Q-UP

It just doesn't click with me. I stepped away and started a new run with a different character and same issue. I don't enjoy the meta, infact it makes it impossible to look up useful info or help. They run out of content pretty early in a run, and it's exactly the same in different runs/with different characters. I never found some magical synergy that made me feel OP, or even made this a fun experience. If you're looking for a typical clicker, progressive/incremental, number go up game, I wouldn't recommend this.

A delicious optimisation puzzle paired with hilarious satire of the live service multiplayer industrial complex. Get out of ranked queue and play this instead.

The premise of Q-Up is fun, and it undoubtedly manages to create a game with skills to activate, items, and challenges—all from a simple coin toss. That said, the game doesn’t make it easy to understand the mechanics and often explains them poorly (for example: I didn’t figure out how the shop’s recycling system worked until literally the last hour of play). I can see skilled players managing to figure out exactly how to create a perfect build, but honestly, I played the game by buying items and placing abilities on the grid somewhat at random. By this I mean that the game has a precise structure and is rarely a matter of chance (irony obviously intended for a game where you flip a coin), but for a player who doesn’t have much time to invest in the meta, it isn’t easy enough to grasp even gradually, as other “big numbers get bigger” games do. That said... the story is wonderful. Having worked in the video game industry for 8 years, I laughed a lot reading the emails you receive after each encounter. In MY opinion, definitely the best part of the game.