SWAPMEAT 1.0 Is Out Now

SWAPMEAT left Early Access on Wednesday with 93% Very Positive reviews on Steam from its day-one players, and the studio behind it carries one of the more remarkable founding pedigrees in indie development. One More Game was built by veterans of Warcraft, Diablo, League of Legends, and Guild Wars. The game they decided to make with that pedigree? A strange but fun body-horror roguelite about harvesting alien body parts and stitching yourself into a stronger abomination.

The premise is exactly what the title suggests: in the middle of a fight, you body parts from your enemies and equip them on your own body. Every part carries a unique power. Thousands of possible build combinations emerge across a single run thanks to the customizability of your body parts. A third-person shooter at its core, the part-swapping layer is what separates Swapmeat from every other roguelite on Steam.

What's New In Swapmeat Version 1.0

New planets expand the Swapmeat's environments beyond the Early Access build, new mutations add more build variety to an already deep roguelite loop, and a final boss gives the campaign a proper ending. A wave of quality-of-life improvements addresses the rough edges that Early Access players documented over the past year.

A hotfix was also released on Thursday, followed by version 1.1 today, making significant improvements to what was already an impressive launch.

The founding team's credits span some of the most-played games in history. Warcraft and Diablo defined the template for action RPG and real-time strategy respectively. League of Legends became the global standard for competitive multiplayer. Guild Wars pushed the live-service model before live-service was the industry default.

SWAPMEAT is a significant tonal departure from all of it: deliberately weird, deliberately indie, built around a mechanic that studios with bigger budgets would have considered too strange to ship. Seeing veterans in the industry venture into the unknown, embracing the weird, and shipping games they normally would not in their previous Triple A studios is exactly why indie gaming is in its golden age today. These are experienced developers who knew exactly what they were building, and the community of gamers rewarded them for sticking to their guns.

SWAPMEAT is available now on Steam.

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This story was originally published June 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM.