Swing Copters

Swing Copters is a 2014 arcade video game released for iOS and Android on August 21, 2014. It was developed by Vietnamese video game developer .Gears, best known for Flappy Bird (2013). The player controls a character wearing a helmet with helicopter rotors, and the player changes the direction of the character by tapping the screen.

Swing Copters
Swing Copters icon
Developer(s)	.Gears
Publisher(s)	.Gears
Designer(s)	Nguyễn Hà Đông
Platform(s)	Android, iOS, Windows Phone
Release	WW: August 21, 2014
Genre(s)	Arcade
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Swing Copters gameplay

The easy-to-learn-but-hard-to-master gameplay consists of the player's tapping the screen to change the direction of the character.^[1] The game has a comparable high score system and is similar to Flappy Bird, but it is even more difficult to control the rapid, horizontal movements of the protagonist. If a player touches an obstacle, the game is over.^[2]

Reception

Swing Copters received generally "mixed or average" reviews, holding a Metacritic score of 56/100.^[3]

Sequel

A sequel, titled Swing Copters 2, was released worldwide on December 16, 2015.^[4]