This game is rated ESRB: Teen for Animated Blood and Cartoon Violence.
Swarm is a 2011 action-platformer released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in which the player simultaneously controls a swarm of fifty small blue creatures through a series of hazard-filled obstacle courses. Rather than protecting the group, the game encourages reckless sacrifice, sending the creatures into traps, environmental dangers, and deadly mechanisms as a matter of course. Success depends on managing the collective mass strategically — routing them around or deliberately through destruction to meet level objectives. The tone is darkly comic, treating the expendable swarm as both the primary tool and the casualty of its own progress. The mechanics blend platforming traversal with light puzzle-solving and tactical decision-making, as players must balance attrition against keeping enough creatures alive to continue. The result is a genre hybrid that treats mass expendability as its central design conceit.
