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2013 · Puzzle · Sci-fi · Space

How long isThe Swapper?

by Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo Castellano

6 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 3.5 hours and 8.5 hours

The Swapper cover

The Swapper among the 218 puzzle platformers here

The whole tier list
BPlayed tier

#118

of 218

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

39%
got past 2 hours
about the kind's 40%
1%
past 20 hours
−3 on the kind's 3%
67%
launched it
+8 on the kind's 59%
149
libraries own it
1 in 17 of the 2,477 read here
The Swapper ↓
#1 Portal 2#218
33% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Exceptionally loved: 97% recommend it past the refund window, better reviewed than 206 of 236 puzzle platformers here.

Does The Swapper hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 20 hours played.

Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.

Do the first two hours of The Swapper tell you?

In the first two hours77%recommend it

After that97%recommend it

6 in 100 said no: 3 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 6 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3.5 hours and 8.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 7,600 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 95% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

15% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 77% of those recommend it. After the window, 97% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 43% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1.5 hours in.

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When would you get there?

6days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 6 hours on Friday, November 20.

Half of its reviewers had played between 3.5 and 8.5 hours: Nov 18 to Nov 23 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Is The Swapper worth it?

Is The Swapper worth it? Mostly.

  • Fair price

    About what a typical puzzle platformer charges: $2.50 an hour

  • Loved

    97% recommend it after the refund windowmost puzzle platformers: 90%

  • Usually played

    67% of owners here have played itmost puzzle platformers: 61%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 6 hours come to $2.50 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 97% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of The Swapper costs about what the typical one of 236 puzzle platformers here charges $2.86.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (puzzle platformers) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play The Swapper today?

On Xbox One, PS4 and PC

Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.

  1. PS32014
  2. Wii U2014
  3. PS Vita2014
  4. todayPS42014
  5. todayPC2014
  6. todayXbox One2015
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Swapper came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like The Swapper?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Swapper, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Swapper would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

@tutel holds this page

  1. 1st@tutel3.1 h
  2. 2nd@eltorga2.1 h
  3. 3rd@radu1071.5 h
  4. 4th@mor4ee1.1 h
  5. 5th@foxworks55 min
  6. 6th@catch27 min
  7. 7th@darthvader719 min
  8. 8th@ravage19 min

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with The Swapper?

  • 1 in 3,630

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

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  2. 2

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  3. 3

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  4. 4

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  5. 5

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  6. 6

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    The Swapper, but linear

    Loved · 94%Games like Thomas Was Alone

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How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from The Swapper: a kind of game it is that The Swapper is not, a feature its tags carry that The Swapper's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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