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Parallel Shift cover art

Parallel Shift

Insightful Games · 2021-02-15

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Feb 15, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

How far would you go to learn the truth? What is the limit of our existence? Switch between dimensions, close the matching breaches and rewind time to escape the unknown in this beautiful Pixel Art Platformer Runner.

Parallel Shift is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2021, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Positive review sentiment (92% of 25 reviews).

0
playing now
92%
positive of 25 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 69% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2021-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820212026Week of 2021-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.492021-02-152022-12-052021-02-15 — best price $2.392021-02-22 — best price $3.992021-03-15 — best price $0.992021-04-05 — best price $0.692021-04-12 — best price $0.992021-04-26 — best price $0.692021-05-03 — best price $0.992021-06-14 — best price $0.792021-06-21 — best price $0.992021-06-25 — best price $0.492021-07-08 — best price $0.992021-10-28 — best price $0.742021-11-01 — best price $0.992021-11-24 — best price $0.742021-12-01 — best price $0.992021-12-22 — best price $0.742022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-01-27 — best price $0.792022-02-03 — best price $0.992022-12-05 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
82.6%
earned "Adrift"
59.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DDarkRetroCasualPuzzleRunnerSci-fiFuturisticPlatformerTime Travel

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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