The Swapper

Ngeri banget puzzle nya , lumayann latih logika

wow, this was an incredible experience, the first 0g moment was incredible. the visuals and sound design are excellent, and the puzzles are very fun and engaging. there was one moment towards the middle of the game where spoken dialogue comes in right after reading a bit of unspoken written dialogue, and as both can be very thought-provoking it was difficult to focus on both of them at the same time and I ended up dying to hear the spoken dialogue again; this is probably my only criticism with the game design. the soundtrack is a bit minimal with the piano but it works well enough, and there are still some interesting adaptive music moments in the game that I enjoyed. the music serves the deeply thoughtful and frightening nature of the story quite well and I felt I got the kind of immersion that a brilliant short novel will give. unfortunately, the current release of this game has a few egregious technical issues that can sour the experience. as these can be circumvented I'd like to give an opportunity to recommend this game with a quick guide on how to get around these issues until they're fixed, as I still feel it was worth playing despite having to browse the discussion pages to fix them. 1. When you first boot up the game, if using mouse and keyboard you may find it difficult or impossible to move the cursor. If this occurs, exit the game and go to the steam library. Right click the game in the library and click "Properties", then go to the "Beta" tab and change to the "compatability-compatability" beta. Relaunch the game and the mouse issue should be fixed. This issue may not be present if using a gamepad. 2. When encountering certain secrets in this game, your game may suddenly freeze. This crash is somehow related to the steam achievements; you'll notice when this happens that you'll receive an achievement but you won't be able to see the contents of the secret due to the freeze. If this occurs, you should be able to fix this by running the game outside of steam. First, you need to Exit Steam (the menu at the top left), or end the process through task manager. Then, locate the game files, which should be in C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/The Swapper. In there should be a file named steam_api.dll, which you want to rename to steam_api.dll.bak (make sure file extensions are visible in Windows Explorer or your equivelant program; you can find this in the View tab). Finally, in the same folder run The Swapper.exe and the game should run. You will be able to play the game without experiencing crashes. All in all, an incredible experience and well worth playing. Unfortunately because of the technical issues, I will have to recommend purchasing it when it is on sale, however once I found the workarounds for the issues they didn't hinder my experience very much. One note about the game's ending; [spoiler] maybe it is a flaw that you have to replay the whole game to see the other ending, however I can see the reasoning behind it and even see that it may be a deliberate choice. firstly, the secrets can be hidden pretty well especially the last one, and so for most people a repeated playthrough would still provide value. As the puzzles are required to beat the game, the puzzle gameplay will be easily finished and you can replay this game in an hour or less to beat it after doing so once; since a lot of it is just understanding the mechanics the earlier ones especially feel quite intuitive on a repeated playthrough, and as there are exploration elements to the game I think that this decision is not itself an objective flaw. I also think that this adds more weight to the decision, though admittedly this should have been communicated better (like in Oneshot for example). I would only say that the way it is done is a bit sloppy, with how the credits scroll and then you can still continue the file that jumps you to the credits; a better way would be to simply delete the file after completing the game as it comes across as a technical issue in this case. [/spoiler]