
A short classic point-and-click adventure with a verb-based interface and dialogue choices, where you explore a strange building, meet unsettling characters, and slowly uncover a dark, ancient secret.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Media

About

Upstairs is a short point-and-click game with a verb-based interface and dialogue choices, inspired by all those classic adventures you’re thinking of right now.

You’ve been trapped for years. Now you finally have a chance to escape.
Find your way through a strange building full of unsettling people, dark humor, and strange mysteries. Every floor brings you closer to freedom… or deeper into an ancient, terrible secret.
Upstairs has been carefully crafted, late at night and piece by piece, by a single developer using Unity, Adventure Creator and Aseprite.

-Short, focused experience (about 1–2 hours)
-Classic point-and-click gameplay
-Verb-driven interface with a visible inventory
-Handcrafted pixel art
-A happy ending
-A friendly severed head you can talk to (responses are not guaranteed)
-No AI-generated content

MOUSE - Interact with the world
ESC - open the game menu

A game by Jaime Herrero
Original Music: The Coven
"Watch the Skyline Catch Fire" by Of the Wand & the Moon, written by Kim Larsen, distributed by Tesco Distribution Germany
Cover art and logo by Clara Soriano.
---------------------------------------
Upstairs is a small personal project made during late nights. If it sticks with you after finishing it, sharing your thoughts on Steam means a lot.

Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 40 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Отличный короткий point-and-click на час-полтора с черным юмором. Я, кстати, сделал русификатор, на днях выложу в раздел Центр сообщества)
Short and cheap bite-sized horror point and click game. There's about 90 minutes or so here (give or take 30 minutes depending on how fast you solve the puzzles) and the story, dark humor and puzzles are alright. Nothing exceptional, but for the price it's pretty good.
I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed playing this game. It looked great. It sounded great the humour and it was spot-on and it really took me back to playing old style point and click games from when I was a kid 30+ years ago which is a crazy thing to think about saying now. Do yourself a favour by this game. You won’t regret it.
Charming little game with an amazing sense of humor and memorable characters. It will take you 1 or 2 hours to finish it. The puzzles are clever and not random, which. Ideal for a lazy afternoon alone or in company. Also, the Spanish texts are *chef-kiss* 💖
I admit I expected "upstairs" to be something a little more mindbending and increasingly bizarre than literally going up one flight of stairs, but!! I enjoyed this. I enjoy lunchbreak-size point & clicks with outrageously stupid endings, and boy does this have a stupid ending (in a good way that makes sense). My sweet idiot child, why did you not listen. One thing I'll say is that, yes, the fact that you get presented a few VERY useful options that are simply there to mislead you but don't work at all can be a bit frustrating. They absolutely should be there, yes! But I feel if the kid at least did attempt something with a few of them but it quickly and very obviously doesn't work, it would be nice for a few extra chuckles and not make you want to yell at him to be a bit more creative. On the other hand, in retrospect, plain not caring about what YOU want to try is quite in-character, it's just not that obvious when you first start playing. Oh yeah, and the two times I got stuck for a bit were both because the right-click deceived me, as sometimes it makes you "use" things and other times it makes you just "look at" them, so I entirely missed that I could, say, [spoiler]open the fridge[/spoiler]. But that's a super-nitpick and a bit of a my-bad. That said, though, silly, morbid, a good few memorable characters and fun details, nice puzzles, and the graphics, animation and sounds all fit really well together, enough to make me want to see more like this. Also, good ending song!
Juego bastante cortito y disfrutón si quieres pasarte algo de chill y pensar un poco.
I probably got 10 hours of SOLID gameplay for 3 bucks, totally good deal. Not as short as people are saying if you don't try to power through the game. Took me a few days to finish playing organically after getting stuck on a couple of puzzles. Polished game, great story and cool vibe!
Primero mi más sincera admiración por crear este juego partiendo desde cero conocimiento. BRAVO! Y puedo decir que es un buen juego, porque me he estancado en varios puntos XD y esa sensación de llegar al punto de mezclar cosas inverosímiles, simplemente, me encanta XD.
Nice little P&C diversion. Certainly worth a couple bucks and an hour of your time.
That's a nice (and dark!) little one! Do spend the three bucks. :D Runs all fine natively on Linux!
Related
Related
Trends
Concurrent players on Steam, sampled daily since tracking started.
Audience
Estimated from the language of this game's reviews — a proxy for where players are, not official Steam demographics.
Related
| The Rotting Man | 悪臭男 | $3.5K | 68 | 60% | $2.99 |
| Little Lighthouse of Horror | $3.5K | 68 | 88% | $2.99 |
| Cute Girl | $3.5K | 139 | 76% | $0.99 |
| Retro Kart Rush | $3.5K | 57 | 100% | $2.99 |
| Archery | $3.5K | 116 | 54% | $0.99 |
| 成土市的我 CTcity | $3.5K | 56 | 86% | $3.99 |