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Drone Swarm

Drone Swarm is a very unique take on tactical games. Control 32,000 drones in quick, fast-paced fights. Combine your swarm abilities and counter constantly evolving attacks of your opponents. Survive varying enemy waves, get upgrades to your swarm, and make it to the next system alive!

Released Oct 20, 2020Mixed · 62% of 280
Steam Deck PlayableIndieStrategySci-fiActionReal Time TacticsCombat
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
Drone Swarm
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Developer: stillalive studios
Publisher: astragon Entertainment
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About Drone Swarm

Drone Swarm is an entirely new and unique take on tactical games. Experience the novel way of controlling a huge swarm and the gameplay it allows!

Drone Swarm Control 32,000 individually simulated drones.

Drone Swarm Face three alien factions in quick, intense fights.

Drone Swarm Protect your immovable mothership at all costs.

Drone Swarm The swarm is your resource. Use it wisely to attack and defend at the same time.

Drone Swarm Enemies have many different abilities: lasers, rockets, mines, fast moving, shields, drone disabling weapons, repair beams and many more.

Drone Swarm Counter their tactics: every encounter has a unique combination of enemies and their abilities. Find out how they work to win!

Drone Swarm Get upgrades to your swarm and mothership. Broaden your toolbox of defensive and offensive abilities.

Drone Swarm Make it to the next system alive and find New Earth!

Drone Control


Select the drone behavior: attack, defend, physical or energy. Then draw paths and drones will execute the order.



Put drones in attack mode and attack enemies where they are most vulnerable. Evade their defenses, go around their shields.



Put the drones in defence mode and they'll form walls that shield you from enemy lasers and rocket blasts.



Put the drones in physical mode and you can cannonball into them, fling asteroids into enemies, bang enemies against each other, many tactical combinations are possible.



If you fail, analyze what went wrong and try a different tactic. Master and combine several drone abilities to counter constantly evolving attack waves.

Defend your mothership, win the attack waves, upgrade the swarm and your mothership, get to the next system alive!

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Game details

Developers
stillalive studios
Publishers
astragon Entertainment
Release date
Oct 20, 2020
Genres
Indie, Strategy, Sci-fi, Action, Real Time Tactics, Combat, Physics, Singleplayer, Tactical, RTS, Space, Fast-Paced, Real-Time, Experimental, Cartoony, Adventure, Story Rich, Top-Down, Fighting, Flight
Modes
Single-player
Steam features
34 achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Themes
Action, Science fiction
Engine
Unity

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedSupportedSupported
GermanSupportedSupportedSupported
FrenchSupportedNot supportedSupported
ItalianSupportedNot supportedSupported
Spanish (Spain)SupportedNot supportedSupported
JapaneseSupportedNot supportedSupported
PolishSupportedNot supportedSupported
Portuguese (Brazil)SupportedNot supportedSupported
System requirements

Minimum

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-2120 3,3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 975 3,6 GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5970 / AMD Radeon RX 550
  • Storage: 5 GB available space

Recommended

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K 3,4GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 560 3,6 GHz
  • Storage: 5 GB available space

Ratings

Steam reviews

Mixed

62% of 280

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IGDB critics

78

3 critic scores

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Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Playable

  • Shows button icons from other controllers
  • Open the on-screen keyboard yourself when typing
  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Text is readable on the Deck screen
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Playable

ProtonDB: Silver · 11 reports See reports

DLC & editions

Also on Steam

  • Drone Swarm - Soundtrack
  • Drone Swarm - Deluxe Upgrade

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Release date: Oct 20, 2020

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