About
SwanGamedle is a set of daily puzzles about video games and the people who make them. New puzzles arrive every midnight, the same for every player, so you can race your friends to the answer.
Modes
- Classic Type game titles: the guess card shows how your pick compares with the hidden game — genres, year, PEGI, critic scores, country, hero, platforms, studio and publisher.
- More or Less Ten rounds in a row: which of two games has the higher Metacritic score, the bigger development budget or more first-year sales.
- Overlaps The circles are games, their overlaps say what those games share. Every circle is hidden: guess the value in each region from its open category and name the games.
- People A game industry figure is hidden: gender, birth year, country and roles. Hints after 5, 10 and 15 guesses — games they worked on.
Where the data comes from
The database is compiled and checked by hand: over a thousand games from 1972 to today and a few dozen industry figures. Every game has genres, player modes, release year, platforms, country, studio, publisher, engine, setting, main hero and series.
Critic scores come from Metacritic, the age rating from PEGI. Development budgets are based on public statements and estimates, so they are approximate. First-year sales are official figures from publishers, studios and platform holders only. Covers are loaded from Wikipedia.
Progress and privacy
The site has no accounts. Statistics, win streaks and the “My games” list are kept only in your browser (localStorage) and are never sent to the server. To move your progress to another device, download the file in your profile and load it there. One thing does go to the server — the anonymous result of the daily round, which adds up to the mode statistics shown in the final panel; the privacy policy has the details.
Cookies and analytics
The site uses Yandex Metrica and, if you allowed it, Google Analytics: they store cookies and collect information about the visit — pages, device, browser. That shows which modes players enjoy and what gets in their way.
You can turn analytics on or off at any time in the privacy policy, where the details live too. It does not affect the game.
Copyright
SwanGamedle is a fan project and is not affiliated with the developers or publishers of the games mentioned. Game titles, covers and trademarks belong to their owners and are used only so the games can be recognised.