Shift Happens
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$15.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$1.5990% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.25/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 4,398
- Genre rank
- Top 25% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.1h
- To 100%
- 20.5h 2.9x the story
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 September 2021
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 12 now
- Cheaper than
- 12% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 73% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
35% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 84 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ibb & obb ($11.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Unravel Two ($19.99, scores 38).
More about Shift Happens
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 892 reviews written there were positive, against 77 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
this game was full of bugs i finished it just to feel satisfied with the money i spent but unfortunly i hated me life even ,ore
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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...
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!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Mobility Radeon HD 5650, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shift Happens scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/359840/shift-happensReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.