Insect Swarm
Fair · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $1.40/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 8 and Oct 21, at about $2.44 (65% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 65% ($2.44)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The insect swarm is a swarm consists of millions of alien insects, and you, as the only survival on this barren planet, will have to fight against them dauntlessly. Good luck!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.44. That was September 2025. It has been discounted 42 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 27 percent on value. It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Minishoot' Adventures ($14.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Tesla vs Lovecraft ($14.99, scores 59).
Of the 689 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 356 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
43% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 03:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Don't know whats wrong with this game, it made my previous PC shutdown while I play it and it does the same to my current setup. Game seems cool to play but just cant recommend it (obviously).
THe game runs well, and is very, very simplistic. You get dropped into a desert and told to farm crystals and kill bugs. Raise numbers. Kill big bugs. Go. When you kill the first big bug you get a mech. The game gets very stale, very quickly. My best explanation of it is an incremental game that requires a lot of manual movement with very little novelty in it. I cannot in good faith recommend it, but if you just...
Insect Swarm - "Shoot first, think never." If you've ever wanted to hold down the trigger and delete an entire ecosystem of bug-monsters without a single coherent thought in your head, congratulations - this game has you covered. You spawn, you shoot, you level up, repeat until your brain goes into screensaver mode. And honestly? It's kinda fun. Pros: - Fast, satisfying pew-pew - No level cap, basically endless mode...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Insect Swarm scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1999170/insect-swarmReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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