Shift Happens
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $15.99.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $2.25/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Mobility Radeon HD 5650, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Shift Happens is a cooperative platformer for two. You and a friend shift your mass, throw each other and puzzle your way through four stages of stylized imaginary worlds. Including the occasional backstabbing and taunting. Play with a friend on a couch, online or even special singleplayer levels.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in September 2021. It has been discounted 82 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. ibb & obb ($11.99, scores 73) outscores it, and so does BattleBlock Theater® ($14.99, scores 100). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 793 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 887 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.1 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 2.9 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
35% start to <1% 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
16 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game has game-breaking bugs. Bridges sometimes fall in the opposite direction and most of the time only for one player. There is also a bug that somehow makes your character the same as your partner. Both of these usually make the level impossible and require a restart. The game uses a heart system that is ok in theory but when you lose them due to the issues mentioned they cannot be recovered. When the game is...
Bruh fix a lot of bug in your games "PLEASE" i stuck in 1-9. My girlfriend she so enjoy with this please give me a patch.
An absolute must-play if you have a co-op partner to mess around with-the puzzle mechanics are built for chaotic duo energy. You can actually play it solo too, which totally changes the vibe into a much harder, brain-melting multitasking challenge. Definitely grab a friend for the laughs, but brave the single-player mode if you really want to test your sanity!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Shift Happens scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/359840/shift-happensThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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