Crossing Souls
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 9600 GT (256 MB) or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
California, 1986: A group of friends discover a mysterious pink stone that allows travel between two realms. This gang will live the summer of their lives in an adventure that will get them involved in a government conspiracy. Control five kids with special skills while fighting and solving puzzles.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in May 2022. It has been discounted 56 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. UFO 50 ($24.99, scores 82) outscores it, and so does Retro City Rampage™ DX ($14.99, scores 49). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Critics scored it 70. Players sit 9 points higher at 79 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 454 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 4% 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
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Crossing Souls is a 2D beat-em up style game that some people says heavily lean on the height of popularity of Stranger Things and I'd say that's fair though it tried something drastic for the story and introduced very depressing topics for a PEGI 12-rated game. I could even go so far as to say that the progression of the story was heading in the direction suitable for a mature audience and implications of certain...
The game starts great! It carries a lot of Stranger Things vibes and adds even more of that glorified American '80s attitude where every character is an over-the-top archetype. But pretty soon, the story tries to get mature and leave its Saturday-morning cartoon roots behind, and imo that's where it fails. There is way too much stuff crammed in for a cast that bland. A constructed twist here, a tearjerker there...
It feels like crossing souls was a passion project that was abbandoned relatively early on. It looks very nice and the opening is pretty intersting but everything else falls apart very quickly. For example, while there are multiple playable characters, some of them are way more fleshed out than others and usually you do not have all of them available, so gameplay is more limited than expected. There is also no...
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Cite this score
Crossing Souls scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/331690/crossing-soulsReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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