Games Like Swing Shift

THE CITY WORKS NIGHTS. SO DO YOU.

Swing Shift is a grappling-hook game about momentum you build yourself. Runs are short and end in one number: how far you got.

Your hook is a projectile. It goes exactly where you aim it, bites whatever it runs into, and catches nothing at all if you aim badly, it never picks a target for you, and there is no one to blame. While you hang on, the rope winches in, and shortening a swinging rope speeds it up, the same way it does on a playground. Release pays out by how much of the swing you actually committed to: let go early and you get almost nothing, carry the swing and you launch.

Swinging backwards is not a bug. It is what happens when you let go at the wrong time.

CONTROLS

Mouse aims and fires. Up and Down work the winch. Left and Right pump the swing.

The winch is where speed comes from. Everything else is setup.

WHAT'S IN IT

WHAT IT ISN'T

No levels. No story. No upgrades — nothing you unlock makes you faster.

You, a rope, a city, and a number you would like to be bigger.