The Swords of Ditto | |
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Developer(s) | Onebitbeyond |
Publisher(s) | Devolver Digital |
Director(s) | Jonathan Biddle |
Designer(s) | Jonathan Biddle |
Programmer(s) | Jonathan Biddle |
Artist(s) | David Hankin |
Writer(s) | Ed Fear |
Composer(s) | Niklas Ström |
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Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
The Swords of Ditto is an action role-playing video game developed by Onebitbeyond and published by Devolver Digital.
The Swords of Ditto is an action role-playing video game with roguelike elements played from a top-down perspective.[1][2] Players take control of a randomly generated hero character that is tasked with defeating an enemy known as Mormo within a certain amount of time.[3] The game has a cyclical structure for iterative playthroughs; the main adventure repeats with a new character and altered world once the time limit has elapsed.[3] The game supports two-player cooperative play.[3]
The Swords of Ditto was developed by Onebitbeyond, an indie studio founded by Jonathan Biddle, who serves as game's creative director.[4] Biddle was previously a co-owner and design director of Curve Digital; he left the company in 2015 to form Onebitbeyond.[5] The Swords of Ditto's writer, Ed Fear, noted that the game's story was designed to be unobtrusive due to the roguelike nature of the game.[6]
The game was announced by its publisher Devolver Digital in June 2017.[1] The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, Linux, macOS on 24 April 2018,[3][7] and Nintendo Switch on 2 May 2019 under the game title, The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse.[8]
The free update titled Mormo's Curse was released on 2 May 2019 which included a big overhaul to the overall structure of the game, performance improvements, and bug fixes.[9] This update also made the game available for Nintendo Switch.
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Metacritic | PC/PS4: 74/100[10][11] NS: 76/100[12] |
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Nintendo Life | [8] |
TouchArcade | [13] |
The Swords of Ditto received "mixed or average" reviews from professional critics according to review aggregator Metacritic.[10][11]