Zup! 3

Zup! 3

Worth it · Short indie · 2017

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99.

Length
0.9h
Value
$2.21/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.21
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
5,607 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Intel HD Graphics. Windows only.

Minimal physical puzzle with explosions
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$2.21/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length0.9 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 387 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.55, set in December 2024. It has been discounted 13 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! 7 ($1.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Zup! ($1.99, scores 75).

Of the 387 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 3,195 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 60 percent of everything written about it.

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 08:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Zup! 3 scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/575640/zup-3
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Reviews 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperQuiet River
PublisherQuiet River
GenreShort indie
Released2017