The Swords of Ditto

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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The Swords of Ditto received "mixed or average" reviews from professional critics according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[10][11]