GAME
The Swapper
Cloning, consciousness, and a lonely space station
Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo Castellano · 2013-05-30 · ■■■□□ 3/5 · 8.4/10
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The Swapper is a puzzle / puzzle-platformer puzzle game released by Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo Castellano in 2013.
Puzzlebyrinth scores it 8.4/10, with a difficulty of 3/5. Cloning, consciousness, and a lonely space station
Its core mechanics are Contraptions / Puzzle Platformer.
Our Review
A 2D puzzle-platformer where a gun lets you spawn up to four clones and swap your consciousness between them as you descend the derelict space station Theseus. Red and blue lights bar cloning and swapping in a tight grammar while a lonely clay-modeled world quietly asks what the self is — from Facepalm Games.
Mentions across our columns (7)
Puzzle Soundtracks（3）
- 2026-07-22 · DoremiSoundtrack: Gunpoint — silence by default, and the circuitry sings only while you plan
- 2026-07-18 · Doremi · 2 mentionsSoundtrack: Etherborn — gravity changes direction, but the music never falls over
- 2026-06-21 · Doremi · 12 mentionsSoundtrack: The Swapper — a cosmos built from a freezer and an old tape
