Swarm Grinder

Swarm Grinder is an action roguelite game with pixel art graphics. Battle enemies to make your way through a mass of spreading and evolving cells hosting dormant enemies. Collect a variety of game-changing skills and upgrades to create unique builds.

Swarm Grinder is a action roguelike, bullet hell and rogue-lite game developed by Last Bite Games and published by Last Bite Games and Gamersky Games.
Released on April 22nd 2024 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 9 languages: English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 1,091 reviews of which 864 were positive and 227 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Swarm Grinder into these genres:

Action Roguelike Bullet Hell Rogue-lite Action RPG Pixel Graphics Rogue-like RPG 2D Mechs Steampunk Controller Procedural Generation Top-Down Action Casual Sci-fi Robots Retro Singleplayer Soundtrack

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: Dual Core+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1 GB VRAM
Storage: 450 MB available space

MacOS

Processor: Dual Core+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1 GB VRAM
Storage: 450 MB available space

Linux

Processor: Dual Core+
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1 GB VRAM
Storage: 450 MB available space

Reviews

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Aug. 2024

While Swarm Grinder is a little starved for content - especially when compared to its competitors (only 3 characters/3 stages) it remains deceptively fun. It struggles with frame drops at higher difficulties even on a high end PC (i7 13700k/4070 Ti/32 Gb DDR5 RAM) but it isn't unplayable or game breaking in any way. I should note that I picked this up during the current sale at 50% off - but for the time I've gotten out already, I'd definitely say I've gotten my monies worth. The OST thankfully is pretty solid, as stated earlier there's only 3 stages so you'll be hearing those same songs a lot. All in all its a competent survivors-like and definitely worth the cost of admission when priced at 50% off or lower. TLDR: Aside from some small perfomance issues, and a lack of content - Swarm Grinder is surprisingly fun! 7.5/10 would recommend to most fans of the genre

Aug. 2024

Swarm Grinder is an intense arcade-style game where you face off against relentless waves of enemies in a fast-paced, bullet-hell environment. The gameplay is challenging yet addictive, requiring quick reflexes and strategic movement to survive the onslaught. With its vibrant visuals and smooth performance, it’s a perfect fit for the Steam Deck, allowing you to enjoy the chaotic action anytime, anywhere. If you’re a fan of challenging, adrenaline-pumping arcade games, Swarm Grinder is definitely worth a try.

July 2024

Gorgeous little game. In all aspects: - It looks gorgeous! - The design is incredibly tight and pulled off very well. The game will force you to spawn your own enemies to farm them for ammo, but always try to fall back and manage them before next push. - Different mechs and weapons styles play very uniquely, and within each there is space enough for a plenty of interesting builds, too. While most of those will use the weapons said mech specialises in, you can pull off some really crazy combos too! - Unlike some other games, every upgrade has a place in a build. Even the support skills play bigger role than usually, since they also follow the push-pull mantra of the game, and the more weapons you get, the more enemies you have to kill to fuel them. Support skills can balance it out and give you a breather. - The upgrade trees for all the skills feel absolutely brilliant. There will be "+50% DMG" upgrades here and there, but a lot of upgrades feel very unique and offer a meaningful choice. The final upgrades in each tree are absolutely massive and more often than not will be what you imagine your builds around. - Finding the upgrades you want is exactly easy/hard enough. If you seek to find and max out one skill, it's very easy. If you want to find exact 5 you need... that might take a few runs. Most of the time you settle into focusing into 2-3 skills you NEED, 1 you WANT and leave 1 or 2 spaces for whatever comes your way when those do not drop. And it feels glorious! - The progression system between the 3 mechs is simple yet fun. There is nothing super special about it, but it provides a feeling of guidance and provides goals to a genre that can feel very goal-less at times. And now for the bad things: - Some gadgets are "eh" at best. Worse yet, there isn't more of them. - Some balancing feels off, especially for ultimates. Worse, there ain't more of them. - Non that there are too few, I just want more. - There isn't more of this game. - No, for real, I want more.

June 2024

Swarm Grinder is a really unique entry in the survivor genre of games. I'd highly recommend checking this out if you like the genre. The way that Swarm Grinder is unique, is the fact that you don't have exp, instead you need clear mining sites and they drop 3 items that you pick between. The REALLY unique thing is that you have 2 resources to manage, your health and your fuel. Your fuel is constantly depleting, and getting upgrades (apart from a few) increases your fuel consumption. How do you get fuel? Killing enemies. This really makes you want to seek out enemies to fight as when you run out of fuel, you consume your health instead. Picking a passive build where you just stand still will not work here, and I think it's a really good gameplay mechanic. Other things that I think is also really good: -Enemies deal low damage, so your health is an actual resource and you don't need to worry about getting upgrades for it. -After a certain number of ugrades you get a special upgrade, which can really spice up your build. -Music is pretty decent, especially the transition between normal gameplay and when a wave is about to hit. -You need to complete actual objectives to rank up Things that I think could be better: -Although the current music track is good, there needs to be more variety -Enemy design is fairly mid, standard insect-like enemies, nothing very interesting.

May 2024

(+) Great roguelite elements Love the different skills and how they are implemented in the game Great idea with the "honeycombs". The game makes the player generate more enemies by deleting the honeycombs. So you may choose to take it slow and face enemies one by one, or you may dive into the combs and spawn more enemies into the battle field. Power up towers are a great addition (-) Not a huge fan of the colour palette, it becomes kinda hard to tell the earlier enemies apart from the background since they are almost the same colour. For me sessions take too long for an average roguelite adventure. I could say the game has a slow build up process.

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Developer

Last Bite Games

Publisher

Last Bite Games, Gamersky Games

Release 22 Apr 2024

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