Zup! Zero 2

Zup! Zero 2

Worth it · Short indie · 2018

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99, a BANGER if it drops to $1.46.

Length
0.6h
Value
$3.32/hr
Reviews
95% positive
It needs 27% off ($1.46) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.32
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
1,329 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

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
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$3.32/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length0.6 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
Refunds2 of 341 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. It has been discounted 13 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales. Past sales have already crossed the $1.46 BANGER line 13 times.

Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! 5 ($1.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Zup! ($1.99, scores 75).

Of the 341 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 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 636 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 0.6 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 2.0 times as long.

The drop-off

43% start to 30% 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 Formula I Enjoy Zup! Zero 2 doesn't make any drastic changes compared to Zup! Zero , but honestly, I didn't mind at all. The familiar physics puzzles, explosions and quick solutions are still here, with plenty of levels and achievements to keep me busy. It's a simple formula, but one that I clearly enjoy, because once again I found myself playing through the whole thing without much effort. I really...
ᗩᒪᑭᕼᗩ ᖴO᙭Recommendedafter 1.2h12 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Mug exploded beat it in a minute now wife yells where coffee I yell its fitness neighbors think fireworks I already podium kitchen
🍀 WinteraidRecommendedafter 4.3hApr 2026Read on Steam
44 minutes to finish all levels. The originality is gone, this part is just more of the same easy boring levels. Also, they took away that bit of satisfying perfection, and replaced it with chaos, some levels you can only win with some luck, a lot of levels have useless yellow-ball-rains, were they could've just added one ball to drop at the right spot.
Tostiman UltimateNot recommendedafter 4.6h2 found this helpfulRead 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 2 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/658550/zup-zero-2
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperQuiet River
PublisherQuiet River
GenreShort indie
Released2018
Achievements777