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Swarmriders

Swarmriders is a free "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" arcade mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing mini-game" made as a bonus content for the Ubermosh community.

15 June 2016

Swarmriders is an arcade developed by Walter Machado, released 15 June 2016 on Nintendo Switch, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Swarmriders is

Swarmriders is an arcade game developed by Walter Machado and released in 2016. It was published by QUByte Interactive. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Swarmriders is a free "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" arcade mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing mini-game" made as a bonus content for the Ubermosh community.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Swarmriders launched on 15 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Inside, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Inside, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine.

Official trailer

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When did Swarmriders come out?
Swarmriders was released on 15 June 2016 for Nintendo Switch, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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