

Shift
Black Lime Studio · 2016 · Indie, Strategy, Puzzle, Anime, Singleplayer
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 318
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About Shift
✦ AI summary
Connect figures into increasingly long chains using yellow shifters to redirect your path and rack up points across randomly generated and ranked levels. Challenge yourself across four grid sizes with shifting mechanics, locked elements, and bonus connectors to master the puzzle-solving in this beautifully scored experience.
It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.
- Different modes (Ranking levels, Randomly generated levels)
- Different elements (Blank, Connectors, Shifters, Locked Shifters, Bonus connectors)
- Different difficulty levels (Grids: 7x7, 9x9, 11x11, 13x13)
- Great soundtrack
- Different modes (Ranking levels, Randomly generated levels)
- Different elements (Blank, Connectors, Shifters, Locked Shifters, Bonus connectors)
- Different difficulty levels (Grids: 7x7, 9x9, 11x11, 13x13)
- Great soundtrack
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1] Puzzle game where you try to connect as much pieces as possible. You rotate single tiles to make the line shooting from the starting point to take preferably the longest path. Each level requires certain amount of points to proceed to next one. No fast forward button makes game a bit slow. Voices are great, gameplay is not. [/h1]13 found this helpful
Beat it at the office. Boss thought I was shifting spreadsheets. I was shifting realities. Now requesting promotion for saving the multiverse. Will accept pizza and immortality as bonus.1 found this helpful
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A pretty good puzzle game.1 found this helpful
Shift is a minimalist puzzle game that focuses almost entirely on spatial reasoning and forward planning, offering an experience that is simple to understand but gradually reveals surprising depth. Developed and published by Black Lime Studio, the game does not rely on story, characters, or elaborate presentation to engage the player. Instead, it builds its appeal around a clean rule set and a steady escalation of complexity, making it a quiet but absorbing title for players who enjoy thoughtful, logic-driven challenges. At its core, Shift revolves around the idea of drawing a continuous line across a grid by connecting as many points as possible without trapping yourself. The main mechanic involves directional elements that alter the path of your line, forcing you to think several moves ahead before committing to a decision. Early levels ease players into the concept with smaller grids and limited obstacles, but as the game progresses, the board expands and introduces new elements that complicate the process. Locked connectors, bonus nodes, and larger playfields require more deliberate planning, turning what initially feels like a casual puzzle into a careful exercise in anticipa…
Relaxing game. Achievements, cards, cheap.
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