Q-UP strips away competitive pretense and replaces ranked matchmaking with pure chance: flip coins to climb or plummet through ranks while accumulating currency and optimizing your algorithm's variables. It's equal parts idle clicker and multiplayer satire, where wild swings in progression and absurd number growth replace skill-based advancement, appealing to players who enjoy both the satisfying grind of watching metrics inflate and the darkly comic deconstruction of competitive gaming's frustrations.
About this game
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator, and 100% completely random.
What players are saying
▲ Recommended2 hrs
I lost one game 0-3 and went from Diamond 5 down to Bronze 1. I lost the next game 1-3 and was back in plat. Game of the year.
The coin flips.
I rank up 50 times and the resulting dopamine release sends me past Buddhist enlightenment.
The coin flips.
I am back at the lowest possible rank and the shock sends me into immediate cardiac arrest.
The coin flips.
The resulting Q I gain is 15 orders of magnitude greater than everyone else in the lobby and the elation wrests me from death and restarts my heart.
The coin flips.
Do not play this game if you ever want to enjoy crack, Q-UP reaches heights so celestial that repenting for your sins and reaching Heaven would be like a centimetre to Andromeda.
It's about optimizing an algorithm with swappable variable positions.
Also, about enjoying the satirization of modern game mechanics.
If you like seeing a number go up, then this game is for you.
And for those that are worried - the multiplayer has no actual means to impede you and it does not slow down the game - in fact it only serves to help you since teammates can have abilities that benefit you. Also, you can peek their gear by hovering their icon for ideas. If you really don't want to deal with it, there is an option in the settings to make you only play against bots.
Hey everyone, We're excited to announce a free update for Q-UP, live now! The Hacker Update A brand new hacker character who comes with their own roguelike way of playing the game! Permadeath. Race against the clock to rank up before being deleted.Drafting. Select every skill from a set of 3 random choices, so every hacker run will be a unique combination of skills. Steal your skills. The hacker's skills and signature abilities are stolen from the existing characters, allowing for crazy broken combos that frankly we haven't tested. 3 Difficulty Modes. Normal, hard and impossible -- the game's hardest challenge yet! Other ChangesQuality of life changes including permanent Turbo speed unlock.Bugfixes and balance tweaks. Fixed several crashes, softlocks and disconnection issues. This new mode is our personal favorite way to play the game now, it really tests your ability to juggle all of the game's different systems and understand how they work together to stay alive. For anyone that enjoyed the core game, we think the Hacker is the most fun and replayable way to dive deeper into Q-UP. In celebration of this update and the holiday season, the game is also on a 25% discount! I don't really need to explain discounts to you, but this is a good time to buy the game because it is less expensive than usual. -j&f&m&j
Hey everyone! Thanks again to everyone who played Q-UP. We feel incredibly privileged to have been able to share our unique vision with you guys and see it resonate with many of you. A quick status report for the dev side: we're hard at work on an update that we plan on launching sometime before the holiday season assuming no development catastrophes. Some of the things this update will contain are: A number of quality of life fixes, including an account-wide turbo mode unlockA number of bug, crash and softlock fixesA new game mode with a new character that represents a more replayable version of Q-UP.Long term, we don't plan on having a constant barrage of content as if it were a real live service game, but we will continue to provide QoL and hotfix support as appropriate. Happy flipping! -j&f&m&j
Hey y'all, Extremely small patch today. Most of our hotfixes got folded up into the patch that went out on Firday, so this is just some small fixes.Buffed Pro's RNGSUS skill from 10% chance -> 20% chance Doubled Q gain of Pro's Fatality skill at all levels (We felt like Pro had a significantly harder time with Q losses than the other two starting characters during the back half of the game. These changes are intended to make climbing to Novice on the Pro easier. We don't expect them to make a huge difference in Novice League though, we'll discuss how we want to approach Novice League balance in a future patch.) Fixed the tooltip on FyreIce and IceFyre lasers to correctly represent their gameplay. Fixed several typos. I can't wait to flip again! -james
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