Temtem: Swarm Steam Charts & Stats

Really good, challeging rougelike swarmer. The grinding is also fun when you find the right tem that fits your playstile. Here is my best run I had with Innki: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwwUrx7O0xRM2Oo8ppH1K_8tuk3gXQyw/view?usp=sharing

This is a very chill nice to play Survivor game with good content. Still EA so much can change but there is enough to get a good idea. Nothing special, follows the game formula and does it well.

Terrible boring game gated by repetitive grind and rng that shamelessly copies and brings nothing new, the difficult in each stage is crazy while each character needs their own extremely expensive upgrades so you need to grind the same level over and over to progress. You like brain dead grinding then buy this terrible game!!!

good game fun to play but Lots of network lag in multiplayer every 5 run in co op 1 might work

Temtem Swarm distils the best bits of survivors-likes—hypnotic escalation, bite-sized runs, crunchy meta-progression—and spices them with creature-catcher charm. A few Early-Access rough edges remain, yet the core loop is already so moreish it’s hard to set the pad down. Rating: 8 / 10 I queue up my favourite Tem and the arena blooms into a kaleidoscope of projectiles—that’s Temtem Swarm in a nutshell: a monster-tamer’s day-dream grafted onto the “bullet-heaven” playbook. Think Vampire Survivors with extra personality: every run is a brisk power fantasy where you hoover up experience orbs, unlock ever-louder abilities, and watch the screen dissolve into elemental fireworks. Crema keeps the controls lean. Movement is WASD-smooth, abilities auto-fire, and cooldown ticks are short enough to encourage risk-reward weaving rather than corner-camping. Each Tem functions like a class: crystal casters, melee bruisers, rapid-fire wind types—pick the one whose kit sings to you, then nudge its branching skill tree mid-run for heftier crits or wider arcs. Stack a few gear drops and the synergies start to spiral in that delicious “just one more wave” way. Between runs you spend currency on permanent node unlocks, gradually turning former glass cannons into walking storms. Crucially, these meta-upgrades remain optional; a skilful fresh account can still clear maps, but veterans will appreciate the extra headroom for theory-crafting. Toss in online co-op for up to three friends and suddenly the buildcraft feels collaborative—combo your Tem’s wind cutter with a mate’s poison cloud and the numbers balloon satisfyingly. The art wears a Saturday-morning palette: chunky outlines, readable effects, and enough ooze to remind you these creatures bite. Performance is surprisingly robust—even Steam Decks hold steady at 60 fps barring the occasional late-wave hitch—and the soundtrack mixes bright synth hooks with the series’ trademark pan flutes, keeping the tempo jaunty rather than frantic. Swarm currently sits in Early Access, so content breadth is still growing: a handful of maps, boss types and Tem roster gaps hint at more to come. Ultra-wide UI scaling is jury-rigged for now, and balance patches occasionally turn favourite builds into yesterday’s news—but if you enjoy surf-riding the patch notes, that’s half the fun.

I don't know anything about this universe, but I like Bullet Hell games. I decided to buy it after the 0.7 and I'm not disappointed, don't trust the too negative reviews, I've rarely seen a game in EA so well polished. In addition, it runs perfectly on Steamdeck and the game is FUN. (I play solo )

Generally its an enjoyable game but the meta-progression is pretty make or break ; more concerning than that is the lack of variety within a tem/element. So for example ive used the thunder one a lot. All my runs have felt identical because theres only like 5-6 attacks I can pick (you use 4). And there's not much meat to the game in terms of gameplay variety/strategy. It's nice that it has coop but nothing really has hyped me about this game other than having a game to play with my partner. I worry the developers philosophy is always very biased towards grinding. While most games in this genre have meta progression I feel its mostly just been a bonus or to live out a power fantasy but here its kinda like you're genuinely locked from higher difficulties until you level. And since levels are character specific it kind of discourages changing your character too. Some visuals getting lost in all the sauce but the visual generally is the highlight.

The best bullet heaven game since Vampire Survivors! The new update adds tons of fun content. Definitely give it a try, even if you’ve never played Temtem.

this game is fun but it has so many bugs it becomes not fun to play. every patch has a different bug, this patch for example i cant see the time or my gear and Technic bar, so i play the whole game without knowing what are my tech or gear , last patch me or my friend stop gaining exp so one of us will be at level 10 the whole game, till they fix theses major bugs i dont recommend buying it

Devs are not doing a good job during the Early Access period despite having plenty of feedback. This review was written as of Patch 0.7. in Early Access. I've played many bullet Hell/Heaven & Roguelite/Roguelike games so I know what I'm talking about when it comes to this genre. The game has so much potential to be great but the constant horrible decisions by the Devs shows that they do not have experience in developing a game of this genre. So many good ideas and games to take inspiration from yet they simply fail to deliver or listen to feedback. Below will be a few of the major issues with the game: 1. Techs are unbalanced. Certain techs are simply so far better than others that if you get the synergy for them you basically automatically win the game and nothing else matters, this means that you just aim for that 1 broken tech from each element and ignore everything else. (E.g. Wave+; Wind Blade+; Tentacle Slash+) 2. Some techs are better when NOT upgraded. The synergy or "+" version of some techniques like for example (Water Blade+; Glass Blade+) are legit worse than the normal version, this is due to the fact that some techs are completely changed from that their base version does, they become something entirely different instead of expanding on the concept or the concept remains but certain quirks like number of projectiles do not scale anymore. When confronted with some techs not scaling with number of projectiles when upgraded the Devs simply said that it was "intended" and not a bug; good talk. [They have improved some of the underperforming + versions so hopefully they keep doing that and accepting feedback better] 3. Gears do not have that much impact and the game feels very similar between runs. There's basically nothing that really makes each run feel unique, the gears do not influence your techs that much as the % is usually very little even at max level and there's a plethora of gears that do not work on techniques making it very unsatisfaying when a gear doesn't impact a tech. 4. Similar to point number 3, there's a weird RNG system in the game that I can't even describe but if you look through the community posts or the Discord some people have reported the same issue. No matter the amount of rerolls, some gears would simply just not appear during a run, it's almost as if when you start a run there's a certain amount of things that you can encounter and rerolling would never give you different stuff. 5. On top of point 4; we simply do not have enough rerolls or blocks in the game; it's very hard to make a specific build you want. 6. Tem balance is ridiculous. Some tems have access to Projectile Amount on the Skill Tree (MASSIVE POWER SPIKE for each point) or higher Damage% for their Techs compared to other Tems. Some of them have higher pick-up range/luck/EXP gain upgrades compared to others. Some have higher BLOCKS AND REROLLS??? There's just no design philosophy or anything that could possibly explain why some Tems have more rerolls and blocks than others, it's just a completely arbritrary skill tree that doesn't make any sense and simply makes some Tem much stronger or weaker than others. 7. Insane grind needed to upgrade each Tem. Because they don't have universal trees whatsoever and the prices are ridiculous you have to do an insane amount of runs just to get a few upgrades on each Tem, multiply that by the number of Tems available and it's just laughable how much they disrespect your time. They simply do not give you enough currency for all the things they want you to upgrade in order to progress normally. 8. Certain bosses are completely unbalanced. I'm mostly bringing up the Dash/Rush attacks that some Bosses will do where they will run at you and if you don't have enough Speed you simply CANNOT run away from them and you'll stay taking damage for 10s straight until you die. You're basically stunlocked until you die because they are faster than you and even if you use your Dash correctly there's situations where they will just outspeed you no matter what you do and you will die. When provided with feedback regarding these type of Bosses & attacks the Devs simply said "looks like you can still become more powerful or increase your skill tree further", no Speed% was available on the skill tree. It was simply not playtested that a Boss can stay on top of you for 10s straight doing infinite damage, how is that any fun. 9. They introduced a Hacking system that basically acts as modifiers to make your runs harder. The problem is that not only do you need to beat the final boss of each stage in 40s in order to unlock it for that specific stage but when you do unlock it you have to beat the same stage multiple times in order to gain rewards from further increasing the hacking level. What I mean by this is that you get 1.2x multiplier on your currency but even if you add more modifiers you won't be able to gain 1.4x/1.6x/1.8x until you beat the stage multiple times over and over each time increase the hacking level further. It's honestly just a joke that you can't skip straight into the difficulty you want and gain the rewards, why do I have to do the stage so many times. Simply mocking player's time. 10. They tried to introduce an Endless mode and when you enter Endless for the first time you are greeted with a TREMENDOUS POWER SPIKE of +300% MOB HP +30% MOB DMG +15% ENEMY SPEED +20% BOSS ATTACK SPEED; and this DOUBLES every 10 minutes. Instead of having a harsh scaling method and increasing the scaling say for example every 1 minute, they simply put crazy roadblockers at each 10 minute mark which completely defeats the purpose of endless, I honestly don't even know what to say. I'm just confused if the Devs have ever played any game on this genre and where they're taking these ideas from. TLDR; Devs had the chance to apply a lot of feedback that has been provided during the EA and have not been doing a good job, some of the decisions have been atrocious and stuff that has been requested since the very first day such as universal skill trees and others have never been added. It's a chill game and it has some positives but the lack of direction is so infuriating that I can't support it any longer.