From I to X / Achievement Guide & spoilerless hints

I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X / A step-by-step achievement guide [plus spoilerless hints] for The Swapper

Message from Home

The Swapper's achievements are quite unusuals and interesting : they give rise to a hidden side-quest, independent from the main story. The only indication about them is the list on Steam interface : I, II, III ... In this way, they constitute the exploration part of the game, which complements the puzzle part.

There are 10 achievements : each one is a message to read on a console located in a hidden room. Those secrets « Message from Home » reveal a bit more about the story.

Finding the hidden rooms by oneself is pretty rewarding, so there's a "basics" section below !
The full guide starts after it. To refer to a precise one, check the index on the right →

Basics [spoilerless hints]

If you look for a little help but not a complete achievement walkthrough, read this section only. Further : spoilers ! (maps, total Orb's number...)

• A hidden room >>> a console >> a message > an achievement
  
  
• Achievements are unlocked once you read the corresponding message on the console.
  
  
• If you read one, then die or quit the game before a checkpoint, the steam achievement will be unlocked anyway, but not the Message from Home in the memory log of the game.
  
  
• Secret rooms are always hidden behind "solid-like" walls. When it's the case, your swapper's red ray is visible through those fake walls, instead of being stopped.
  
  
• Finding them is more intuitive than it seems. Nothing is set completely randomly. The game leaves clues when a hidden room is near (useless objects, rooms, paths...)
  
  
• They all are allocated chronologically throughout the game (so if you find the II before the I, you'll find the missing one by retracing your steps) --- and quite equally (so as you progress, you can roughly evaluate where a hidden room is supposed to be).
  
  
• Most of them are reachable by swapping. Here are the exceptions :
  V, VII and X are located in "non-swap" areas
  
  
• None can be permanently missed. You can cross the map and reach them at anytime.
  But if you want to collect them all during the 1st play :
  do it before activating the last console (which requires all >124< Orbs)
  
  
• Trust your good old video game's exploration reflexes (really) ^^

Achievement Guide

Hidden Consoles Locations

[click on pictures to enlarge them if needed]

→ Ⅰ

Message from Home # 1

Area : Quarantine
Description : Watchers, red lights and asteroïds

Set under the white spotlight and swap upward

Then swap to the right to reach the first hidden room

→ Ⅱ

Message from Home # 2

Area : Gardens
Description : Spotlights, pit and plants

Swap to the pit's bottom left-hand corner

Then walk or swap to the left, through the plants ...

→ Ⅲ

Message from Home # 3

Area : Cargo Bay
Description : Long sparkling travel-funnel

Start with all the clones (there's a clone-fizzler near to the right, behind a block)

Swap as far as possible inside the travel-funnel (be quick : you take it the wrong way !)

Repeat instantly the move to reach the corridor's corner. Once above it, swap far downward

... then at the bottom, swap the last clone through the wall to the right

→ Ⅳ

Message from Home # 4

Area : Laboratory Access
Description : Honeybee alveolus and broken electric thingy

Go down to the pit

and swap to the left, behind the electric arcs (it hurts!)

→ Ⅴ

Message from Home # 5

Area : Xeno Technology Research
Description : Teleport, moving antenna and floating boxes

Two little boxes ...
Climb on the upper box

The hidden room is here, behind the upper left corner (lighted on the screenshot)

Take a deep breath and jump high and far ! (swap unavailable)

→ Ⅵ

Message from Home # 6

Area : Xeno Technology Research
Description : Puzzle

Solve the puzzle, then visit the place this way :

→ Ⅶ

Message from Home # 7

Area : Sector 3 Lift
Description : Blue fog, Watchers and ceiling's gravity-switch

Another area without swapping available

First, start from the previous room to the right, to reverse your gravity by walking on the gravity-switch. Then enter the room

From the ceiling, run and jump over the gravity-switch (start jumping close to it !)

... and continue cheerfully to the left

→ Ⅷ

Message from Home # 8

Area : Solar Panel Maintenance Modules
Description : Big notice and chimney

Swap to the ceiling, in that kind of pipe's entrance

Continue swapping up, along the right side

Once you're high enough in the dark, the room is located on the right

→ Ⅸ

Message from Home # 9

Area : Control Access
Description : Space forest and momentum !

Start from the bottom of the room, and walk on the gravity-switch, to fall upward

Once in the column, wait till you're at the climax of your inverted fall

Then swap as far as possible to the top, several times ...

... to reach the fake roof, and finally the room, by swapping to the left

→ Ⅹ

Message from Home # 10

Area : Command
Description : Blue fog, Watchers and friendly elevator

At the end of this blue room. No swap allowed. Just a high jump at the top of the elevator arrival :

You'll have to increase your jump using the elevator's ascend force. Switch it on from downstairs ...

... wait till the elevator is about to arrive, then at the last moment use its dynamic to jump to the upper right corner

... Here. Only a few steps to the right !

Done !

Well, cosmonaut, hope this guide has been helpful ! (...and my english correct)

Sounds, aesthetics, concept and gameplay make The Swapper a great and particular atmospheric puzzle game. Did you know that visuals and textures have been handmade using clay and everyday objects, before being digitized ?

photos source : Facepalm Games

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[Darky]

The game freezes when interacting with any of the consoles so I can't read the messages but the achievement is awarded

[gardian06]

When interacting with the first consol the game hard-locked.

[White latex wolf]

спс большое потом я знаю как вы полнит

[ZealPath]

Thank you for this awesome guide, it was wonderful to have the hints section to be able to try to partially find some of the secret areas without it feeling like a needle in a haystack search all over the game map!

[Meat-King, The Ultimate]

Thank you for this excellent guide.

[Rainbow]

Thanks for this amazing guide ! Loved the way you had a "hints" part, it was much more enjoyable to use

[Xane Tempest]

Rated up and thank you for a spoiler free version. Hints and tips are amazingly helpful when you are totally lost. Thank you again!

[Lord]

cool

[TheWitcher]

thanks . master.

[Spanky]

Extremely dope, thanks!