Deep Among the Swarm

Pebble Mountain Games / Sep 25, 2024 / Strategy

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Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?

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What's new

Patch 1.1.32

2025-05-16

Patch 1.1.32 * Fixed text issues on negative map modifiers. * Added rarity labels for equipment comparisons/crafting. * When salvaging buildings the cursor will snap to grid. * If all sides of a replicator are blocked, units will spawn in the nearest open tile. * Fixed bug where on the crafting screen if you had an equipment selected, and then pressed craft the comparison would still appear. * Fixed bug where the area beside the "Start Engine" would block cursor interactions. * When maps fail to generate because they can't place resources, make the map larger as well, * Make the validation check faster when determining whether or not a map is valid. * The Massive Reinforcements modifier label now properly says 5 minutes (instead of 10). * Fix bug where the last slot of your drill modules were not being properly saved when you were in T3.

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What players say

Very Positive

87% positive, 128 reviews

Not recommended4 hrs played

Just didn't grab me, it has serious problems with the execution. Resources fill so fast that it feels like you need to constantly be pausing to queue research / energy spreaders which is just annoying. There's almost zero depth in the resource economy. Aside from the body factories, you just build mines/energy plants on their respective tiles and move on. It suffers from the roguelite curse where it takes 30-60...

0 found this helpful, 2026-06-11

Recommended11 hrs played

It has that nice meta progression feel for a quick RTS where you're mostly just positioning troops to defend or purge an area. Good value for the price. Wouldn't mind more depth to the meta progression and structures though, but overall great value and gameplay.

0 found this helpful, 2026-03-23

Recommended61 hrs played

Great game, beat in about 17 hours all told, but allows for challenge mode to continue the grind. I died twice during my win (dying = use meta resources to buff, then begin again). This scratches the itch of a slow expansion where you have to snuff out enemy spawners, and secure areas. Its similar to they are billions, except you can actually seal off the spawning locations to the point they are no longer a...

0 found this helpful, 2026-02-04