Mr. Shifty
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $3.66/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 650 GTX / AMD Radeon 7850 HD series card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Teleport, shift through bullets, and master lightning-fast takedowns in an all new kind of action game from tinyBuild and Team Shifty!
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
The value story
April 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 85 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vangers ($6.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Furi ($19.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 347 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, 76 percent of the 134 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
52% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Extremely fun. Graphics are good and combat feels good. What sets it apart from other topdown action games is that it also has some puzzle elements where you have to think fast and figure out how to get out of trouble on the fly.
As 51 year old gamer, I really struggle to find a game that just grabs me. This game did. It is just pure fun, without tedium or difficult to master mechanics (not that those are bad things). If you just want to chill, and experience a highly enjoyable gameplay loop, this is it. My highest praise for this gem.
Fun! Zipping around like Nightcrawler is a power fantasy worth a go. Good design and humor, and it leaves you wanting more.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Mr. Shifty scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/489140/mr-shiftyReviews 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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