Rise Up review: The most challenging and fun game

Rise Up
Get it For: Free for iOS and Android

This physics game is incredibly frustrating but also unputdownable — you are tasked with protecting a balloon as it rises through various obstacles.


With a single finger, you have to drag a circle around it to deflect the objects and obstacles that appear. It looks interesting because the balloon is actually static on the screen while everything else moves around it. There are only simple shapes and colours — nothing to distract you from your task.

Each type of obstacle requires a different kind of strategy on your part — you need to either calmly flick, push, move from side to side, deflect from a distance or maniacally shunt that circle in a trial-and-error effort to save that balloon.

There are full screen ads after every few games/lives lost. It’s a bit jarring that the game is silent though the ads are not. These ads can be removed with a one-time, in-app purchase of Rs 150.