Zup! 4

Zup! 4

Worth it · Short indie · 2017

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99.

Length
0.8h
Value
$2.49/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.8h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.49
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
3,096 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$2.49/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length0.8 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
Refunds1 of 360 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

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 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! 3 ($1.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Zup! ($1.99, scores 75).

This site sampled 360 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 1,688 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

64% start to 51% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

More of the Same... and That's Not a Bad Thing By the time I reached Zup! 4 , I already knew exactly what kind of experience the series wanted to offer. The formula remains virtually unchanged from the previous entries, and honestly, I don't think that's a problem. Sometimes it's nice to play a game that doesn't try to reinvent itself every time, especially when the core gameplay is already enjoyable. The Perfect...
ᗩᒪᑭᕼᗩ ᖴO᙭Recommendedafter 1.2hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Zup! 4 scores 77/100 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/591420/zup-4
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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
Achievements555