The Swindle (video game)

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The Swindle
Developer(s)Size Five Games
Publisher(s)Size Five Games
Platform(s)Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Wii U Nintendo Switch
ReleaseWindows, OS X, PS3, PS4, PSV
28 July 2015
Xbox One
31 July 2015
Wii U
10 September 2015
Genre(s)Action, stealth

The Swindle is a stealth action game developed by Size Five Games. The game was released for Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, and Wii U in 2015.

The game received generally positive reception, with critics praising the game's setting and tense gameplay.

Gameplay[edit]

The game takes place over 100 days. Each day a thief is sent on a heist to a part of London. The thief can search the region for money, avoiding or destroying a variety of guard robots patrolling the grounds. The thief can employ a variety of tools to destroy walls and other obstacles, hack computers for additional funds, or bug locations to turn them into income streams.

Other gameplay elements include perma-death, as a thief can die in a variety of ways, or become stuck and eliminated with a suicide pill to avoid capture, and the player assumes another thief on the following night.

Plot[edit]

Set in a steampunk variation of London, The Swindle follows a group of thieves who are attempting to hijack an AI being developed by Scotland Yard. If the AI is completed, the thieves' exploits will be at an end.

Reception[edit]

Jordan Erica Webber of PC Gamer rated the game 80/100, calling the game's interface "streamlined and readable" and the game itself "immensely satisfying".[7]

Zack Furniss of Destructoid rated the game 75/100, calling it "a festival of moments, of anecdotes filled with failures and smiles", but criticized the game for having potential bugs and exploits, as well as a "weird bloom effect" and "wonky" collision.[8]

James Cunningham of Hardcore Gamer rated the game 70/100, calling the controls "troubling" and a "work in progress", but saying it was "awfully close to being excellent" due to the variety of enemies, art style and large amount of tools at the player's disposal.[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Swindle for PC Reviews". Metacritic.
  2. ^ "The Swindle for PlayStation 4 Reviews". Metacritic.
  3. ^ "The Swindle for Wii U Reviews". Metacritic.
  4. ^ "The Swindle for PS Vita Reviews". Metacritic.
  5. ^ "The Swindle for Nintendo Switch Reviews". Metacritic.
  6. ^ "The Swindle Reviews". OpenCritic.
  7. ^ "The Swindle review". pcgamer. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  8. ^ "Review: The Swindle". Destructoid. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  9. ^ "Review: The Swindle | Hardcore Gamer". 12 August 2015. Retrieved 2017-08-11.