LIMINAL SHIFT
Skip · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$9.99Skip
On its price record
$8.68Fair
- Length
- 2.5h 4.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 300 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.68 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $5.99 (40% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 44 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, RX 580/GTX 1060, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 20 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, HOME (free, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Uncanny Tales: Cold Road ($2.99, scores 34).
More about LIMINAL SHIFT
1 of the 254 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
91% start to 24% 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
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 17:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game was immersive and an enjoyable experience, the sound cues definitely helped in making the atmosphere dreadful and eerie. That being said, the lack of brightness options or a flashlight really limited which spaces I would've otherwise explored, yes I know the levels are already huge enough but come on. Another thing, Since I'm on Linux there were a few instances where the game froze the crashed, that's...
2 more reviews
This game is alright. But I can tell that a lot of the ideas in this game are very similar to other "liminal" games Like POOLS and Liminalcore. That's fine and I'm glad the game is it's own story and locations. Highly recommend for people who like Liminal Walking Sims.
LIMINAL SHIFT I missed this one, released last year! So... yep, another liminal game except this one, it is MOSTLY all very well designed but there were times that I was going in circles though and could had surely shed a good hour of my playtime! The visuals and sound design are truly the highlights of this game, making it such an eerie exploration while moving to your next "objective". POSITIVES: +Outstanding...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
LIMINAL SHIFT scores 48/100 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/3282700/liminal-shiftReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.