Zup! 8
BANGER · Short indie · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $1.53/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
It has never been cheaper than $0.55. That was December 2024. 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 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Zup! 2 ($1.99, scores 90) and Zup! 5 ($1.99, scores 85).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $3.66. It costs $1.99.
1 of the 449 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 2,030 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
63% start to 38% 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
What players say
Still Simple, With a Small Extra Twist Zup! 8 keeps the same minimalist formula I've come to expect from the series, but this time the addition of moving platforms gives some of the puzzles a slightly different feel. Nothing that changes the experience dramatically, but it's a nice little touch that keeps things from feeling completely identical to the previous entries. I completed it 100% in 69 minutes, and once...
Differently than earlier games, platform moving mechanics added to this game. Very well done! However, my favorite will always be the portals <3
"Two things are infinite: the universe and the Zup series; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zup! 8 scores 93/100 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/799070/zup-8Reviews 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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