2025-05-31 11:00 UTC · PC Gamer · Rick Lane
Have you played The Swapper? If not, you should swap whatever you're doing right now for playing The Swapper. Originally released back in 2013, it's a sci-fi puzzler that hinges on your ability to create clones of yourself, which then mimic your every movement. From this simple concept, The Swapper produces some delightfully brain-tangling puzzles, and a story that probes the question of personal identity with discomforting acuity. Oh, and it's all wrapped in eerie, Claymation-based art that still looks beautiful today... Read more.
2025-05-28 13:40 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
>> Survey expedition reporting again. The maintenance update is now available for all players. The original purpose of this release was addressing bit rot that had accumulated over the years, but we couldn't resist including some visual, aural and input adjustments that make the game feel a little bit smoother. The visual improvements can be toggled on/off in the options menu under Bump map anti-aliasing, Enhanced edges, Vignette and Dithering. While these changes are subtle enough that they could go unnoticed if you're not looking for them, we've created a Legacy branch for those of you who w
2025-05-26 18:14 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
>> Survey expedition reporting again. Engineering continues deploying corrective patches. Please note that these changes appear only in the beta2025 branch. This update focuses on removing some rough edges (pun intended) in rendering. We've also tested the game on Steam Deck and hope it will be reviewed for official compatibility soon. *** CHANGELOG *** - Gfx - Added Dithering (removes banding in gradients, overlays and light effects) - Gfx - Added Enhanced edges (makes edges more stable when Depth of Field is on) - Gfx - Updated textures to reduce edge flickering - Gfx - Minor changes to rend
2025-04-02 15:02 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
>> Survey expedition reporting again. Engineering continues deploying corrective patches. Please note that these changes appear only in the beta2025 branch. *** CHANGELOG *** - Audio - more natural sound panning - Audio - made text log character appear blip slightly louder - FIX - Audio - player-centric sounds, like footsteps were sometimes panned to the side - FIX - Audio - text log character appear blip didn't always play - FIX - Input - cursor stutter due to a thread synchronization issue in cursor latency minimization code *** PREVIOUS CHANGES (21 MARCH 2025) *** - HiDPI visual matrix (dis
2025-03-21 17:54 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
>> Survey expedition reporting. Analysis of cumulative bit degradation over elapsed cycles has yielded actionable intel. Engineering has begun deploying corrective patches addressing critical system instabilities. *** CHANGELOG *** - HiDPI visual matrix (display system) compatibility - More future-proof windowing implementation - Updated Steamworks SDK artefact and Big Picture keyboard overlay - Added an option for Bump map anti-aliasing (improves stability of specular highlights) - FIX - Input anomaly - cursor immobilization (cursor cannot be moved) - FIX - Hidden terminal access causing cata
2019-08-30 12:34 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
Some of you have been wondering if there's ever going to be another game from the developers of The Swapper. A new game, Noita, by bunch of friends and me (Olli), is launching in Early Access in less than a month: https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/ Noita has been a a ton of fun to work on. The game's pixel based physics and chemistry simulations still provide fresh gameplay after over six years of development. Without further ado, here's the early access launch date trailer for Noita: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smkdscv6SJs https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/publi
2019-08-09 06:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Matt Cox)
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. When you play the game of clones, you win or you die. Or both. The Swapper is a 2D platformer that asks metaphysical questions about the intersection between consciousness, survival, and identity. I like it quite a lot. (more…)
2019-05-02 17:10 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 85% on The Swapper!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
2014-02-26 07:15 UTC · Shacknews · Alice O'Connor
As befits a game about cloning yourself, The Swapper is multiplying onto PlayStation 4, PS3, and Vita. Facepalm Games' sci-fi puzzle-platformer is fizzing away in Sony test tubes at Curve Studios, the folks behind PlayStation ports of PC games from Proteus to Thomas Was Alone.
2014-02-19 11:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Nathan Grayson)
Another Humble Indie Bundle? What a strange turn of events. I thought for sure that Humble was going to suddenly and inexplicably shut down their massively successful enterprise this time around. I mean, they’re on Humble Indie Bundle 11 now. What a gross number. Ten – nay, X – was so svelte, so confident. It plucked the olive from life’s martini glass just so, and we all just wanted its gaze to fall on us for a single precious second. So seriously, what’s even the point of having more Humble Bundles? Oh, right: amazing games and charity and stuff. This time aroun
2014-02-18 20:24 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
We've just released an update that we decided to call v1.16. It adds and contains, amongst other boring techy things: Linux support! OSX support! SDL2 as platform abstraction library instead of OpenTK, fixes multiple compatibility issues GPU-scaled fullscreen mode, the game never changes screen resolution anymore Updated FMOD audio library to version 4.44.30, fixes audio related crashes The game doesn't use XML serializers anymore, fixes an extremely rare crash issue Improved debug logging Made gamepad support more robust Got rid of GLU requirement Multiple minor compatibility fixes Linux and
2014-02-18 20:24 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
We've just released an update that we decided to call v1.16. It adds and contains, amongst other boring techy things: Linux support! OSX support! SDL2 as platform abstraction library instead of OpenTK, fixes multiple compatibility issues GPU-scaled fullscreen mode, the game never changes screen resolution anymore Updated FMOD audio library to version 4.44.30, fixes audio related crashes The game doesn't use XML serializers anymore, fixes an extremely rare crash issue Improved debug logging Made gamepad support more robust Got rid of GLU requirement Multiple minor compatibility fixes Linux and
2014-02-18 13:15 UTC · Shacknews · Ozzie Mejia
Humble Bundle is stepping into the ring with a new batch of indie games. The Humble Indie Bundle 11 includes up to six games, depending on how much you choose to play, including Drinkbox Games' lucha libre Metrovania beat-'em-up, Guacamelee! Gold Edition, the Escher-esque first-person puzzler Antichamber, and the manic heist game Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine. And of course, you can choose how much of your money goes to developers or the Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation charities.
2014-01-11 20:43 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
Now you can explore the dark mysteries of Theseus from the comfort of your sofa! As the title says this update adds native gamepad support to The Swapper. We've put a big effort into making playing with gamepad feel natural by adding snapping support to the map and reworking all menu controls. The game also supports rumble on some controllers. The update should be automatically downloaded by Steam. If that doesn't happen a Steam client restart should fix the problem.
2014-01-11 20:43 UTC · Community Announcements · facepalmg
Now you can explore the dark mysteries of Theseus from the comfort of your sofa! As the title says this update adds native gamepad support to The Swapper. We've put a big effort into making playing with gamepad feel natural by adding snapping support to the map and reworking all menu controls. The game also supports rumble on some controllers. The update should be automatically downloaded by Steam. If that doesn't happen a Steam client restart should fix the problem.
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