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SWARMRIDERS

Walter Machado · 2016-06-15

Steam

ActionIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 15, 2016 (Linux), Jun 30, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 15, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

SWARMRIDERS is a FREE "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" ARCADE mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing minigame" made as a bonus content for the UBERMOSH community.

1
playing now
89%
positive of 623 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 42% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $2.19 at Steam (2022-06-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

40 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Danish, Spanish - Latin America, Finnish…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,51260%4
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

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Census log

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

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