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Shift'n Slay cover art

Shift'n Slay

DREBOT game studio · 2025-02-27

Steam

RPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 27, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Shift’n Slay is an amped-up turn-based tactical roguelike, where you fight your way through a cyberpunk hell step by step, trying to break a time loop engineered by corporate bastards.

81%
positive of 99 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (62 reviews).
  • · Top 47% of 14,489 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 99 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.19 at Steam (2026-10-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
585820252026Week of 2025-02-27: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-02-27: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-24: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-27: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$4.192025-02-272026-10-082025-02-27 — best price $9.592025-03-13 — best price $11.992025-04-21 — best price $6.592025-05-05 — best price $11.992025-06-27 — best price $8.032025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-08-07 — best price $5.992025-08-21 — best price $11.992025-09-29 — best price $5.992025-10-06 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $4.792026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-02-27 — best price $5.992026-03-02 — best price $11.992026-03-19 — best price $4.792026-03-26 — best price $11.992026-06-25 — best price $4.792026-07-09 — best price $11.992026-08-03 — best price $4.792026-08-10 — best price $11.992026-10-01 — best price $4.192026-10-08 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Polish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-02-27 (Steam store data)

Player tags

PvERPGDarkViolentStrategyTacticalCyberpunkDifficultIsometricRogue-lite

Census log

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

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