Q-UP

This game has its q-ups and its q-downs. In terms of gameplay, I really only had to rethink my strategies every few hours, and I just kept poking at it on my side monitor until the game was ready for me to use my brain again. I was tolerant with some the "bad" aspects of the game considering that they served the satirical narrative about issues in modern gaming, however reading the emails was the most enjoyable part, so... couldn't all this have just been an email?

Don't believe the negative reviews this is an underrated game. The PVP satire is just a facade for an in-depth game about optimization and probability. You have to think the game is more of like Factorio, Satisfactory, or any automation game. It's a puzzle game

Q-Up is a weird little game and I think your enjoyment of it is going to stem almost entirely from how much you enjoy the joke that permeates every corner of it; that being, "what if skill-based matchmaking went so far that a game was boiled down to a literal 50/50 coinflip, but everybody still treated it as if it were a deathly-serious skill-based game." You'll get developer emails personally apologizing to you if you lose three flips in a row, interns reaching out to try to figure out your improbable luck if you win three in a row, and so on. I, personally, found this entire concept hilarious, and I admittedly have a little too much fun shouting at the developers whenever I lose a coin flip and pretending like they're making me lose. Outside of that, the game is basically an incremental game; you get skills and equipment you use to make your number go up, so you can climb up through the ranks and see the game's story. It's all about finding the most broken combinations possible. I personally found it a lot of fun in short bursts, and there's a variety of characters all with unique mechanics you can try. Admittedly, every strategy does just kind of boil down to stacking triggers to make your multiplier and base Q number go up as much as possible. Maybe not super great after a ton of replays, but I've definitely gotten my time and money's worth out of it. Worth a look, especially on sale.

Very boring. Skill tree is confusing. Game was overwhelmingly positive when I got it, ya'll bamboozled me

I wish i was better at writing reviews. I love this game, even at 2 hours in. The gameplay top notch with a nice aesthetic and really nice music that I've already added to my playlist. Making a build, then seeing all of your nodes pop off when you hit a flip is just so cool. I love the writing, hilarious with a coherent story and I'm excited to read each email and I'm the type of person who reads everything. Huge fan of the humor and all the little things that brings this unique game together.

You gotta want it. You're not going to make it to the top without the will to win. THE NEED TO WIN. Fun game though.

The build system here is the actual game. Once you have level 50 and access to a large set of gear there's actually a decent number of decision points. The grind to get there sucks a bit though