Swarmdustry

Swarmdustry is a factory-building strategy game in which you direct the growth of a living, adaptable Swarm. You hatch workers, harvest resources, move energy, automate production and expand an organic industrial colony across a procedurally generated map. Enemy factions challenge your expansion, so you must balance production and defense as you grow.

Grow the hive

You can mine and craft manually, then build networks of trails and transit pads to carry resources to processors with different functions. The hive depends on specialized workers: Movers, Miners, Fireflies, Santchers, Acflies, Jumpers and Drones. Each has a single purpose in keeping the Swarm running.

Some buildings need energy, while others require fuel such as coal or wood. Fireflies deliver energy through a spire network that you design, following the path of least resistance. At the Genetic Chamber, you unlock genetic codes that expand the hive’s industrial capacity and let you mutate workers into specialized types.

Drones can automate construction: you copy and paste building plans, and they place the structures for you.

Expand and defend

As your hive grows, its buildings generate creep that spreads across the map. A robotic civilization on the planet forms waves to attack your base. You can use Bloodflies and Feastlings to overwhelm enemies, while expanding your production and defenses to protect the hive.

Shape the map

Each map is an infinite, seed-based procedural generation. You can enable or disable enemies, trees and water, and adjust enemy difficulty and scaling, the safe starting area, the amount of trees and water, and the richness and frequency of resources.

Customize with mods

Integrated mod tools let you add, remove or change recipes, buildings, units and technology. You can also write basic or advanced scripts to run on top of the game’s code, upload mods to Steam Workshop from within the game, and play with mods offline.

Technical design

The core gameplay loop is multi-threaded. The game is designed to run on lower-end machines and scale with the number of CPU cores.