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Sometimes Down: Around Town

A playground built for climbing. And for falling.

Somewhere in this city, a big green button is waiting for you. Press it and the clock starts. Rooftops, pipes, ladders, ledges, gaps that are exactly one jump too wide. Reach the red button and the clock stops. Bronze, silver, gold, and your name on a leaderboard the whole world can see.

Miss the jump? Sometimes you go down. The name is a warning.

Start in the warehouse.

Two short courses stand between you and the rest of town. Finish both, the doors roll open, and your first car is waiting: the Maluch. It's a shitbox. You'll love it.

Then become a toy.

One key and you're an RC car. Not a costume, a real one: suspension that squats on landing, a tail that steps out when you flick the handbrake, headlights, a horn you can lean on. The playground that just took you ten minutes on foot is a different place at ankle height, and it's littered with rings. Rings are cash.

Tricks pay. Destruction pays more.

Flips, barrel rolls, spins and air time stack into combos that pay out when you land clean. Land on your roof and you get nothing. Smash lamp posts, letterboxes, parking meters and phone boxes on the way to the ramp and you build a DESTRUCTION multiplier on top. Chain the carnage into the jump and watch the number climb. Flaming rings are out there too, for anyone brave enough to thread them.

Cars are earned, not bought.

Every car in the garage is locked behind something you have to DO. Beat a course. Find every idol. Collect a fortune in rings. Put in the hours. From the Maluch to the pickup, the buggy, the convertible, the sports car, the Explorer 4x4, the spy car, the armour, and one long black ride for the truly committed.

The Garage.

Walk in and your car is up on the pedestal. Spin it, zoom it, repaint it, bolt on speed, handling and hop upgrades and watch the stat bars move before you spend a cent. Garages are marked on your compass at all times.

The Corner Store.

No more permanent leg day. Energy drinks make you faster or springier for a minute or two, then wear off. They pause during course runs, because leaderboard times are earned, not bought.

Look under everything.

Collectables are hidden in every corner of the map, and they're not lying in plain sight. Some whisper. Some mutter. Some are up. Some are very, very down. Find a full set and something unlocks.

Bring friends.

Quick Play drops you straight into a town with other players. Race them to the rings. Honk at them. The sun and moon are on the same clock for everyone, everywhere: a full day and night rolls past every 40 minutes.

The goal

Earn every car. Top every board: course times, trick points, and time played.

This is a jam build and it's growing while you play. New blocks of city, new courses, and car races are next. Come back, the leaderboards will still be waiting.

Total Users

Total Sessions

22.0 hours

Total Playtime

Global Statistics

61.8K

time_played

237.3K

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845

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157

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167.9K

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447

w1_course3

164

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w1_course

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Package ID: escroomgames.sometimes_down

Created: 2026-09-15 02:34 UTC

Updated: 2026-09-23 15:52 UTC

Type: game

Public: Yes

Version: 395042

files: 6,582

Size: 458.1 MB

Engine Version: 29

Asset Version ID: 395042

Version Created: 2026-09-23 15:52 UTC

Hash: 1790178781

Manifest: Open manifest

Multiplayer: Yes

Versus: Yes

Co-op: Unknown

settings Engine & Multiplayer Configuration

Player Count: 1 - 64 Players

Tick Rate: 50 Hz

Network Type: Multiplayer

Launch Mode: QuickPlay

Startup Scene: scenes/quarry.scene

Map Select: Unrestricted

September Quality Update Sep 23, 2026

Fixed

Tricks - flips and rolls now follow the car, not the compass. W plus jump is a frontflip and S plus jump is a backflip whichever way you are facing. Same for barrel rolls.
Switching - pressing your swap key to get out puts you back exactly where you got in, facing the way you were looking. No more drifting across the map or a turn to the left every swap.
Mid air switching - your view direction is kept when you change between car and character in the air.
Car paint - your car now appears in your chosen colour from the first frame instead of flashing the factory colour first.
Clothes - everyone now shows up in their own avatar's clothing. No more naked Terrys.
Warehouse doors - the doors now open on your first login once you have earned access, instead of needing a restart.
Trick names - the airborne flip used a world axis, so the same input gave a flip or a barrel roll depending on which direction you were driving.
Swap drift - each car to character round trip moved you by the car's spawn distance.
Swap turn - setting the character's facing on exit was read as the ground turning, which rotated the view back.
Colour flash - car paint applied one frame after the car was first drawn.
No clothing - characters were dressed before their owner was assigned, so everyone was dressed from an empty outfit.
Doors shut on first login - the achievement check cached an empty result before the service had synced and did not retry for 30 seconds.

Performance Update Sep 21, 2026

Improved

Streets and ground rework - the roads, sidewalks, ground tiles and fences that make up the town are now drawn from the same batched system as the grass, where each one used to be a separate object with its own collision. That is roughly another 1,800 objects gone from the level.
Town draw distance - far away blocks of town are no longer drawn or given collision until you get close, then stream in as you approach.
Lighter level - between this and the grass rework the level now carries about a tenth of the live objects it launched with. Expect smoother frame rates and quicker loading, most of all on lower end machines.
Shadows - sun shadows were floating away from the things casting them and only looked sharp right under the camera. They now sit on the ground where they belong and hold up across the street.
Fog - distance fog was not actually showing up anywhere in the level. It is now, so the far end of town fades out instead of just stopping.
Camera clipping - fixed the ground breaking up into dots when the RC camera sat low to the road, and the horizon no longer jumps when you switch between on foot and the car.

Quality Of Life and UX Sep 20, 2026

Added

Quests - a quest tracker now sits in the top right and tells you what to do next. It kicks in the moment you finish the tutorial, so nobody gets left standing around wondering where the fun is.
First quest: Try Out Your Car - some of you played for half an hour without finding out you can turn into an RC car. That is on me, not you. The first quest now tells you exactly which key to press, and it shows your own key bind.
Second quest: Visit The Garage - follow the compass to a Garage and talk to the owner. That is where cars get painted, upgraded and swapped.
More quests to come - the quest system is built to grow. Expect it to point you at courses, collectables and other things worth finding as the town expands.
Settings menu - there is now an in game settings menu. Open it with your Menu key.
Volume sliders - separate music and sound effect volume.
RC camera direction - the RC car camera turned the opposite way from what most people expected. Left is now left. If you liked it the old way, there is an Invert X option, and an Invert Y to go with it.
Settings are kept - your settings are saved separately from your progress, so they survive a progress reset.
First Drive - awarded the first time you become your RC car.
Shop Talk - awarded the first time you talk to a Garage owner.
Garage camera - fixed the camera getting stuck in place after leaving the Garage while a pop up was on screen. Moving worked but the camera stayed behind.

Performance Sep 18, 2026

Improved

Grass rework - all 7,500+ grass clumps in the world are now drawn from one batched system instead of being thousands of separate objects. The level carries around 80% fewer live objects, which should mean smoother frame rates, especially on lower end machines.
Grass draw distance - grass far from you is no longer rendered at all and streams in as you get close, so the game is not drawing fields you cannot see.
Grass still squashes - every clump still folds flat when you walk or drive over it and springs back up afterwards, same as before. It just costs a fraction of what it did.
Faster loading - the level file is much smaller without all that grass in it, so getting into the game should be quicker.

DESTRUCTION! Sep 18, 2026

Added

Destruction multiplier - lamp posts, letterboxes, parking meters and phone boxes now feed a DESTRUCTION multiplier that stacks on top of your trick combo. Break some stuff, land some tricks, get that money. Crash the landing and you lose it.
Corner Store - new shop selling energy drinks with different buffs: faster feet, higher jumps, or both, for a minute or so. Still balancing, so for now drinks pause during time trials. Leaderboard times stay earned, not bought.
Trainer retired - permanent speed and jump upgrades are gone in favour of the drinks. Cars, paint and car upgrades are untouched.
Ring pickup animation - grabbed rings now fly up, spin out and shrink away instead of blinking out of existence. More dopamine per ring.
Compass - some of you finished the tutorial and didn't know where to go next. There is now a compass across the top of the screen and every Garage is marked on it at all times, even when it's behind you. Just point and drive.
Mode switch prompt - you lot are foaming at the mouth to drive, so the key for swapping between on foot and RC car now stays on screen, bottom left. It always shows your actual key bind.
Buff timers - active drinks show as round badges in the top left with a ring that drains as the buff runs out.
Trick readout - the destruction multiplier shows alongside AIR TIME and SPIN, and the whole readout has moved to the bottom right.
Abandon hint - hold to abandon now stays under the timer for the whole of a time trial, not only after you press the key.
Controls screen - back on startup.

Fixed

Ring sound - the pickup sound went missing in hosted sessions after rings were networked. They ring again.
Joiner rings - when joining another player's game, rings could be picked up on foot but not in the car. Fixed.
Trainer notice - removed a stray notice that replaced the controls screen on first load.

Fire Rings! Sep 17, 2026

Added

More ramps - the world was feeling a little void of things to do in RC mode, so I've added jumps all across the map. More ramps = more reasons to send it.
Fire rings - what you all wanted. I know. Fire rings are now scattered around the map and passing through one gives you a one time cash bonus. I may add an achievement based on how many you complete, but I'm not sure yet.
Grass - I thought grass might take away from the aesthetic, but it made a HUGE difference. The cars feel much more grounded now, like they're driving through the world instead of skating across the top of it.
Breakable props - mailboxes, phone boxes, parking meters and lamp posts are now breakable. No real benefit to destroying them yet other than making the world feel more interactive. Should destruction pay? I'm thinking about cash rewards for breaking props, possibly with multipliers for chaining destruction together. Let me know what you think.
Volumetric fog - this one is funny to me. A stylized, cartoon-esque game with realistic god rays... but what can I say? It just looks so damn good.
Night time lighting - it gets pretty dark at night in Sometimes Down, so lighting has always been on my mind. It will keep improving, but for now you've got street lamps to help out those of you who are scared of the dark.

**BIG update** Sep 15, 2026

Added

New Garage - preview, edit, upgrade and equip your vehicles from the new Garage Vendors (x2).
Hearse 💀 - new vehicle. Because why the hell not?
Tire marks - now based on your speed and trajectory.
Tricks - pull off sick flips, get point multipliers AND CASH, and rack up some crazy hang time!
New achievements - more things to accomplish and chase.
Time played leaderboard - new in game board for total time played. Put in the hours and prove it.

Fixed

Day/night cycle - should now be working properly. 🌅

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