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| MC = PC: 70/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=pc |title=The Swindle for PC Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><br/>PS4: 73/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation-4 |title=The Swindle for PlayStation 4 Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><br/>WiiU: 72/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=wii-u |title=The Swindle for Wii U Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><br/>PSVITA: 74/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation-vita |title=The Swindle for PS Vita Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><br/>NS: 63/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=nintendo-switch |title=The Swindle for Nintendo Switch Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref> |
| MC = PC: 70/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=pc |title=The Swindle for PC Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><br/>PS4: 73/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation-4 |title=The Swindle for PlayStation 4 Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><br/>WiiU: 72/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=wii-u |title=The Swindle for Wii U Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><br/>PSVITA: 74/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation-vita |title=The Swindle for PS Vita Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><br/>NS: 63/100<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/the-swindle/critic-reviews/?platform=nintendo-switch |title=The Swindle for Nintendo Switch Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref> |
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| OC = 70/100<ref>{{cite web |title=The Swindle Reviews |url=https://opencritic.com/game/1499/the-swindle |publisher=[[OpenCritic]]}}</ref><br/>33% Critics Recommend |
| OC = 70/100<ref>{{cite web |title=The Swindle Reviews |date=4 August 2015 |url=https://opencritic.com/game/1499/the-swindle |publisher=[[OpenCritic]]}}</ref><br/>33% Critics Recommend |
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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 |
Release | Windows, 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]Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | PC: 70/100[1] PS4: 73/100[2] WiiU: 72/100[3] PSVITA: 74/100[4] NS: 63/100[5] |
OpenCritic | 70/100[6] 33% Critics Recommend |
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]- ^ "The Swindle for PC Reviews". Metacritic.
- ^ "The Swindle for PlayStation 4 Reviews". Metacritic.
- ^ "The Swindle for Wii U Reviews". Metacritic.
- ^ "The Swindle for PS Vita Reviews". Metacritic.
- ^ "The Swindle for Nintendo Switch Reviews". Metacritic.
- ^ "The Swindle Reviews". OpenCritic. 4 August 2015.
- ^ "The Swindle review". pcgamer. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ "Review: The Swindle". Destructoid. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ "Review: The Swindle | Hardcore Gamer". 12 August 2015. Retrieved 2017-08-11.