Fill Up!

Fill Up! is a pointless restaurant management platespinning type screen tapper/clicker game from HeadUp (who weirdly are trying to hide their involvement with this). Although this time, the restaurant is replaced with a petrol station and you drag and drop the cars to the bowsers.

As featured in hundreds of mobile apps, gameplay here is a woeful routine of platespinning... that is to say, you need to tap on your iPhone screen to satisfy various customers as they come in and take care of other little busywork jobs. You'll soon find yourself tapping away madly at your iPhone as you have so many customers all at once! Surely the iPhone is the greatest gaming platform of all time, so understandably the developer wants you to pay them for this free mobile app garbage on Steam.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.

The game features mostly static, barely animated 2D images, the kind of thing you expect to see in browser/flash games. I'm pretty sure all the pixel-ish art assets are probably flipped stock assets, too. The visual presentation here is negligible, it might as well be a slideshow or a Youtube video. Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids had more advanced animation and visuals going on than this game does.

The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio, due to the age of the game, it predates the 16:9 widescreen gaming standard established back in 2006. It's possible they're marketing this towards people using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game is being specifically marketed towards people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. It's obviously not going to look right on a modern 16:9 gaming display.

The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.

This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all).

Regardless, for all intents and purposes Fill Up! might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 10 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

Fill Up! is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 9,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

Story missions are bugged. Seems not to be tested before release at all

Only play if you want something to numb your brain into oblivion

The earth is 4.6 billion years old and we managed to exist at the same time as this masterpiece.

I purchased this game for $0.63 USD...and I feel that it is still too much. This game is beyond frustrating. I cannot change the difficulty level, and it is causing me far more stress than I would expect for what is billed as a simple game. STAY AWAY! Do not make the same mistake I did.

Got a coupon for this game while leveling badges... Got it for a mere cents.

Mere cents is way more than what this game is worth. If anything this game is so bad I'd switch it with most basic Facebook games out there. THEY should have been paying me mere cents for me to play this...

I GUESS my four years old daughter MIGHT find this interesting enough to waste the better part of half an hour on this...

Easy made with low resolution. It's good to skip a short break or something.

One of the worst games I've ever played. After nearly 13 years of gaming this game is one of those games I will highlight in the High Score of the worst games at rank 1. The idea could have come from a developer out of the 80's. Someone who is thrown into the nice world of creating games. But for now we are lot's of years later. And people can compare their work with the once from the others.

If this game would only come with a catchy art work. But not even this. The graphics are poor, the sound horrowable, the mechanics inexistent. Pulling cars from the track to the refill station and wait till you grinded enough money to upgrade your tankstation to been able to refill the next cars. And so far I have to rate this game with at least 1 out of 10. Because the creator didn't lie when he named his game "Fill Up!". You wont do anything else. But 2,99 Bucks for a concept of game isn't worth at all. Not even gifted!

A time management game should keep things interesting by adding new challenges or the occasional random bonus, but this game doesn't do that. I only managed to play the first four levels before I completely lost interest but every single level was the same... red car? Drag it on the red icon. Black car? Drag it on the black icon, repeat ad infinitum.
As you progress you need to build more and more stations (colours) to drag the cars on to, and there you have the game. You're going up against a time limit and have to juggle the non-stop drag&drop of cars against the need to upgrade existing structures, build new ones, and buy resources.

The story is told through comic panels in awkward English translated from German but is ultimately uninteresting.

Stay away from this one, there are far better time management games on Steam.

An idea with potential, poorly executed here. The art is okay, but the interface and gameplay choice for this theme just doesn't work well. Even if you are a fan of rapid drag and drop gameplay, you'll probably still be disappointed here, as the interface causes you to grab the wrong vehicle, or not accept your placement of it as you drop. Construction does pause the game, but it jumps out of pause as you as you click something, which is quite disorienting.

I picked it up on sale for less than a dollar, thinking perhaps the few reviews were not a clear picture, but I should have listened to them, and I recommend you do as well. Skip this.

First things first, this game works fine for me in Windows 10.

With an odd mixture of German and English text, this game seems like a half-hearted attempt to reach a larger audience than it would otherwise have. The tutorial is minimal, but I did pick the gist of the game quickly enough I suppose. The graphics look fairly dated and generic, but are serviceble enough I suppose.

The game play was the weakest part for me. Basically the player is tasked with picking up vehicles with various thought-balloon "wants' and then dropping them at the appropiate venue. Varous venues can be built, but several require the currency of "Bonuses" as well as in game money. This one got very boring and repetitous for me very quickly.

Oddly, that doesn't mean it's easy. One has to periodically restock one's venues, which is fair enough. The problem is that I even dragging and dropping as quickly as I could, I found the restock fee negated any profit I was turning. So I can add the word "fustrating" to the list of things that describe this game.

I got it during a 40% sale, for the price $1.79. I don't have high hopes for games that run that cheap, so I guess I can say it's a fair value, if drag and drop games appeal to you. For my part though, I wish I had given this one a pass.

Ich spiele Spiele "bevorzugt" in "O-Ton" .. gerade sowas von Ascaron wie zB Sacred hatte seinen Charme auf Deutsch

so if there's an English translation that still has buttons such as Menü, Neustart oder a default profile name "spieler 1" etc.

you might as well offer an in-game language changing option therefore (not sure if the language adjusts to your Steam settings, of if they just put that translation into Steam and that's all there is)

Außerdem gibt's Missionen in denen man wohl auf quasi-RNG angewiesen ist, um's vor'm Ablauf der Zeitspanne zu schaffen (oder früh genug das Gebäude stehen haben muss, damit die Chance hoch genug ist :P) andererseits wäre's ja zu einfach wenn die Chance "künstlich zu hoch" wäre, oder is' sie es schon? hmm

so I guess those 3 capital letters were the hint about my "soft complaint"
which is not a big thing though because it only once happened that I had "not enough luck" for a misson to complete it within time

all in all it's not a bad game, although it at times more feels like a drag fast and that's it, than other time management games which have materials and buildings that rely on each other or have sort of steps or prerequisites in order to work

in this game you rather just pull cars to the appropriate spot as fast as you can, so to some .. or many people, that might appear a bit dull :P

you'll run around a lot with your cursor, that gives the feel that the touch device version of it is not as "hard to bare" or rather encourages you more to play on, for taking less effort

(does that sound arrogant? I mean you can't move your mouse around for "not worth it" all the time, eh :>) you could regard that as sports for your arm/hand too though, hoping it won't weigh more towards unhealthy than helpful ... hmm am I doing this ergonomically enough???

just get a Steam Controller >.< and there you go, wish the touch options on that thing had a quick sensivity "zoom" or a acceleration that adapts to an enough filigree-degree

still it's not "sooo schlecht" (no that doesn't mean slobbering licks, watch the "ch" sound^^) then again

so I'll give it a thumbs up .. if you bought it for or below 2 € it's probably okay for that price

Game is not supported by current gen OS. When brought up in Task Manager, it says that it's not responding. Won't run.