Lup

Jank.

before i played this game i was lazy, suicidal, sad, and didnt do much aside sleeping. Nothing has changed but game is good.

It's a cute project, but it's honestly unfinished and not very fun. With some more work and fleshing out it could be fun, but unfortunately it's not there yet.

Sidescroller platform where you shoot stuff with a lupara shotgun, hence the game's name.

Innacurate sensitive controls, terrible visuals, awful sounds. 3/10

Don't buy games from this publisher!

This game was part of a Fanatical bundle I bought. I didn't activated this code (it's another one in my account). Now I wanted to give the unused codes to another person and this game, as same with every other game from this publisher, were revoked! Sell codes, let people pay them and revoke the keys is not only a shxx move, it's betrayal. They sell stuff with giving no return! There's no excuse for this behavior expecially bc they still sell the trouble making games here! Illegal, outrageous, shady!

I could say nothing about this game. It looks so bad as it was made within 30min and it's just to get quick earned money without any worth mentioning input. I will never waste my precious time for that (and I have no clue why past me claimed this one.... ok, I know it bc I activated everything just bc to have a game more. Now I wish there would be the possibility to delete pay titles from my bib. I'm ashamed to have such a game in it). Same for their other games, just with the difference that the paid games could not be tested bc their illegal move as additional reason.

(And following that: I advice to not to try to trade theirgames, including this one, with people you don't know. It will just cause a lot of useless trouble. Other people has the same problem and Fanatical agreed that all their exchange codes has been revoked too. So this is a problem in general. And not to gorget to say: Fanatical never warned their users. They claim never knowing about that troubles. As I confronted them with the fact that they know it now and if they do something against that (warning their users, confront the publisher,...) they just ignore that. Was a cramp to get some money back bc they see no responsibility on their part. So, even if it's absolutely no intention to fool you, a lot of users will not know that they offer a revoked game btw. you don't know that you offer a revoked game)

Terrible.

The camera movement made me feel sick within 2 minutes. It's directionless and feels unfinished.

+cheap card game


-too hard first level(u stuck on the gun)
-no info at the start about controls
-hard to understand where ur person

3/10

This game sucks. I got it in a bundle so it cost me less even than 99 cents but I can play better flash games online for free. Don't even bother. Its just pathetic.

Lup is yet another game in a line of shovelware released by publisher Back to Basics Gaming in an attempt to rake in quick money using steam trading cards. While I cannot say for certain whether it is a Unity asset flip (where a developer purchases cheap models and textures off the Unity Asset Store and attempts to "flip" it into a shovelware title for a profit), the possibility certainly exists given how the player character is an undetailed 2D sprite and most of the world is low-polycount 3D models that look like they came from several different artists.

This game is a bog-standard shovelware platformer in which you control a poorly-drawn sprite with a gun that fires lag-inducing particle effects, whose ultimate goal is to run through a handful of forgettable stages, avoiding lag-incuding particle effects shot from various enemies (most of which look like turrets taken from a stock Unity asset pack). Getting hit simply reduces your health by a wildly varying amount - most enemies do little damage, but some will kill you in one or two hits seemingly at random - and causes knockback in a random direction. There are also pits and "lava", which range in lethality from "tiny amount of damage and a ton of upwards knockback" to "your sprite has gotten stuck, please wait 50 seconds to die".

There are a whole bunch of game mechanics that simply don't matter, from picking up ammo boxes to upgrade your weapon (which seemingly does the same amount of damage regardless of upgrade level) to picking up coins and green orbs that as far as I can tell do absolutely nothing but increase your score.

I should also mention that the game's in-game menus do not work properly. There is no way (at least, that I know of) to return to the title screen from inside the game, nor is there a properly working "exit" button on the title screen - there is an exit button, but it doesn't actually do anything when clicked.

Lup can be finished in as little as 20 to 25 minutes in a casual playthrough. I have 8+ hours in it mostly because I have made poor life choices and chose to speedrun it as a way of increasing the visibility of shovelware on Steam.

Overall, this game is garbage and I would recommend that no one purchase anything from Back to Basics Gaming - even for the trading cards.

I bought this game for $.06 in a bundle during the summer sale and after completing the game in a half an hour I would say it is worth about that price. There are many issues with this and I only completed it because I was seeing how far I could get by simply running forward and shooting with occasional jumping.

The movement is clunky and causes frustration at times even when trying to jump over small obstacles. The combat consists of static turrets that fire from off screen and may or may not be destructable by your gun that inexplicably changes between every area. However, you have an abundant health pool that means you almost never have to worry about actually being hit by the turret.

The level design is also inconsistent with some areas having invisible walls and even invisible floors that insta-kill you when you touch them as well as absurd sudden changes in verticallity that keep you feeling lost the entire time. The only real sense of navigation you have is the need to travel right.

There is also no real story to this game even though there is some forced dialogue that hints at one and no consistent art style which makes the whole game look much less polished.

The only real redeeming quality I found in this game was the soundtrack which contained a surprising number of songs meant to fit the themes of the areas the play over and helped imrpove the mood of the game greatly.

Overall I can't recommend this game because the poor gameplay and lack of innovative ideas makes it a pretty repetative slog through confusing levels.

I swear, this is the worst fucking game on the planet. Controls and camera follow each other sort of?? They included walljumping, but hey did it so badly, it's shit to attempt to use. It's unresponsive and annoying to even walk. Gameplay is hard to understand and the screen is always cramped with weird and distracting things that ping you across the screen and are confusing to look at. Keys feel sticky when moving, and your trail (an aesthetic sin. such an eyesore) follows you round annoyingly. Characters are weird, since you play as a poorly drawn blue thing, with a badly drawn red fedora. Boring, scarce storyline, which only includes another character, who is also badly drawn, looks like a tramp, and has a pink cigarette? You can't even get past him, because he talks to you, and you can't move when he talks. Then, because the jumping mechanic is so badly made, you'll jhave to repeat talking to him again and again.
Don't buy this counter-intuitve, shitty platformer.

It took me 35 minutes to complete the game. To be completely honest there's little worth mentioning. I took me a few minutes to get used to the controls (a controller helps but it isn't necessary) but after that I just ran through the game. I wouldn't rebuy it even though it cost me next to nothing on sale.

I could go through every single thing the game has but none of the mechanics are worth talking about.

Ok, I've always been somebody who actually likes Steam greenlight. It gives people the chance to have their efforts seen, and get themselves out there a bit. You never know when a nice little gem will be found.
But this is an example of Greenlight gone wrong...

It's a simple little platformer, decent enough on the surface, but my god is it infuriating to play.
The background is confusing, often making you unsure of what can and can't be stood on, and what will and won't hurt you.
The same with objects. Pick up the green swirly things, but don't touch the identical looking pink/white swirly things, because they hurt.
Those dangerous looking explosions on the floor? They're perfectly safe bounce pad things!
Enemies: They're pretty much all stationary turrets. Some can be destroyed when shot, some can't. No real indication of whether or not one can be until you try.
Water will either hurt you, instantly kill you, or allow you to swim in it. The only way to find out which it will be is to jump in!
Even the final screen of the game is terrible. It says the end, and tries to thank you for playing, but half of the text goes off the screen! Are you serious??

The biggest redeeming feature (if you can call it redeeming) is that there seems to be no lives system, and checkpoints are everywhere, so you never lose much/any progress.
So you can push your way through if you have the patience for the horrible level design, and inconsistent mechanics, but there's little reason to...

Controls absolutely horribly. This kind of quality would be passable in a game jam, but not on Steam. Definitely one of the worst games I've played to date on Steam.

I'll just say I beat the game in 30 minutes. But... this game was really fun. It was a really fun cheap platformer that I'll be coming back to at points. The music was all really good. And the level progression felt pretty nice as well. It's obviously not the best platformer. It does leave you wanting more from it. But it is still a good game. Although the grammar is somewhat weird. Especially with the ending message. But I'd still say it works properly and still provides a decent amount of fun. And I don't normally like platformers.

A 6/10 but from the price it's worth it.

Surprisingly bad. I ran it for cards, played it a little just for curiousity. My curiousity ran out in under 2 minutes. Eventually the game crashed after the 2nd card dropped so I left the crash window open until I got the last card.

Developer: you want me to send you the crash files?

A pretty good little platformer.
Fedora could be more realistic by adding a Moustache to the character.
The camera doesn't always keep up with your character which is frustrating.
Could be good with some work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlml7F94Pg0

Go to Store (Featured), Click on Games, Narrow by Feature (Steam Trading Cards), Relevance (Lowest Price).
Then skip to Page 9 or 10, until you find the .50 - $1.00 games.
Add them to your Wishlist, games that are a dollar can go on sale and you may be able to purchase for cheap!
A game at .50 may give you that value back in trading cards.
Search and Install "Idle Master" which will run your games even without the game being installed.

I may or may not ever play this game, but some games I have installed and messed around with on a rainy day!
@ .50-$1.00 it's hard not to recommend!

Awesome game! A few minor glitches to fix, i did get stuck in the wall in Toxic Cave. And pretty, pretty please make the soundtrack available, its amazing!

This games seems like it could be good if the controls werent so terrible, why would you have ',' as run 'D' as shoot and arrow keys left and right to move and obviously space to jump , your fingers are all over the keyboard, if this game had better controls it would probably be enjoyable, overall dont get this game unless they do makes changes to the controls or make the controls changeable for your own liking.

This game has good music. And that's about all it has going for it.

The gameplay is aimless, the controls are unintuitive and slippery, there are severe slowdown issues, and the art is an incongruous mish-mash of placeholder programmer art, literal stock photos, and 3D assets that look like they'd be at home in Dota 2 or World of Warcraft.

We wrote a full review of the game in its current state on Cordilon Gaming: http://cordilongaming.net/greenlight-review-lup/