

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Oct 31, 2023
Fun short platformer which is very difficult, cool movement tech aswell
2 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 31, 2023
excruciating, but fun. scrumptious movement too.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 8, 2025
"Halfway Down" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is possibly one of the worst precision platformers ever made, and the sheer failure this had on Steam is a factual testament to that. I don't think it was the bad gameplay, lack of polish or anything else of that sort that killed this before it even started. The graphics were obviously phoned in, and that's gamer repellant. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. The graphics here are particularly awful, while not directly pixelcrap, aren't far from it, minimalist, lazy, zero effort stuff, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. It's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having n…
Recommended Jan 11, 2025
I HATE THE ORB OF EVIL WHO THROWS AXES!! genuinely the only foddian game I have ever enjoyed. thank youstephen joseph <3 EDIT: I AM NOT ENJOYING THIS. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GAME? WHY AM I STILL SUFFERING HERE?????
Recommended Apr 25, 2024
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Recommended Nov 8, 2023
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