Zup! 9
BANGER · Short indie · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.2h
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Intel HD Graphics. Windows only.
Minimal physical puzzle with explosions
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.55. 13 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! 8 ($1.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Zup! F ($1.99, scores 88).
The math says it holds its tier up to $3.30, and you are being asked for $1.99.
Of the 367 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 1,009 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
55% start to 33% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 13:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Another Little Zup! Break Zup! 9 keeps things nice and simple, with the same relaxing physics-based puzzles I've been enjoying throughout this series. There isn't a dramatic change in the formula, although the new cubes add a small touch of variety to the levels. By now, these games have become a familiar part of my work routine. Whenever I have a little time during the day, I can simply sit down at the office PC...
simple and addictive puzzle game the levels are fun to figure out and the explosions make it more satisfying than i expected
The only reason I bought it was for the profile background. I don't get all the positive reviews - maybe there's something wrong with me, or is the game just weird? Okay, I admit I'm not a fan of puzzles, but I passed all the levels like it was nothing. So I had to wait until I had 2 hours of playtime to buy the background. Overall, the game is too short, has too many useless duplicates of the same achievement (what...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Zup! 9 scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1098340/zup-9Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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