Comparison

Swing Guy vs WICK

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Swing Guy

Control a daring hero who uses a rope to loop, dive, and master thrilling levels. Tap, aim, and launch your hook to soar through the air with smooth ragdoll physics. This game offers fun swing gameplay with addictive one-tap controls and hero missions in stunning 3D.

Highlights
  • Fun swing and rope gameplay
  • Smooth ragdoll physics
  • Loops, dives, and swing challenges
  • Addictive one-tap controls
  • Hero missions in stunning 3D
Features
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Swing, hook, and fly like a hero! In Swing Guy: Velocity Dash, you control a daring hero who uses a rope to loop, dive, and master thrilling levels. Tap, aim, & launch your hook, soar through the air, and enjoy smooth ragdoll physics as your hero takes on crazy challenges. Time your swings and prove you are the ultimate hook master. This physics game is easy to play but tough to master, as each swing brings new action and fun. Features: • Fun swing & rope gameplay • Smooth ragdoll physics and flying stunts • Loops, dives, and swing challenges • Addictive one-tap controls • Hero missions in stunning 3D Play now and become the ultimate hook master! Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GbpxnVVIbkFhbmj8uySwoizYkoCqPkcOluzGYpcZFd4/edit?usp=sharing Terms of Use: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1heFljdkZ47cJ9_ZX05GFOeOEDIKcDeei/view

About

WICK

Features
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The last sun has gone out. What is left of the light is a single burning thread, and it is held between your two fingers. You do not control a character. You control the rope. Both ends of the thread are your fingertips, and its total length never changes — so the distance between your fingers is the only input the game has. Bring them together and the thread sags into a basket: cold, dim, and able to cradle a falling ember and carry it across the room. Spread them apart and it snaps taut: hot enough to light a lantern, hot enough to burn through the gloom, and expensive enough to kill you. Because fuel is both your health and your light. Every second you burn bright is a second closer to the dark, so the room you can see is the room that is killing you. Lift one finger and that end pins itself in place, leaving the other free to sweep — one of several tactics the game never tells you about. WHAT YOU DO · Light the lanterns before the gloom snuffs them out · Cradle embers in the slack and ferry them to the brazier · Pull taut and sear the gloom before it eats your fuel · Find the oil pods, because nothing else will refill you NOTHING ELSE PLAYS LIKE THIS The taut blade and the slack basket are not two modes with a button between them. They are the same rope, and the only difference is how far apart your hands are. Nothing snaps to anything either: embers are loose particles that roll and settle wherever the rope happens to sag, so every catch is a placement problem rather than a timing test. Nothing in here is trying to sell you light. There is no advertising to sit through and nothing to buy — the thread you are handed at the start is the whole game, and no purchase will lengthen it by an inch. WICK asks for no account and no sign-in; your longest run is written down on your device and nowhere else, because the game simply carries no code with which to reach a network, so there is nothing to track you and nothing to report you. Every texture is drawn from scratch each time you launch and every sound is synthesised in the instant it is heard, which leaves the whole thing a couple of megabytes wide and perfectly content in a place with no signal at all. Two fingers. One thread. However far you get before the dark takes it back.

Screenshots

Swing Guy4 screens
WICK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: WICK at none against Swing Guy's shown. WICK also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Swing Guy's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swing Guy ships an update every 2 months, WICK monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Swing Guy versus WICK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwing GuyWICK
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (368 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings368 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size160 MB2 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperDaraz BridgeWON SEOK OH

In-app purchases

None

Swing Guy

No in-app purchases

None

WICK

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swing Guy free?
Swing Guy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WICK free?
WICK is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Swing Guy or WICK have ads?
Swing Guy shows ads; WICK does not.
Which is updated more often, Swing Guy or WICK?
Swing Guy ships an update every 2 months, and WICK monthly. Most recently, Swing Guy was updated on October 17, 2026 and WICK on October 2, 2026.

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