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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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“It's by no means a perfect game, but I had fun for 7.5h. You can easily play the game for 15 minutes a day, because a single mission does not take more than 5-10 minutes. Then you get a little bit of story, some upgrades for your ship and the drones that you command. So you…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“it is good”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Game is not yet stable. It's a fun concept; the controls aren't bad, but it's not worth replaying a mission because it crashed at the end.”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Security Patch now available for download
Dear Captain, We’ve just released a small new patch that addresses a potential security vulnerability originating from Unity. Patch Notes: Fixed a potential security vulnerability originating from a t
Update 1.3.0 now available for download
Dear Captain, Our latest update is now live! We've greatly improved the early game, enhanced the overall experience through some handy quality-of-life changes and added some new stuff to encounter. Th
Update 1.2.2 now available for download
Dear Captain, We have just released a small update The update 1.2.2 includes the following fix: Fixed performance issues related to the new video player Your Drone Swarm Crew
Update 1.2.0 now available for download
Dear Captain, We have just released the update 1.2.0! The update includes the following changes: Improvements Increased strength of Asteroid pushback on warp in Ship names are now displayed above thei
Update 1.1.0 now available for download
Dear Captain, We have just released the update 1.1.0! We worked on fixing many issues. Next to it we also add an unique Halloween mode. See all changelogs in detail here: - physical swarm abilities ba
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Sci-fi · Action · Real Time Tactics · Combat · Physics · Indie · Singleplayer · Tactical · Strategy · RTS · Space · Fast-Paced (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , German * , French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Korean, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 34 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://droneswarmgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
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