Degrees of Separation

Degrees of Separation

Fair · Multiplayer · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
6.2h
Value
$3.22/hr
Reviews
80% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.2h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
9.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.22
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
80%
1,346 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
74
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics Card with support for DirectX 11, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.

Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.22/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length6.2 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 482 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2022. 64 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wuppo: Definitive Edition ($14.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Shift Happens ($15.99, scores 41).

Of the 482 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 205 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.

At 6.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

19% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

9 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I've just 100% this game solo and can definelty say its a great puzzle game. Going for all the scarves certaintly caters to people who enjoy a good challenge. I really enjoyed the twists each level gave on the already great core mechanic. When playing solo I was worried that there was going to be puzzles that involve careful timing that would be trivial with 2 players but unreasonably hard with 1. I can say with...
ahllyksRecommendedafter 15hAug 2026Read on Steam
This is a cool little game. I enjoy the slow pace of it. Yes you can play co op but you can play it by yourself as I can prove that. The graphics are crisp and the colors are amazing to me. Recommended
ShotgunbillRecommendedafter 4.5hAug 2026Read on Steam
Caveat: this is a DNF for me. So the game is hecking beautiful; the graphics are crisp and the color schemes are clear. The responsiveness of the switching of the barrier was amazing programming. The narration was a bit much and could have used an editor, but the voiceover lady was trying her best. I gave up, though, because I was playing it solo instead of a co-op. I figured this would be like Pode, where it really...
BlessedAreTheFandomsRecommendedafter 5.8hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Degrees of Separation scores 51/100 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/809880/degrees-of-separation
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+6
Critics
74
Players
80
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,346 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMoondrop
PublisherMaximum Entertainment
GenreMultiplayer
Released2019
Achievements10