The Swindle is an adventure developed by Size Five Games, released 28 July 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Wii U.
What The Swindle is
The Swindle is an adventure game developed by Size Five Games and released in 2015. It was published by Curve Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Swindle is a steampunk cybercrime caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing all their cash, and quickly running away again before the police show up.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Swindle holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4Ghz, 4 GB RAM and GeForce 8800 equivalent or higher. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
The Swindle launched on 28 July 2015, within three weeks of God of War III Remastered, N++ (NPLUSPLUS), Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and God of War III: Remastered. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: God of War III Remastered, N++ (NPLUSPLUS), Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, God of War III: Remastered.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
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