Swarmlake

Swarmlake is an ultra-intense first-person shooter ballet about fighting a record-breaking swarm.

Swarmlake is a fps, arena shooter and retro game developed and published by Dominique Grieshofer.
Released on March 12th 2018 is available only on Windows in 29 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Spanish - Latin America and Vietnamese.

It has received 1,649 reviews of which 1,581 were positive and 68 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Swarmlake into these genres:

FPS Arena Shooter Retro First-Person Bullet Hell Great Soundtrack Atmospheric Casual Shooter Shoot 'Em Up Arcade Action Colorful Difficult Score Attack Singleplayer Replay Value Fast-Paced Family Friendly

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core i3 / AMD A6 @ 2.4GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Storage: 10 MB available space
Additional Notes: OpenGL 3.3+

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

This game is more chaotic than a 3kd eomm mlg tournament hosted on a 9v9 shipment game mwIII

June 2024

Swarmlake is very much a flow game ,you live fast,you die fast,then you do it again. The formula on display here portrays a master of what is simple and simply exhilarating,while it goes for a radically diffrent aproach to design than of Dominique Grieshofers other game("Refunct") it still caries the same markings of ' less is more ' The simplistic graphics take a backseat to get you quickly familiarised with the gameplay loop and not inundate you with needless clutter. Those touches allow the player to focus fully on their 101 and enjoy what's there in this quaint project. Despite that my main complaint is the infrequent loss of clarity in how close you're to failing,there really isn't one simple solution to the problem, because sometimes you'll go right through the enemies,but other times you won't. I belive this mechanic should be explained more clearly,as I'd really like to know ,when this bypass is legible and when it's not. Overall,this might not be for you,nothing appeals to everybody ,right,but it is dirt cheap on sale and something that can easily let you see something new,keeping you entertained for a couple or a coulpe dozen minutes.I'd reccomend you'd give it ashot.

April 2024

Swarmlake is a swarm-shooter with explosive mines that feels somewhat shallow and random/luck-based. After 0.3 hours I already have all achievements and reached the (abstract/intermediate) 10k points goal. The simple formula, game, and highscore-leaderboards remain as viable and - outside of the perceived shallowness - well executed. * Swarm shooter * Reach explosive mines * 0.3 hours for all achievements (reaching 10k points)

March 2024

Simple game, very fun, good quality graphics, decent music and for almost no price! Recommend 100%

Feb. 2024

SWARMLAKE is one the best games I have ever played. From the moment you boot it up, you're given a surge of adrenaline. There are no long loading screens, large install files, no filler bullshit, it's just pure fun stripped down into a game. At first, you won't know what's going on on your screen -- it'll seem like a jumble of bright lights, then death. But five minutes later, you'll find yourself gracefully swerving through the hundreds of enemies on your screen. 9/10. It runs on any potato PC, too.

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2.99€

9.1

1,581

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Developer

Dominique Grieshofer

Publisher

Dominique Grieshofer

Release 12 Mar 2018

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