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The Swindle

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The Swindle
The Swindle cover
Developers
Size Five Games
Engines
Unity 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows July 28, 2015
macOS (OS X) July 28, 2015
Linux Early access
Reception
Metacritic 70
OpenCritic 70
IGDB 73
The Swindle on HowLongToBeat
The Swindle on IGDB
The Swindle on MobyGames
The Swindle on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/Size Five Games/The Swindle/SwindleSystemData.txt
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Size Five Games/The Swindle/
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/369110/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/Size Five Games/The Swindle/SwindleData.txt
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/369110/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Never letter-boxed or pillar-boxed.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Animations of main character may appear more choppy at higher than 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Keyboard remapping.
Keyboard remapping.
Controller remapping.
Controller remapping.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Global and music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: The Swindle.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 4.6.3f1[1][2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/369110/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (369110) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References