The Upper Hand
Short description
Climb, and adapt in The Upper Hand, a rock climbing deckbuilding platformer where you scale challenging levels as Gen-0. Beat stages, unlock achievements to score points, and evolve your abilities using our deck-builder and pose system to forge your own path to the top.
- Developer
- Brain Syringe Studios LLC
- Publisher
- Brain Syringe Studios LLC
- Release
- Fri, Jun 20, 2025
- Price
- $4.99
- Reviews
- 6
- Positive
- 100%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Adventure, Casual, Indie, Strategy
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $4.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 16, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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