The Unfinished Swan

The Unfinished Swan
Developer(s)Santa Monica Studio
Giant Sparrow
Armature Studio (PS4, Vita)
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Ian Dallas
Joshua M. Sarfaty
Hokyo Lim
Producer(s)Max Geiger
Designer(s)Benjamin Esposito
Mike Niederquell
Programmer(s)Joshua Sarfaty
Joshua Beeler
Chris Oates
Gavin Dodd
Eric Itomura
David Seims
Nathan Frost
Artist(s)Hokyo Lim
Gary Brunetti
Cory Davis
Miriam Nagi
Flavien Courbier
Writer(s)Ian Dallas
Hans Rodionoff
Composer(s)Joel Corelitz
EngineGamebryo[4]
Platform(s)
ReleasePS3
  • NA: October 23, 2012
  • PAL: October 24, 2012
  • JP: December 13, 2012
PS4, Vita
Windows, iOS
  • WW: September 10, 2020
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

The Unfinished Swan is an adventure video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and Giant Sparrow and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 in October 2012. The game starts with a completely white space in which the player, a boy named Monroe (voiced by Nicholas Marj), is chasing after a swan that has escaped a painting, while simultaneously learning the story of a lonely king (voiced by Terry Gilliam). The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita versions of the game, which was developed by Armature Studio, was released in October 2014.[5][6] The game was released on Microsoft Windows and iOS by Annapurna Interactive in September 2020.

  1. ^ Aaron Kaufman (October 23, 2014). "The Unfinished Swan Lands on PS4, PS Vita Oct. 28th". PlayStation Blog. Archived from the original on October 23, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  2. ^ 2014-10-14, The Unfinished Swan dated for PS4, PS Vita in Japan Archived May 30, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Gematsu
  3. ^ Aaron Kaufman (October 23, 2014). "The Unfinished Swan graces PS4 & PS Vita next week". PlayStation Blog. Archived from the original on October 23, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  4. ^ "Jobs at Giant Sparrow". Archived from the original on September 7, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  5. ^ "Until Dawn, The Unfinished Swan, and Journey Confirmed for PS4". IGN.com. July 25, 2014. Archived from the original on March 22, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
  6. ^ "Journey and the Unfinished Swan coming to PS4". Gematsu. August 12, 2014. Archived from the original on September 19, 2014. Retrieved August 12, 2014.