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Splice cover art

Splice

Cipher Prime Studios · 2012-06-13

SteamPlayStation Store

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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").

Splice is a Casual Indie game released in 2012, priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (87% of 590 reviews).

1
playing now
87%
positive of 590 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
3.94★
PlayStation Store rating (178 ratings)
1.9h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 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

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 29,044 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

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 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420152026Week of 2015-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 1 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

902026-06-01 — 0 pageviews2026-06-05 — 5 pageviews2026-06-09 — 3 pageviews2026-06-13 — 4 pageviews2026-06-17 — 2 pageviews2026-06-21 — 3 pageviews2026-06-25 — 5 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1 pageviews2026-07-03 — 7 pageviews2026-07-07 — 5 pageviews2026-07-11 — 0 pageviews2026-07-15 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 4 pageviews2026-07-27 — 2 pageviews2026-07-31 — 3 pageviews2026-08-04 — 4 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1 pageviews2026-08-12 — 2 pageviews2026-08-16 — 1 pageviews2026-08-20 — 1 pageviews2026-08-24 — 4 pageviews2026-08-28 — 3 pageviews2026-09-01 — 2 pageviews2026-09-05 — 5 pageviews2026-09-09 — 7 pageviews2026-09-13 — 4 pageviews2026-09-17 — 3 pageviews2026-09-21 — 1 pageviews2026-09-25 — 3 pageviews2026-09-29 — 5 pageviews2026-10-03 — 4 pageviews2026-10-07 — 7 pageviews2026-10-10 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
93.4%
earned "Baby Steps"
13.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2012-06-13, latest 2012-12-31 (Steam store data)

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.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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