GAMES WE LOVE

Fill ’Er Up!

The cup is mightier than the sword in these cute RPG battles.

Your to-go coffee may never look the same once you play Cup Heroes. Every time your hero defeats a demon or zombie in this pixel-art RPG, a little white ball plops into your cup. Between clashes, dump the balls into a zany contraption that cashes ’em in for damage boosts and other upgrades. May your cup runneth over!

What we love: Mastering the perfect pour. Dropping your cupful of balls through just the right sequence of multiplier gates—enough to turn them into hundreds of buff-buying white orbs—is almost as exciting as slaying a big boss.

Fight, pour, upgrade—then fight some more!

Quick tip: Always choose the “Start With +6 Balls” and “+1 Balls Dropped From Enemy” skills whenever they pop up between battles. These can earn you thousands of additional balls over the course of a run.

Meet the creator: Ostap Hrytsyshyn and Oles Terletsky founded Ukrainian indie developer 501 Games after getting their doctoral degrees in computer science; Cup Heroes pays tribute to the epic beer pong battles they had in college. The studio also made Canvas Run and Jump Dunk 3D.