Zup! Zero

Zup! Zero

Worth it · Shooter · 2017

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99.

Length
0.7h
Value
$2.84/hr
Reviews
93% positive
It needs 23% off ($1.53) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.84
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
2,748 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
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
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$2.84/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length0.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ 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
Refunds4 of 371 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

It has never been cheaper than $0.55. That was 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.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is cheaper than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! F ($1.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Zup! Zero 2 ($1.99, scores 79).

This site sampled 371 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 1,419 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

57% start to 42% 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

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This game does not have e-sports potential. This game allows for cortisol free gaming experience.
sefryyRecommendedafter 2.4hJul 2026Read on Steam
Starting at the beginning. Where the legend began. BUY THE GAME TO FIND OUT MORE!
NathanYaMuttRecommendedafter 2.0hMar 2026Read on Steam
Zeros fly like in a kaleidoscope every level is an attention test and I still don't see victory here.
🍀 WinteraidRecommendedafter 4.9hMar 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! Zero scores 80/100 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/610360/zup-zero
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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
GenreShooter
Released2017
Achievements1043