Co-op physics-based building game What Goes Up announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC

Publisher Team17 and developer Bossa Games have announced What Goes Up, a cooperative physics-based building game coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store in 2026.

Here is an overview of the game, via Team17:

About

Welcome to the glamorous world of refuse relocation.

Congratulations. You have been selected for employment with GALACTIC REFUSE CO., the galaxy’s most ambitious provider of high-risk junk removal solutions.

Your job is simple: land on dangerous planets strewn with Earth’s finest discarded garbage, and build whatever it takes to get the job done and the junk on the recovery ship. Sometimes that means a towering monument of refuse. Sometimes it means multiple smaller towers or perhaps a sideways tower, or what less visionary employees might call “a bridge.”

Whether you approach the job with careful planning, a steady hand and at least a rudimentary understanding of physics, or just start hurling bath tubs at your friends and hope for the best, the goal is the same: build big, build tall, and don’t let it all come crashing down

No matter what your approach, the GALACTIC REFUSE CO. will be here to reprint you when you fail until you get the job done

One stacker’s trash is another stacker’s treasure
What do a hot dog cart, a solar panel and a rusty old bath have in common? Technically, none of them should be used as load-bearing materials, but that’s what you’re working with. Stack, balance and jury rig all kinds of junk into towering monuments to bad decisions.

Absolutely every bit of junk has the potential to be structurally integral—grab whatever you can and get stacking.

Lofty Ambitions

You’ll need a head for heights and a healthy respect for lateral thinking. As each mission unfolds, you’ll stack, climb, hover, bounce and improvise your way through awkward terrain, placing the next perfect piece of rubbish as you craft your haphazard masterpiece

Build up to reach new heights. Build across to cross gaps. Build multiple towers to solve messy physics puzzles that no responsible company would ever approve.

Tools for the Job

Use your GALACTIC REFUSE CO.-approved equipment to shift, lift, fling and generally argue with the laws of physics.

Grav guns help you move and place junk. Hover packs help you reach awkward spots and recover wayward trash. Bounce pads help launch stackers, junk and carefully planned strategies into the air. Training is provided. Results may vary.

Unsafe Working Conditions

Refuse relocation may involve hazards including, but not limited to: lava rivers, electric hazards, meteor showers, unstable structures, hot junk, falling junk, inept colleagues, bounce pad miscalculations and structural embarrassment.

Please remain calm. Replacements are being printed.

A Highly Professional Crew

The work’s dirty, but you and your extremely professional crew will be doing it in style—Stackers will find snazzy outfits helpfully left among the junk to properly motivate top tier performance.

Plan together, build together, panic together and blame each other when the bathtub everyone agreed was load-bearing turns out not to be.

Play solo or cooperatively as you solve missions, stack junk, survive hazards and extract with as much dignity as the company handbook still legally promises.

Watch the announcement trailer below.

Announce Trailer