Transference™
Skip · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 1.5h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $16.66/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 512 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
Imagine an escape room set in a deranged mind. Experience a first-person exploration game in a chilling new dimension. Shift between three perspectives of a family and unravel the mystery hiding in this mind-bending psychological thriller.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
61 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 78 percent. Silver Chains ($24.99, scores 16) outscores it, and so does God's Basement ($14.99, scores 28). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Transference™
5 of the 297 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 198 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
68% 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
What players say
Three perspectives on a single story No matter how a situation turns out, every participant will have their own view of the order of things. The game serves as a reminder of how important it is to learn to put oneself in other people's shoes and try looking at the world from different angles. The gameplay and visuals do not exist separately from the plot; they work in tandem, almost physically conveying the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Transference™ scores 15/100 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/647570/transferenceReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.