The Stairway

The Stairway

Max Schuler · November 9, 2024 · Precision Platformer, 3D Platformer, Parkour, Action, Casual

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The Stairway price

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About The Stairway

A 3D parkour game through the memories of a life. The goal is to reach the top, sometimes the way forward is not obvious.

The Stairway — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Players are divided on this indie 3D platformer, with most criticizing its minimal effort asset use and ugly visual filters as the sole point of interest, alongside poorly implemented platforming mechanics that don't justify its Steam presence. Some find the odd art style and difficulty tolerable or even enjoyable once adjusted to, though most note it lacks polish and would benefit from controller support and better level design.

Recommended Jul 22, 2025
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7 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 1, 2025
All my gaming skills died with me :(
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 2, 2026
"The Stairway" is an exercise in just how ugly the filters on a minimum effort Unity kitbash can get. And the answer is, pretty bad. But yes, I'm afraid to say the sole point of interest in this amateur shovelware is the ugly "pencil drawing" filters slathered all over stock/placeholder Unity assets and not much else going on. What do you do in the game? It's a 3D platformer, and a bad one. You can do some rather poorly done 3D platforming here on the minimalist environments, but really the focus is just on the graphics filter. Boggles the mind that anyone would think something like this should go on the same platform as GTA:V, Baldur's Gate 3 and Death Stranding, but here we are. The "game" here is of a pretty low technical standard. The implementation is basic minimum effort stuff, more like a weekend project rather than a serious, professionally made product... and it's bad even compared to most amateur made games. An experimental piece... and the experiment is "Can I spend $100 on Steam Direct and then call myself a game dev?" While that $100 spend on Steam Direct probably made the developers feel good about themselves, we have to ask why this kind of thing is good fo…
Recommended Jul 27, 2025
ehh some of the jumps and puzzles arnt great but it's still aight.
Not recommended Feb 19, 2025
Perspective was a bit strange with the art style but it worked OK after turning down my mouse sensitivity and using it to look around. This game would have benefited greatly from controller support.
Recommended Feb 12, 2025
奇怪的,晕眩地,好玩的,难得 weird dizzy funny hard

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