SCHiM
Skip · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $16.45.
- Length
- 3.6h 6.2h to 100%
- Value
- $4.57/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 332 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
SCHiM is a game about jumping from shadow to shadow in a relaxing and lively environment. This 3D platformer takes elements of light, shadow & animation and adds them directly to the gameplay, delivering an experience that you will only find in SCHiM.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 650 (1024 MB Ram), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 16 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Snake Pass ($3.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Kiki ($0.99, scores 0).
More about SCHiM
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 228 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
75% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 00:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game was a delight. It is simple and at some points I was sort of bored, but I did enjoy my time playing this game. The simplicity of the art mixed with the simple calming music really brought this game into the cozy gamer world. I did enjoy this game and would play it again!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is exactly what a cozy puzzler should be. Lovely art style, interesting mechanics. Long enough to come back to several times. Nice main plot, told wordlessly in the background, in a way that gave you a goal, but didn't get in the way of the main gameplay if you didn't care for it.
Way too long for a frustrating gameplay and lack of smart checkpoints The jumps are too random without a visual hint on the direction. You can't play without the extra jump and the checkpoints and those are completely randomly located. Sometimes you have 6 consecutive checkpoints and sometime you need to perform a complex trick with a checkpoint a few shadow behind that trick... In the end the gameplay is the same...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SCHiM scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1519710/schimReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.