
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.
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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.
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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.

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Languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
Surprisingly fun game, with a solid script. Might gonna replay it someday in the future. Looking forward to their next games!
zabrakło mi szybszego przemieszczania. Poza tym fajna gierka dla tych którzy lubią gatunek
excelente. hubiese amado que dure más. el juego es corto. pero me encantó la historia, el humor, la estética, absolutamente todo es espectacular.
This was a really fun little point and click experience. Even though the subject matter is quite dark, the game doesn't take itself too seriously. And I promise you, you can't predict the ending. I definitely recommend it!
Loved, loved, loved this little adventure. Fingers crossed that there’s more like this to come from the dev! Interesting story, fun gameplay, good puzzles, and obviously gorgeous pixel art. Nothing NOT to love here, except that it ended…
The game is short, but very entertaining. The pixel art, animations, all of that is very cute, even the gore and disturbing things, that's the power of big pixels!
That's a nice (and dark!) little one! Do spend the three bucks. :D Runs all fine natively on Linux!
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!
I have have no experience with this genre, so I was very lost until I started paying attention to everything and a lot of trial and error. The story is cute and I like the strange characters and interaction. I would say if you get stuck, look at every thing and really pay attention to how the main character reacts to the world bc the path forward isn't the most obvious. Felt refreshing to play something that just threw you in without any context or direction. Lastly even though the game is short, there is a lot of description and interactions with almost everything, which helped build the quirky tone of the world.
Bastante entretenido para pasar un rato y despejarse. No es muy largo pero vale el tiempo que se le pueda dedicar por curiosidad. Tiene potencial aún para varios finales que así sin pensar demasiado, hasta a mí se me ocurren; siempre siguiendo el tono de humor negro del mismo juego especialmente en la parte del ritual al final con todo lo que se podría hacer y salir peor que mal.
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