The Game Census
Splice cover art

Splice

Cipher Prime Studios · 2012-06-13

SteamPlayStation Store

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 20, 2015 (PlayStation 3), Jan 20, 2015 (PlayStation 4), Feb 14, 2013 (Linux), Jun 13, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 01, 2012 (Android), Jun 13, 2012 (Mac)

Splice is an experimental and artistic puzzler. Immerse yourself in its microbial world and start splicing! Every level ("strand") consists of a number of cells that you will need to rearrange into a target structure in several moves ("splices").

2
playing now
87%
positive of 590 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
1.9h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Splice is a 2012 puzzle game developed by Philadelphia-based independent game studio Cipher Prime. Splice was released in 2012, and is available for PC, Mac, Linux, iPad, and Android. Splice is no longer available for download on Android, Windows, Linux, iOS, iPadOS as well as the Mac App Store.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–47k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 590 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Humble Store (2015-05-20) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $3.992016-04-18 — best price $0.992016-06-07 — best price $0.992016-09-14 — best price $9.992016-12-20 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992019-09-29 — best price $9.992020-05-29 — best price $8.892020-06-13 — best price $8.892020-06-29 — best price $8.892020-07-14 — best price $8.892020-07-29 — best price $8.892020-08-13 — best price $8.892020-08-29 — best price $8.892020-09-13 — best price $8.892020-10-01 — best price $8.892020-10-16 — best price $8.892020-11-01 — best price $8.892020-11-16 — best price $8.892020-12-01 — best price $8.892020-12-16 — best price $8.892020-12-31 — best price $8.892021-01-15 — best price $8.892021-01-30 — best price $8.892021-02-14 — best price $8.892021-03-06 — best price $8.892021-03-21 — best price $8.892021-04-05 — best price $8.892021-04-20 — best price $8.892021-05-05 — best price $8.892021-05-20 — best price $8.892021-06-04 — best price $8.892021-10-11 — best price $8.892024-07-11 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-06-01 — 0 pageviews2026-06-04 — 3 pageviews2026-06-07 — 4 pageviews2026-06-10 — 0 pageviews2026-06-13 — 4 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1 pageviews2026-06-22 — 2 pageviews2026-06-25 — 5 pageviews2026-06-28 — 3 pageviews2026-07-01 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 5 pageviews2026-07-07 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 4 pageviews2026-07-13 — 6 pageviews2026-07-16 — 3 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 3 pageviews2026-07-31 — 3 pageviews2026-08-03 — 4 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 7 pageviews2026-08-12 — 2 pageviews2026-08-15 — 0 pageviews2026-08-18 — 3 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 4 pageviews2026-08-27 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,71212%16
PS4 (PlayStation)38736%14
PS3 (PlayStation)12073%14

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzleAbstractRelaxingSingleplayerTouch-FriendlyGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

Players also track

Unclaimed WorldENDLESS Legend™ZigguratThe Jackbox Party Pack 3Judgment: Apocalypse Survival SimulationFigmentUse Your WordsPikuniku

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗Wikipedia ↗