The Swapper
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.2485% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.94/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 7,596
- Critics
- 87 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.1h
- To 100%
- 5.9h 1.2x the story
- Achievements
- 10
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 December 2017
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
11% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
79 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.42, a level the record has reached 73 times.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Seen ($0.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats OneShift ($4.99, scores 42).
More about The Swapper
This site sampled 437 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 725 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.24 (85% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 19 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Excellent game. Owned it for years, never gave it a review. They even updated it last year. Awesome devs.
2 more reviews
Sometimes a little too confusing for its own good, yet the artstyle, concept, and emotional impact are truly great. I had a good time, asked for help from my friends on a couple of the puzzles.
Good puzzle platformer. You create up to 4 clones of yourself that also do the same inputs as you, and you can swap to control them if you have line of sight. Killing a clone (using fall damage or touching them) recovers them. There are also lights that block creation of clones and swapping ability, and buttons that turn these lights off while pressed. The difficulty comes from the fact that your clones move...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Swapper scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/231160/the-swapperReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.