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Phrase Shift

Hyper Hippo Games · 2016-11-30

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 30, 2016 (Mac), Nov 30, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Phrase Shift is a completely original word puzzle. with 600 puzzles in multiple categories. You’re given a definition, and you shift each of its words left and right until the correct answer reads down. It’s like solving a crossword clue, but the answer is within the clue itself!

89%
positive of 62 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 25,538 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 62 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.19 at Steam (2025-03-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620162026Week of 2016-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualPuzzleTriviaWord Game

Census log

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