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Swarm Arena

Dedication Games · 2010-08-19

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Aug 19, 2010 (Linux), Jul 04, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take control of a virtual organism in this unique indie arcade title, while unlocking Steam Achievements and climbing the leaderboards!

Swarm Arena is a 2010 Action, Casual and Indie game priced at $1.99, with an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (70% of 63 reviews).

0
playing now
70%
positive of 63 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 2.5k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 63 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2017-06-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320112025Week of 2011-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2011-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2011-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492015-01-012026-01-052015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-01-02 — best price $4.992015-06-11 — best price $3.492015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-11-25 — best price $1.992015-12-01 — best price $4.992015-12-22 — best price $2.492016-01-04 — best price $4.992016-02-05 — best price $2.992016-02-12 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $0.492017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-11-03 — best price $3.992017-11-23 — best price $1.992017-11-28 — best price $3.992017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-01-04 — best price $3.992018-11-21 — best price $0.512018-11-27 — best price $3.992018-12-21 — best price $0.512019-01-03 — best price $3.992020-07-15 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $0.992021-01-05 — best price $1.992021-06-24 — best price $0.992021-07-08 — best price $1.992021-12-22 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $1.992022-01-27 — best price $0.992022-02-03 — best price $1.992022-06-23 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
96.3%
earned "Birth"
8.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

PvEPvP2.5DActionArcadeCasualShooterTop-DownControllerBullet Hell

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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