The Shivah
Fair · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.8h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.77/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 901 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.49 (70% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each 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
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About the game
Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 256-colour: 266 Mhz or above, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
52 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 71 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Loco Motive ($17.99, scores 72) and The Blackwell Legacy ($4.99, scores 74) both outscore it.
More about The Shivah
This site sampled 243 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 195 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
41% start to 11% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I wuz up shmutzin my shnitzel till Rabbi Stone came over and says, he says to me, ay be a good mensch n lemme take a little off the top. I says AYO! Oy Gevalt! and other such expletives. I says, now I'm no shmuck but i figures I need less length like I need a hole in the head. Rabbi comes to me, he says he needs it for his bar, he's got this restaurant bar, been deep frying em and calling em calamari. I says again I...
2 more reviews
1. Rabbi Stone's Psyche: The Crisis of Faith as a Reflection of the Human Mind The core of The Shivah isn't the police mystery, but rather the mental state of Russell Stone. At the start of the game, Stone's synagogue is empty, his bank account is overdrawn, and his faith in the Creator seems to have vanished. From a psychological perspective, Stone suffers from what existentialist literature and cognitive...
Do you have the chutzpah to uncover the mystery of Jack Lauder's death? If so, this game is intended for you a real mensch.
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Cite this score
The Shivah scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252370/the-shivahReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.