Swarmlake on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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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+

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March 2025

How Swarmlake manages to be so simple yet so addicting is something I will never understand. A rather easy game to get into but incredibly hard to master. Thank god we only need 10k points for all the achievements. 9/10

March 2025

There's a certain intrinsic beauty in the chaotic - a method to all forms of madness One might not be able to intellectualize exactly what they're doing at a given moment in SWARMLAKE , an endless score-chaser first-person-shooter/platformer hybrid that tasks one with jumping deftly in and around massive swarms of enemies - some clusters of spheres that follow you around, others incomprehensibly tall walls of pointed death - collecting satisfyingly-explosive orbs to stave off the horde for as long as one can, but something about the gameplay just feels right in some instinctual way. The deeper one falls into the swarm, the more one naturally steps in tune with its intricate, captivating dance, learning little techniques and bits of gameplay knowledge like making right-angle turns to maximize enemy drop pickups or facing your direction of motion to clear out enemies in your path that offer the game a sense of skill progression and depth far beyond what its minimalist presentation suggests. Each run gives one the sense that they understand the game more, that they can wrangle with the chaos a little bit better (provided the game doesn't randomly decide to kill them as it feels sometimes, which is my one gripe) than the last time, which makes for a perfect, maddeningly-addictive way to waste an afternoon - or much, much longer if you feel like honing your skills to take on this game's leaderboards.

Feb. 2025

✅✅You run away from geometric shapes, shoot them with a rifle or shotgun and collect crystals that fall out of them. Your goal is to get as many as possible (the highest achievement on Steam is 10,000 crystals ✅Simple gameplay ✅Nice graphics ✅Nice soundtrack ✅Cheap gamre ✅You have to try a little to get 10,000 crystals ✅Simple controls ✅Dynamic gameplay ❌ You can't play it for long because it might get boring. ❌ Very repetitive, there are no levels

Jan. 2025

Great game. Didn't like it at first. The game wasn't clear on what to do. I'm glad I came back to it. I ended up having a great time. A few tips for the players that are like me and didn't understand the game starting out. Max out the FOV and sensitivity settings. This will give you the best picture of the arena and help your reaction time. The key to playing the game and getting a high score is to keep pursuing the bombs. (The purple blocks.) These are what push back the swarm. The bullet hose the player is working with wont hold back the swarm, it only clears the path to the bombs. You have maneuverability on your side. (You can jump all the way to the ceiling of the arena.) Just keep getting the bombs and dodging through the swarms. Keep the bullet hose pointed in the direction that you are moving. (This allows the player to push through the swarms.)

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)

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