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Star Swarm Stress Test
Welcome to the newest frontier in gaming: battles and scenes at the scale of armies and fleets, all active at once with no trickery around loading screens or off-screen abstractions. Star Swarm is a real-time demo of Oxide Games’ Nitrous engine, which pits two AI-controlled fleets against each other
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Handy CPU stress test tool.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 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.
Star Swarm June 2014 Update
Oxide Games has released a new update for their Star Swarm stress test today on Steam. Changes include: Fixed full screen mantle mode. Before it was actually a full screen window, now it gets exclusiv
Star Swarm June 2014 Update
Oxide Games has released a new update for their Star Swarm stress test today on Steam. Changes include: Fixed full screen mantle mode. Before it was actually a full screen window, now it gets exclusiv
New Star Swarm Update Released
Oxide Games has released a new update for the Star Swarm Stress Test today. This latest version addresses the following: Fixes a bug which prevented those with less than a quad-core CPU to run the app
New Star Swarm Update Released
Oxide Games has released a new update for the Star Swarm Stress Test today. This latest version addresses the following: Fixes a bug which prevented those with less than a quad-core CPU to run the app
Star Swarm Updated
Oxide Games has released a new update for Star Swarm this morning. This latest update fixes a Nitrous bug which should improve Mantle performance and also adds a new Sandbox mode option. For full deta
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Utilities |
| Player tags | Utilities · Benchmark (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player |
| Languages | English |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.oxidegames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 64-bit / Windows 8 64-bit Processor: Quad-Core Processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1 GB VRAM (Dedicated) DirectX 11 Compatible Video Card DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space Additional Notes: Mantle Benchmark requires an AMD Radeon 7x00 Series Video Card or Better and the AMD Mantle drivers.