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About This Game

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Upshift is a racing sport on live TV. You fly down a tunnel of rings, every ring wired to the music, through five venues from a sunset coast to a city in the rain. The network wants speed. So does the crowd. If they get bored, you're cancelled.

What you're doing

• Threading rings. Every bar is a wall. The wide gap is safe. The small slots and needles inside it pay more, and threading them in a row builds a chain, up to ×11.
  
• Climbing the gears. Hold to climb, 2nd to 6th. Every gear is faster, pays more and wins the crowd. Hold too long and the rings come faster than you can read them. Brake when you need to.
  
• Keeping the crowd. Slots and speed win viewers. Cruising loses them. Lose them all and you're off the air.
  
• Bullet time. The world slows to a crawl. Your steering doesn't. Threading rings refills it.
  
• Reprieves. A pink copy of your craft waits in some slots. Thread it and it takes a hit for you.

The show

Every race is against the network's own pilots and tonight's intake of new contestants, ranked live. There are commentators, a chat with opinions and sponsors who want things from you. None of it needs your attention. The rings do.

Modes

• The tour. 30 levels across five worlds, each new thing taught where you first meet it. Bronze, silver and gold.
  
• Today's helix. A new course every day, the same for everyone. Practise it as much as you like. You get three ranked runs at the board.
  
• Overtime. Stage after stage, your score and reprieves carried on, until you crash out.
  
• A short training to start, about five minutes.

And

• Every ranked run is flown again on the server from your inputs, so nobody fakes the board.
  
• 157 looks for your craft (ships, tails, ring colours and crash effects), bought with credits you win racing. None of it makes you faster, and nothing is for sale for real money. Yes, you can fly a rubber duck. And a toaster. And a piano.
  
• Keyboard or controller. Tested on Steam Deck.

Photosensitivity warning: Upshift is full of flashing lights and patterns that may trigger seizures in some people. There's a setting that tones down the flashing and screen shake (F5), but if you're sensitive to this kind of thing, please be careful.
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