Shift
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $0.49.
- Length
- 1.2h 3.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 346 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
It is 51% off today.
Discounted in 5 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
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
It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB of VRAM and DX9 support. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 72 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 51 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.49 at 51 percent off still sits 75 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monument Valley ($7.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Pixel Puzzles Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles (free, scores 42).
More about Shift
Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.2 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
3% start to 2% 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
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 03:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
recommended pros - Casual and simple - stradegy - good price - achievements and trading cards - fun when you first play it cons - lack of playabilty - lack of tutorial
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Beat it at the office. Boss thought I was shifting spreadsheets. I was shifting realities. Now requesting promotion for saving the multiverse. Will accept pizza and immortality as bonus.
another puzzle game what will not change anything in your life if you not play it
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shift scores 49/100 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/485730/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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.