Liminalcore
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.59. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.6h 3h to 100%
- Value
- $3.49/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 760 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX-1070 or Equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 25 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today's $5.59 at 30 percent off still sits 17 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, POOLS ($9.79, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Dreamcore ($17.99, scores 53).
More about Liminalcore
This site sampled 422 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,627 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 59 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 237 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to 5% 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
What players say
For a game with no enemies I was still on edge from the environment. It has moments where sounds or unexpected forms (similar to the hand in the photos, I won't spoil anything more) make you question if you are truly alone. It even has a creepy ending chapter I never expected from a liminal spaces game that ties together the things that had been driving fear into me all along.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I do enjoy these short little surrealist backrooms types of games that don't have entities or enemies, you can enjoy the unsettling settings and soundscapes as a bit of playable art.
This game has a lot of interesting ideas for settings and a few parts look quite visually appealing, but it needs a few performance/gameplay optimizations (winding halways while walking, a few bigger ballpits and lighting), more explorable levels and especially focus. If this game wants to have a storyline in the subtext, then a lot more of the level design should reflect either the personality or experiences of the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Liminalcore scores 56/100 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/3107900/liminalcoreReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.