The Swarm

The Swarm

Solsgames · 2022 · Action, Arcade, 2D Fighter, Shoot 'Em Up, Top-Down Shooter

PC
Very Positive83% · 53
This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →

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About The Swarm

The swarm is an Abysal Boss rush.
Defeat your enemy, upgrade your stats, go to the next boss and repeat !
use your remaining life points (materialized by little glowing fireflies) to deal damage.
You can only be killed if there is no more firefly surrouding you.

How many creatures will you deafeat before being vaniquished ?

The Game is still in BETA.
Upcoming Updates will add new contents but all the main Gameplay mechanics are already there.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players have mixed feelings about this abandoned beta game. Those who enjoyed it praise the free price, accessible graphics performance, and challenging combat system with difficulty settings, though some note it's genuinely hard and fun. However, the majority criticism centers on the game being abandoned since 2023 at version 0.7, with very low average playtimes suggesting poor retention, difficulty spikes that frustrate even experienced players, and lack of updates for over a year, making the upcoming paid sequel a hard sell without significant improvements.

Not recommended Apr 27, 2025
Edited to a no review, for the following reasons: Game was Abandoned in 2023 at Beta 0.7 they started working on the Swarm 2. Swarm 2 demo is currently 8-17-25 unplayable. the play times on the reviews for this game should give you an indication that this is a BAD BAD game. literally the ONLY thing going for this game is that it is FREE. and the sequel will not be. so.... (also, i cant review the Demo of Swarm 2, so congrats, its a NO as well) please attempt to play the demo for (Swarm 2)before committing to the game. Lets go over the Positives. #1 its free. #2 .... be wary of a game that the average review play time is like maybe 1 hour. But hey, its free right? The game appears to have been abandoned in 2023 at Beta 0.7 ish, yet they took time to advertise that there is a Swarm 2. hmm.. couldn't even finish the first one huh?
Recommended Dec 23, 2024
this is such a good game the grathics are so good and you can play with a pretty bad computer i do recommend i love how the fights work it is very hard but there is a seting to make it easer i havint incouterd any bugs yet
Recommended Oct 9, 2024
the game is hard and a little bit fun but its last update was around a year ago
Recommended Jun 24, 2024
very fun game would recomend
Recommended May 22, 2024
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Recommended Apr 6, 2024
*first impression* -After first few runs trying it skipping the tutorial, armed with nothing but my own wits, and 40+ years of gaming experience, I was quick to learn that neither were going to do me a lick of good here! -So throwing my pride to the side, I did what I should’ve just done from the start, I went through the brief tutorial. -when starting a game you’re not familiar with, it’s always the wise choice to go through the tutorial whenever available, because you just don’t know what the developers have in store for you. -Now armed with the knowledge of how this game works, and how you’re supposed to approach the enemies, things will at least go a bit more smoothly, right? -NOPE! I just kept dying over and over again. -Even with about 5-6 more visits to the tutorial thinking I must’ve missed something important, I still kept coming up short, and my runs didn’t seem to get all that much better. -I noticed that when you go around collecting “swarms” which are the “bullets” of your main weapon, that once you use them and the make contact with an enemy… they’re gone! -this is frustrating because there aren’t a whole lot of swarm areas to collect bullets, and they go so qu…

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