The Swindle
Skip · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 10.1h 51.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.48/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 634 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.24 (85% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 equivalent or higher, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
52 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. On the same math Streets of Rogue ($19.99, scores 90) and Thief Simulator ($19.99, scores 67) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about The Swindle
Inside the two-hour refund window, 29 percent of the 109 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 52, 5.1 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
33% start to 7% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
EXTREMELY GOOD so good in fact, I had pirated the game before. but i enjoyed it so much that i deleted my pirated copy and then bought the game to support the developers. lovely game 10/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Play addictive & highly enjoyable game as a master criminal who starts off with his own airship but with an inability to hack cash machines or run / jump properly
I want to love The Swindle. I really do. The aesthetic is fun, the levels are generated well, and the main conceit of having 100 days to get ready for the big "job" is exciting and interesting. All of these great things are marred by poor gameplay. Movement is imprecise and buggy, with the character sliding along sloped floors unable to jump. You have very little control over the height of your jump, making the...
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Cite this score
The Swindle scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/369110/the-swindleReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.