Basically, The Swapper is a puzzle game. However, its subject matter is deeper than that. It threads along the subjective theme of whether clones have souls too. If this discourse is puzzling already, wait until you tackle the puzzles themselves. At the start of the game, you will be given the swapper device that helps you clone your character within the line of sight. Up to four clones can be used at once and they imitate how the main character moves in the exact detail. Eventually you can have the four clones join the original body before they die.

But what makes the game partly controversial is its projected belief that through a swapper, one's soul can be transferred to a clone. Accompanied with chat windows and conversations throughout the game, undertones of science and materialism are also given light. While it does not impose anything on the gamer, what they present make anyone curious or skeptic about the subject. Yet beyond the philosophical foundations, it is no puzzle that the game itself is worth the hours.

With the swapper, you can shift the control from one body to another. This way, you can reach places that you haven't been like protected areas and elevated sectors. With the click of the mouse, you can place a clone in your preferred destination and swap your game soul into it. Be wary of the game's lights as well. When the sector's light is blue, clones can walk through it but not cloning process can be done there. In red sectors, the swapper's beam will not work. Violet sectors have both restrictions.

By handling the color-coded sectors alone, one has to devise a sound strategy that will let him conquer this steep challenge despite the disadvantages. If you find this challenge easy, wait until you have gone through areas that can reverse gravity. Imagine dealing with these while solving the puzzles at hand. It's not that the puzzles are extremely tough. Rather, the unfavourable odds can make you lose focus even though the solution is already in your mind.

Another positive feature about the game is its graphics that seems to be inspired by clay animation. The striking sets are made of materials which can be commonly seen around and the noir lighting makes for a creepy yet edgy background. It's hard enough to produce animation out of clay. But to make that and transform it into a murky world is enough to make the game worth playing.

However, The Swapper has its own share of bugs. First, the game's progression is linear with rooms containing a unique puzzle. Each puzzle is independent from the other and this makes the game more of a puzzle collection rather than an adventure. However, this means that a player can choose what puzzles to solve in order to move into the next areas. Once he has gained more knowledge on how to solve more puzzles, he can go back to the unsolved ones to collect more orbs.

Aside from the puzzles itself, the game's philosophical standpoint can be quite puzzling to games too. The ideas presented are something that you can ponder on even after playing the game. Fuse these into the puzzles and you get an interesting plot that can be confusing, exciting or underwhelming. But as engaging the plot is, gamers will grow tired of puzzles too. Thus, it is a good thing that the game can be finished in about four hours when you breeze through it.

Without question, The Swapper is one of the games that will give your brain an extensive exercise. It's not just the puzzles that you have to think about and solve. Rather, the beliefs and ideas that will be shared in the screen will make you search for what is true, with or without lighting and clay animation.