Games like The Swapper
If The Swapper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Smelted Kin, Carestia and Outpost Delta — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its puzzles are well designed, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Swapper is a puzzle-platformer released in 2013 by Facepalm Games, set in deep space and priced at $14.99 USD. The game centers on clone-creation mechanics and environmental interaction as players solve puzzles while navigating a philosophical sci-fi narrative. Players describe the atmosphere as atmospheric and contemplative, with philosophical themes that reviewers highlight as thought-provoking. The puzzle design has been described as well-designed by players. The game holds a 94% positive rating from 3406 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck. It is a challenging solo experience of medium length with an immersive quality that reviewers note.
About The Swapper: 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.
Players who liked The Swapper also play
Steam players who put hours into The Swapper also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Smelted Kin
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Swapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Science fiction 2D shooter with platformer and metroidvania elements. Players will have to explore a huge research complex consisting of nonlinear levels, which is crowded with robots
Outpost Delta
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Swapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.
NBB.EXE
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interaction, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Ranked #4 for The Swapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
NBB.EXE is a challenging fast paced puzzle platformer. Bomb your way to victory through devious gauntlets to reveal the secrets of the mysterious NEON Corp. in a modern reimagining of Bomberman with a metroidvania twist.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Ranked #5 for The Swapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Ranked #6 for The Swapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
The Turing Test
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Ranked #7 for The Swapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Swapper.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Ranked #8 for The Swapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Swapper
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Stephen's Sausage Roll
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Reviewers of The Swapper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Reviewers of The Swapper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Ori and the Blind Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Reviewers of The Swapper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Swapper.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Swapper.
Reviewers of The Swapper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Swapper.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Witness
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Reviewers of The Swapper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
The Turing Test
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Reviewers of The Swapper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Swapper.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
Baba Is You
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Swapper.
Reviewers of The Swapper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Swapper.
Reviewers of The Swapper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Swapper at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Swapper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Swapper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Swapper on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Swapper.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Swapper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Swapper on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Swapper.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Swapper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Swapper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Swapper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Swapper.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Swapper.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Swapper.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Swapper.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Swapper.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about The Swapper
- Is The Swapper verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Swapper is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Swapper cost?
- The Swapper is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Swapper?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Swapper are Smelted Kin, Carestia, Outpost Delta.
- Who developed The Swapper?
- The Swapper was developed by Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo Castellano and published by Facepalm Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Swapper.
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