Temtem Swarm has officially left early access. Crema Games launched version 1.0 on April 2, bringing the multiplayer bullet heaven to PS5 and Steam Deck alongside the existing PC release, with full cross-platform play connecting all versions. After selling 100,000 copies during early access as of 2025, the game now enters its full release window with a cleaner feature set and a broader platform footprint.
Temtem Swarm 1.0 launch screen
What platforms does Temtem Swarm 1.0 support?
Temtem Swarm is now available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Steam Deck. All three versions support cross-platform multiplayer, so squads can mix players across platforms without restriction. According to the official launch announcement, a Nintendo Switch version is also in development, though Crema Games has not confirmed a release window for it.
This is a meaningful expansion from the early access period, which was PC-only. The PS5 version marks the game's first console appearance, and Steam Deck support gives portable PC players a fully supported experience rather than relying on compatibility mode.
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Cross-platform play is enabled by default across all available versions. You can squad up with PS5 players directly from Steam without any workaround.
What changed from early access to 1.0?
The Temtem Swarm 1.0 patch notes cover a significant volume of additions, balance changes, and fixes. Crema described the notes as a "long read," which is accurate. The patch addresses known community concerns, including feedback around level-up reward bloat. According to community discussion on the Steam Community hub for Temtem Swarm, players had flagged that the pool of techniques (attacks) and gears (passives) offered during level-up was too diluted, making it harder to build toward a specific loadout.
The 1.0 update targets that problem directly alongside its broader content additions.
Level-up reward selection menu
Understanding techniques and gears
In Temtem Swarm, your build is shaped by two primary upgrade types:
- Techniques are active attacks that fire automatically based on your equipped loadout.
- Gears are passive modifiers that alter how your techniques behave or boost your stats.
Both are offered as choices during level-up, and the ratio of useful options to filler directly affects how quickly you can form a working build. The community concern documented in Steam discussions was that too many irrelevant options were appearing, slowing down build formation in longer runs.
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Focus your early level-up picks on techniques that complement each other's damage types. Picking gears before you have two or three techniques locked in often leads to wasted passive slots.
Technique and gear build layout
What is Temtem Swarm, and how does it connect to the main game?
Temtem Swarm is a multiplayer bullet heaven built around the creatures from Crema Games' original title, Temtem. The two games are separate products but share a franchise bundle on Steam, where buying both together saves 10%. Temtem itself is a creature-collection RPG with turn-based combat, 165 tameable creatures, and a persistent online world across six islands. Swarm takes those creatures and drops them into a survival roguelite format where you survive waves of enemies, collect upgrade drops, and build increasingly powerful attack combinations.
The relationship between the two games carries some context worth knowing. Crema's original Temtem MMORPG entered maintenance mode in 2024 after the studio described it as no longer commercially viable, per reporting by Massively Overpowered. Swarm was announced during that period and received backlash from players who felt it was a pivot away from the MMO. Crema maintained at the time that the MMO would continue receiving updates, but that did not hold. That history doesn't affect how Swarm plays, but it does explain why some of the player base arrived with mixed feelings.
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If you're buying Temtem expecting active MMO development, note that it entered maintenance mode in 2024. The game is still playable, but no new content updates are planned. Swarm is where active development is happening.
Co-op squad setup in Swarm
Is Temtem Swarm worth playing at 1.0 launch?
The honest answer depends on what you want from the genre. Temtem Swarm sits in a crowded bullet heaven market that includes Vampire Survivors and its many successors. What it offers that most don't is native co-op multiplayer with cross-platform support, which is genuinely rare in the genre. Running a build alongside friends in real time changes the feel of the game substantially compared to solo play.
The early access period gave Crema time to address structural issues, and the 1.0 patch specifically targets the reward bloat problem that was the most consistent community complaint. Whether the full release resolves it satisfactorily is something that will become clearer as players work through more runs post-launch.
Steam concurrency during early access was notably low despite the 100,000 copies sold figure, which suggests retention was a challenge. The 1.0 launch on PS5 and Steam Deck could shift that by bringing in players who prefer controller-based or couch co-op setups, where the game's format fits more naturally.
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