7.2 /10 1 Votes
7.5/10 Destructoid Initial release date 28 July 2015 | 7/10 Steam 73% Metacritic Genres Action game, Stealth game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Developers Size Five Games, Curve Digital Platforms PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Wii U, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh operating systems Publishers Size Five Games, Curve Digital Similar Curve Digital games, Stealth games, Other games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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Synopsis
Set in a steampunk variation of London, The Swindle follows a group of thieves who're attempting to hijack an AI being developed by Scotland Yard. If the AI is completed, the thieves exploits will be at an end.
Gameplay
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.
Development and release
The Swindle was developed by Size Five Games. The game was released for Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita on 28 July 2015, for Xbox One on 31 July 2015, and for Wii U on 10 September 2015.
