Swarm Arena

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Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 19.08.2020

1,59€

Preis Update 06.02.22

Get ready for a brand new experience! Take control of a virtual organism, develop your moves and become one with the swarm ? then the game has only just begun. Swarm Arena?s fresh and deep gameplay is a journey from relaxing aesthetics over mind-blowing action to pure tactics. Be fast. Be precise. Or simply enjoy the experience.

Play it YOUR way.

Key features:

Brand new gameplay experience
Ranked online multiplayer battles
2 independent gameplay modes
5 unique A.I.s
Evolutionary learning A.I.
Multiplayer battles on a single PC
Unlockable rewards
15 achievements
Adaptive music
Customizable rules
Global leaderboard
Multiple mouse & generic gamepad support
Beautiful visuals

Deutsch (1)
Englisch (9)

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63 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.06.12 17:35

Ein Spiel mit einer Interresanten Steuerung.

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Verfasst: 30.01.21 10:21

Someone please explain me, what the heck am I supposed to do in this game.

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Verfasst: 08.01.21 23:00

Swarm Arena is a minimalistic game where you control a swarm of particles and fight other swarms. Since there's no story we're jumping to graphics.

Graphics:

Swarm Arena goes for a very minimalistic art style, it's background is a space screen with a bunch of different colored particles flying around the screen. There's not much to talk about here, but it does it's job well, however I will say that sometimes when the action get's pretty hectic it becomes difficult to follow the action clearly.

Audio:

The audio design is honestly pretty mediocre and not to mention there's not much to talk about here as well. The music is overall just not very good and honestly could end up driving you insane over time. The other sound effects are also not that amazing, it very quickly turns very hectic and attacks your ears.

Gameplay:

The basic gameplay of Swarm Arena is you try to get to the core of a Swarm and you do this by collecting particles and charging them into an enemy swarm. You have a field around you to suck up particles and you can force them to attack the enemy particles. The challenge comes from the fact in certain difficulties the AI will learn your patterns and will use them against you, which will increase the difficulty.

Every so often there will be power ups that drop on the map and they grant you different awards like more particles, different patterns for your particles to follow. However most of these end up being useless as the best one is the spiral which is easily the best attack in the game. You can level them up by grabbing another same power up and that will do more damage, if you pick up another one it will revert you back, which ends up being annoying since sometimes they spawn in front of you while you're moving around.

The game is fine to play for the most part, but some of the AI you have to fight tends to be really annoying to deal with, as they often charge for the power ups and if you're already down many particles, it could be a losing fight going for any of those particles. It's intense and difficult, but the challenge quickly turns into pure annoyance.

You can play with other people and that would be the ideal way to experience the game as with another friend this could be a perfect game to test your skill and really bring out that friendly trash talk, however fighting the AI is just a miserable experience.

Verdict:

Swarm Arena is overall really mediocre and not worth playing if you're planning on playing it solo, with a friend I totally recommend it on a sale to have yourself some fun. It's unique and a ton of fun to play, but just not worth fighting with your sanity to go through the AI gauntlet.

Final Rating:
5/10

Pros:
+ Gameplay can get pretty intense
+ Fun when you really understand the mechanics
+ Perfect couch co-op

Cons:
- The AI fights tend to be really unfair
- Audio design is just not very good
- Has a steep learning curve

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Verfasst: 03.12.17 02:38

I remember playing this game like 10 years ago, it was colorful and funny as heck + it had great visuals for what it is.

IDK maybe i had not that much games to play, or i am just too old for that kind of games, but i dont feel it as enjoyable as it used to be. Maybe it's just no my cup of tea.

It's still a good game tho

+Cheap
+Steam achievements
+PvP and PvE
+Colorful arcade with physics involved.
-No cards

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Verfasst: 09.07.17 12:07

Very simple game. Seems to consist of mostly score attack, you control an orb that can move around a sqaure playing field, you can influence the colored dots that rotate around your orb but the control is impercise by design. Frankly I do not care for it but it could be a short diversion for the right person who wants a chill out zen type game to play in short bursts.

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Verfasst: 14.05.14 02:05

Swarm Arena is a great concept for a simple 1-on-1 battle arena game that is rather unique. You control a swarm of flying pixel thingies that when in range of your ship can be used defensively or offensively. Defense, forces the swarm to hold its position, providing you with some cover against incoming attacks, where Offensive has a number of modes (shoot, circle) used to push your swarm out to attack your opponent. The first person to hit the other ship wins.

The biggest issue I have is the lack of control you feel over your swarm. Despite any tactics you may try, such as seeing an opening to quickly attack your foe, your swarm doesn't move in to attack as you may expect making your chance to hit seem very random. Wrongly timed attacks can result in almost instant loss of your entire swarm leaving you very frustrated and likely to loose the round.

There are only a few different game modes to play, and with the age of this title now there is no-one playing online anymore. Unless you have friends who want to play you are stuck with the AI or score challenge modes. Talking AI, this has to be a strong point of the game. AI is tough (very tough!) and smart which is rare to find in a Triple-A title let alone a small indie game, but again due to the poor control system over your swarm this ultimately turns to frustration and not a legitimate challenge. This had great potential but simply doesn't pull it off!

This may keep you entertained for an hour or two, but would be unlikely to get much more out of it. I would only recommend grabbing this if you find it on a 75-90% off sale.

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Verfasst: 10.12.13 00:33

This game is absolutely fantastic. After a while of searching for a multiplayer, fast-paced action game for a great price I came to this gem. The gameplay is fast but responsive and skillful, there isn't a moment where you feel cheated by the controls. There's not a flaw in this game and you could easily kill hours playing this. Would recommend.

It's also a perfect price to gift a friend after you learn the skills then kick their butt.. until they get better than you xD

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Verfasst: 17.09.13 01:14

A nice arcade style game for casual players or hardcore ones. Basically, the tiny droids revolve around you that attack and protect you from opposing droids. A pretty good game that anyone can play and play against for a couple of bucks!

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Verfasst: 05.01.11 01:02

Action, reflex, tactics..

oh, nice color effects, also ;)

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Verfasst: 03.01.11 07:05

Do not be fooled by the steam store page, this game has fully implemented online play through the steam system. I bought it for it's gameplay, and still enjoy it for that and it's well done online laddering.

Not only are the controls solidly simple, but they also allow for quite a few physics based trickes to be pulled off. This results in gameplay that rarely gets dull and allows the player's playstyle to clearly show in multiplayer matches.

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