Early Access
Is The Long Way Up still being updated?
Yes, it's still new to Early Access (launched Aug 12). Last updated 17 days ago, with 15 updates so far.
Last checked Oct 22, 2026
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About the game
A text-forward cultivation roguelite. Climb a tower of one thousand floors that never repeats the same climb for every new soul. Falling is not death, it is tuition: keep your realm, lose your altitude, and climb again with Moye, a sword spirit who remembers every fall you take.
Update history
Recent updates
Oct 5, 2026 · Build
Public branch build 25737408
Latest build time Steam reports for the public branch.
Oct 3, 2026 · Patch note
The Stage Update (opens in new tab)
It has been a while since the last update, so this has a lot in it! Settings has a new row, Layout. Classic is the game as it has always been and it has not changed. Stage gives the painting the whole screen: your portrait sits in the corner with your health drawn around it and your companion at your shoulder, your record slides in from the left, the world…
Sep 26, 2026 · Patch note
Update: The Tower Remembers (opens in new tab)
Working on some bigger updates but a few things here! Tower Traces. The tower remembers your climb. Arrive on a floor where you fell, where you passed or failed a gate, or where you set your high mark, and the floor says so. May be missable on auto climb. Sparring is a bout now. The sanctuary spar is now a fight you play, first to a third of health, against…
Sep 16, 2026 · Patch note
Update: The Road Between Fires (opens in new tab)
The cast have lives now. Between climbs the thirteen rise and fall in realm, earn names, carry wounds. The gallery and their sheet show where each of them stands and what they climb for, and they tell you themselves at the fire. What you did on the last climb has a hand in it: your standing with them, a word kept or broken, a spar won or lost. The companion…
Sep 8, 2026 · Patch note
Update: One-Cut (opens in new tab)
Big update here, highly recommend starting a new soul to see all the new content. Your old souls are safe still. Something on the stairs Someone has been waiting at the top of the tower for a very long time, and he has started coming down. You will know his work when you see it, and you will not see him until he decides you should. The tower has a story now…
Questions
When was the last The Long Way Up update?
The Long Way Up last shipped a public branch build 17 days ago (Oct 5, 2026).
How often does The Long Way Up update?
The Long Way Up is still new to Early Access. It launched on Aug 12 and has 15 updates so far, which is too little history to rate how often it updates.
Is The Long Way Up abandoned?
No. The Long Way Up only launched in Early Access on Aug 12, and it was last updated 17 days ago, with 15 updates so far.
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