Swarmlake
Worth it · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99, a BANGER if it drops to $2.04.
- Length
- 0.8h
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4600. Windows only.
Swarmlake is an ultra-intense first-person shooter ballet about fighting a record-breaking swarm.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in June 2018. Its cuts run 77 percent off as a rule. There have been 48 in the 9 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $2.04. The record reaches that level 43 times.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Devil Daggers ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Prodeus ($24.99, scores 58).
Of the 363 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 1,049 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.
0.8 hours to finish it, 2 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
At 0.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
61% start to 13% 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, 09:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great game about being attacked with barnacles and Doritos while doing gun ballet in the air
meh, 7/10, worth the 50 cents but not worth more. light on features. standard cheap game
This update completely ruined this for me. The gameplay is entirely up to RNG there's no pattern to the game at all, you just either have a great run and go far or you die straight away, and scoring is an extreme pain with achievements virtually impossible to earn them all. To top it off if the game ever connected controller with the game it would lock it up instantly.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Swarmlake scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/793350/swarmlakeReviews 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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