Size Five Games have (re-)announced The Swindle. The game was dead for over a year, but have been resurrected into a "Steampunk Cybercrime Caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing their cash, and running away", and it is looking might fine. The tagline is "Spelunky crossed with Deus Ex”.

You are playing as yourself as a master-criminal living in a zeppelin, and you hire thieves to break into various procedural generated buildings. If your thief die, you can hire a new one and start over. As you go along, you will be able to buy upgrades to enhance your thieves skills. The game stars out as a stealth game in the beginning of each break-in, which turns into an action game when are discovered.


Website: http://www.sizefivegames.com/games/theswindle/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysY46cp_RGE

I was expecting another irate customer who didnt read the terms of refund...

:D

Who cares what we thought the thread was about, am I the only one who thinks that game sounds way cool? Granted when you think of Steampunk and a thief, a certain other series comes to mind, but this really does sound nice.

'advancedhero' apparently - he put a ':D' and everything, don't know if you missed that or...

(j/k, I understand the concept of rhetorical questions really - I'm SUCH a kidder!)

Wow! Looks really cool! Will the game be DRM-free?

I was very sad when Dan cancelled it, so I'm quite happy to hear it's back. It looks and sounds very different from what I remember, however.

Gun Monkeys are tied to Steamworks Multiplayer. But for single player - the other Size Five Games are DRM free

Did you post about the game the last time it was announced?
I remember someone showing a game with similar concepts, but the gameplay was much faster, and there was a lot of very cool vertical movement.

no, and I did a quick search. I do not think it was posted here back then. Not sure which game you are thinking about? I prefer my games to not be so quick :)

Hmm, I'll see if I can find it.
It looked like stealth Super Meat Boy, so I doubt if that would tickle your fancy :p

**edit**
Found it, it was called Gunpoint.
When I saw it, it was a very early development video, so I thought it might have evolved into The Swindle.
But the gameplay and style is so different that it'd be crazy to change it that much.

Sorry to derail, not trying to advertise or anything :p