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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!

Release DateOct 20, 2020
Price$ 24.99  Top 5%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)64.4% (mixed) Bottom 25% / 65.2%  Bottom 30%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)61.6% Bottom 35% / 62.4%  Bottom 35%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)222  Top 30% / 276  Top 25%
Curators40 reviews  Top 15%
Median Play Time6.2 hours  Top 25%
Play Time per Dollar15 minutes  Bottom 30%
Followers5.6K  Top 15%
Owners± 22.2K 
Copies Sold± 13.3K  Top 25%
Gross Revenue ($)± 295.1K  Top 15%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Drone Swarm steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Drone Swarm's Steam rating and reviews between October 2020 and December 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 71.2% (October 2020) to 65% (November 2023).

With its 276 reviews Top 25%, Drone Swarm could be considered a decent success for an indie game. The chart suggests a long tail distribution, which could mean that the game was promoted at laucnch but that there were no more marketing, update or major discounts after that point.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Drone Swarm and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut chart shows Drone Swarm's review languages. The most popular language is English (56%), followed by German (18%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 17 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game is available in 13 languages, which is great.

Time Played

Chart displaying Drone Swarm percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in Drone Swarm depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time in game is acceptable, with 10 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 3 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. When the negative review time is low (median : 145 minutes), it can be a sign that the game crashes on some systems or that players misunderstood the nature of the game (Does the Steam page clearly explain it, with gifs and a gameplay video ?). It can also mean that some players were somehow offended by Drone Swarm and decided to review it and get a refund under 2 hours. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • innovative gameplay
  • fast-paced
  • unique pseudo-RTS
  • neat tricks with the swarm
  • wide range of abilities
  • interesting enemy design
  • nice graphics
  • impressive technology
  • good music and sound
  • beautiful backgrounds
  • poorly designed combat
  • bad key settings on PC
  • enemies move too fast
  • poor level design and game mechanics
  • weak story
  • predictable and exaggerated
  • bugs
  • zero strategy and re-playability
  • overpriced
  • weird animation

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's rating of 64.4%  Bottom 25% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of Drone Swarm's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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