Going Up vs TENSEI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Going Up
A strategy game where you manage skyscraper elevators to efficiently deliver diverse passengers. Optimize lift movement through increasingly complex systems and unique character behaviors to achieve high scores.
- Manage skyscraper elevators
- Deliver passengers efficiently
- Adapt to complex lift systems
- Deal with unique passenger characters
- Compete on global leaderboards
- Discover different skyscraper environments
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"The vibes here are impeccable" —Vice "Fast, simple, solid, and challenging" —PocketGamer Going Up is a strategy game where you control groups of lifts in a skyscraper to deliver passengers before they lose their patience. Optimise elevator movement as you deal with a fussy cast of passengers—impatient CEOs, mean soldiers and confused tourists. There is no one solution to elevator optimisation: every stage will have its unique bottlenecks, passengers and problems. Can you keep people moving, or will they have to take the stairs? • Deliver your passengers: manage elevators in a skyscraper to deliver passengers up and down to their destinations as efficiently as possible. • Adapt to complex situations: learn to manage increasingly complicated systems of lifts, from multiple lifts, to lifts that operate on different sets of floors, to lifts that completely skip floors. • Placate fussy characters: deal with a cast of seven unique characters, from impatient CEOs to mean soldiers to confused tourists. Learn their behaviours to score the greatest number of points from each of them. • Rack up high scores: compete on a global leaderboard to gain the most points in each level. • Ascend the mysterious skyscraper: discover different environments on each level, playing with different sets of lifts as you climb to the very top. • Play on the go: play one handed, while commuting, queuing in line, or waiting for the lift. Every round lasts at most a few minutes.
TENSEI
Embark on a serene journey of self-discovery through an ultra-casual endless action game. Leap and fall through calming Zen landscapes, mimicking the flow of ink on paper, to escape daily stress and find deep immersion.
- Ultra-casual endless action gameplay
- Soothing Zen landscapes
- Relaxed journey into the sky
- Immersive experience
- Brush stroke-like movement
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An experience of self-discovery set in soothing Zen landscapes. "Tensei" is an ultra-casual endless action game. Leap and fall over and over in the style of a brush flowing across paper, and go on a relaxed journey into the sky. Leave the hectic routine of life behind for a chance to enjoy this deeply immersive experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TENSEI at 4.9 against Going Up's 4.3. TENSEI also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Going Up's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Going Up costs $1.99 and TENSEI $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TENSEI holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 43 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Going Up's written reviews are positive against 100% of TENSEI's.
Going Up ships an update fortnightly, TENSEI every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Going Up | TENSEI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (43 ratings) | 4.9 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 405 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Napping Raccoon | NEURON AGE CO.,LTD. |
Customer experience
Going Up
TENSEI
In-app purchases
Going Up
No in-app purchases
TENSEI
No in-app purchases









