About This Game

Help Mike survive the delirious world of Divider, through three chapters of carefully crafted traps and moving screen puzzles. Get ready for a spin you've never seen before!
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READY TO GET LOST IN A WILD ADVENTURE? ;)

In Swaps and Traps, you'll find yourself in a unique puzzle experience with cursed keys and moving screens. Divider will swap, rotate and even flip your world.


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A Hat That Changes Everything

Mike is a decent man. An ordinary one, you might say. But he is no pushover when it comes to capturing the enchanted hat from his nemesis, Divider. You see, Divider’s hat changes everything, including the position and direction of the screen. Mike’s only hope is to collect the cursed keys, and catch Divider through different locations and traps.
Swaps and Traps is a fun little game, which will challenge your platformer skills as well as your eyes and necks. As you collect a key in a scene, you also trigger the main trap of the game. Portions of your screen will swap, turn and even flip horizontally and vertically to give you one unique adventure.

Difficult Bundle of Joy

Swaps and Traps has a retro vibe, with simple gameplay against high level difficulty.

• 3 Worlds: Let’s Jungle, Night Watch and Divider’s Den
  
• 100+ levels
  
• Insane bonus levels
  
• Playful music
  
• Entertaining sound
  
• 100+ achievements
  
• Trading cards
  
• 5-6 hours gameplay
  
• An adventure to remember

CONTROLS

• Left-Right/AD to run
  
• Up/Space to jump (short press for short jump)
  
• TAB to see the screen in the original view

GAMEPADS

Swaps and Traps currently supports:

• Logitech F310, F710, Dual Action, RumblePad 2
  
• Xbox One and Xbox 360
  
• Sony DualShock 2, 3, 4
  
• Saitek P880 and P990
  
• Thrustmaster Dual Analog 3.2
  
• XiaoMi Gamepad
  
• Generic dual analog gamepads

LOCALIZATION

We thank our translators who helped us bring Swaps and Traps to more gamers.

• German: Oussama Berdoudi
  
• Brazilian Portugese: Eduardo Palma Ramos
  
• Simplified Chinese: Chang Hong Lua
  
• Russian: Aleksandra Frolova
  
• French: Barry-Franklin
  
• Spanish: Elias Martinez and Gema Hernández Moral

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Title: Swaps and Traps
Genre: Action, Indie
Developer:
TeamTrap
Publisher:
TeamTrap
Release Date: 12 Feb, 2018

Minimum:

• OS: Microsoft® Windows® 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10, 32 bit
  
• Processor: 2 core, 2.0GHz or better
  
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: Graphics card made in 2010 or later
  
• DirectX: Version 9.0c
  
• Storage: 350 MB available space

English,Turkish,French,German,Russian,Simplified Chinese

I dig puzzle-platformers, but what excited me even more about this fun game was the fact that it was deveoped by the people I know.

A long time ago, in a game jam (a game development event) far, far away, my team happened to be working at the desk next to TeamTrap's, the team that developed Swaps and Traps. The devs probably don't know about it, but it was exciting for me to watch them literally from the corner of my eye, while they were working hard on the very early prototype of Swaps and Traps. It looked like something I'd enjoy playing. I didn't know them by then but I got to meet their awesome team later on. Years went by, and one day, they decided to take the game mechanics of the early prototype and turn it into a more sophisticated platformer. I played it around the time it was released, first quarter of 2018, and this review I'm writing now is mostly based on my notes and what I remember from the experience.

Swaps and Traps is a challenging platformer with a unique mechanic. The way you see the world changes as you make progress. Sounds corny, right? But I mean literally. You need to collect some keys, and every time you pick one up, a part of your viewport is distorted. The world remains the same, but the way you see it is messed up. Left becomes up, right becomes down, up and down are right and left, and many other variations. You are not sure which way to go. Also, there are a bunch of traps. Be prepared to die. A lot. Swaps and Traps is not a piece of cake. Your neck will hurt from tilting it to the sides. You will get annoyed, angry and confused. But don't worry, your struggle will be rewarded soon enough with sweet victory and a bunch of achievements, even some for failing!

It's fair to say that I enjoyed the overall experience. I liked the challenge. I liked how the swapping mechanics were used brilliantly in level designs. I liked how the traps spiced the challenge up. The levels are well-crafted and tested; everything is neat and well-polished. Voice acting of the characters and their scripts are pretty entertaining and helps distract from the stress of falling off an edge or getting squished under a giant and heavy whatever.

If you are looking for some tough challenge, I'd definitely recommend Swaps and Traps.