Shephy

Shephy

Skip · Short indie · 2017

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 34, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
1.7h 19.5h to 100%
Value
$2.94/hr
Reviews
74% of 211 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 26 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

Raising the score
Engagement8% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.94/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 73% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 121 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

1000 adorable sheep!The popular single-player card game Shephy, is now available on Steam.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT (VRAM 256MB) or AMD Radeon HD 8470D, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 53 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 41 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Faerie Solitaire ($14.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Doodle God ($14.99, scores 33).

More about Shephy

Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

1.7 hours to finish it, 20 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 11 times the campaign.

The drop-off

76% start to 8% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 1.1hFeb 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Shephy scores 34/100 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/651340/shephy
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Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperArc System Works
PublisherArc System Works
GenreShort indie
Released2017
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29