Phrase Shift
Short description
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!
- Developer
- Hyper Hippo Games
- Publisher
- Hyper Hippo Games
- Release
- Wed, Nov 30, 2016
- Price
- $2.99
- Reviews
- 49
- Positive
- 88%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Casual
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $2.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
Tracking started Aug 9, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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