The Upper Hand
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.
Last Updated: 1/3/2026
| Steam Price | $3.49 |
| Release Date | 6/20/2025 |
| Developer | Brain Syringe Studios LLC |
| Publisher | Brain Syringe Studios LLC |
| Steam App Id | 3095030 |
The Upper Hand
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.
Last Updated: 1/3/2026
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- Linux
About The Upper Hand
The Upper Hand is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, Strategy, and Early Access game developed by Brain Syringe Studios LLC. On 6/20/2025, it was released on the Steam Store by Brain Syringe Studios LLC.
It can be played and ran on Windows systems. At the moment, there is no confirmed information regarding Steam Deck support for this game.
According to Steam’s category system, The Upper Hand supports the following features:
- Single-player
- Family Sharing
From the Steam community, The Upper Hand has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Card Game
- Character Customization
- Nonlinear
- Parkour
- Fantasy
- Tutorial
- Platformer
- Tactical
- Aliens
- Pixel Graphics
- Deckbuilding
- 2D Platformer
- Family Friendly
- Puzzle Platformer
- Sci-fi
- Strategy
- Casual
- Colorful
- Action
- Adventure
- Singleplayer
- Physics
- 2D
Media & Sceenshots
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Related Packages
The Upper Hand is referenced by 1 package in the Steam Store. A package (or sub) is simply an item that can be purchased on Steam.
| Name | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| The Upper Hand | $4.99 | View |
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