Games like The Swindle
If The Swindle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Contract Work, ENERGY SURVIVORS and Invisible, Inc. — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and punishing. 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 →About The Swindle: 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.
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Contract Work
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Swindle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Contract Work is a cyberpunk action rogue-like where you infiltrate high-rises to steal corporate secrets. Do you go in guns blazing or take a more stealthy approach? Every contract earns you credits which you use to buy new cybernetic enhancements and modifications for your next mission.
ENERGY SURVIVORS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Swindle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
In Energy Survivors, you play as a mercenary in a third-person shooter roguelite game. Your mission is to invade a hostile planet in search of its energy source. You can choose from a variety of upgrades to create unique and powerful builds that can change the course of the game.
Invisible, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swindle.
Third-strongest match for The Swindle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Beast Agenda 2030
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Swindle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Inspired by Escape From New York, Shadowrun SNES and Genesis, Deus Ex and H.P. Lovecraft, Beast Agenda 2030 is a Stealth, Gadgets and Hacking focused Action RPG with optional permadeath that encourages you to use your brain to complete missions in procedurally generated city districts.
Thief
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swindle.
Ranked #5 for The Swindle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Swindle.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swindle.
Ranked #6 for The Swindle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
The Masterplan
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Swindle.
Ranked #7 for The Swindle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Tactical squad-based heist game set in 1970s. The 2D top-down view gives you a great overview of what's happening at any given moment, allowing you to be a real criminal mastermind. Can you pull off the greatest heist in the history of mankind?
Eldritch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swindle.
Ranked #8 for The Swindle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swindle.
Reviewers of The Swindle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
Spelunky
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with The Swindle.
Reviewers of The Swindle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
Dishonored
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swindle.
Reviewers of The Swindle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Swindle.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Swindle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Swindle at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Swindle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
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
Shares a challenging mood with The Swindle.
Priced ~67% under The Swindle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
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 Swindle on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Swindle.
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 Swindle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
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 Swindle on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Swindle.
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 Swindle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
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 Swindle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
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 Swindle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Swindle.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Swindle.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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More from Size Five Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Size Five Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Lair of the Clockwork God
WHY THIS
Another title from Size Five Games, the studio behind The Swindle. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one! Join adventurer Ben and wannabe indie darling Dan in a race against time to stop all the Apocalypses happening at the same time.
Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Swindle.
Another title from Size Five Games, the studio behind The Swindle. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!
Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack
WHY THIS
Another title from Size Five Games, the studio behind The Swindle. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!
Behold the Kickmen
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Swindle.
Another title from Size Five Games, the studio behind The Swindle. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
BEHOLD THE KICKMEN is a football game made by someone who has no understanding of, or interest in, what is affectionately known as "The Wonderful Game". Start at the bottom of the Big Boring Football Spreadsheet and grind your way up to become the best at the football anyone's ever seen.
Earth Must Die
WHY THIS
Another title from Size Five Games, the studio behind The Swindle. Shares RPG with The Swindle.
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.
Devil's Kiss
WHY THIS
Another title from Size Five Games, the studio behind The Swindle. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Find out how it all started in this enticing Visual Novel prequel for "Lair of the Clockwork God". Join heroes Dan and Ben as they navigate a rough first school day stuffed with flirting, demons, a vast conspiracy and all manner of compromising personal information.
Frequently asked about The Swindle
- Is The Swindle verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Swindle 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 Swindle cost?
- The Swindle is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Swindle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Swindle are Contract Work, ENERGY SURVIVORS, Invisible, Inc..
- Who developed The Swindle?
- The Swindle was developed by Size Five Games.
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