# SWARMELT — Melt the swarm.

> Melt the swarm. (iPhone/iPad app by Takahiro Oda.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/swarmelt/id6801573704 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Takahiro Oda](https://appshunter.io/developer/1843653292)
- Category: Games, Action, Casual
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 45 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-02
- Data updated: 2026-09-28
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/swarmelt/id6801573704/reviews.md

## What is SWARMELT?

Melt the swarm.

A top-down roguelite where you never stop shooting.

There is no fire button. Your weapons fire on their own, always. Your finger only moves you, so wherever you touch becomes the stick.

And standing still makes you stronger. Hold for a quarter of a second and you are "braced": double power, 1.6x fire rate. Run, or hold your ground. With 40 to 80 enemies closing in at once, that is the only decision you make.

- 100 weapons, 100 skills, 100 pieces of gear. Pick one of three at every level
- Up to five weapons at once, each firing independently
- 100 enemies, 10 bosses
- The map changes every run. Arenas, corridors and mazes, in a different order each time
- 10 characters, unlocked through draws
- No continues. The only question is how deep you get

Kill eight at once and time stops. The kill sound climbs the more you take down. This game was built around one feeling: melting a swarm.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.9.0 — 2026-09-25

Upgrades now branch by weapon type.

- At your 3rd and 6th upgrade, a weapon gains something only its type gets. Straight shots gain pierce, explosives a wider blast, beams more width and length — seven types, each with its own two steps.
- The upgrade card tells you what the next one will open.
- Nova Core now fires from its orbiters. Twenty shots with four of them. It only becomes strong once you have orbiters.
- A character's level cap, and the materials needed to lift it, are now visible before you reach the cap.
- Smoother when the screen is full of enemies.

Also in 1.8.0:

- Handicaps. Start a run with one of five: three weapons only, no standing still, and more. Handicaps pay out more Cores.
- This week's map. For the whole week, everyone plays the same map with the same card order.
- Bosses change their bullet pattern below half health. All ten of them.

### 1.8.0 — 2026-09-25

Several weapons look and play differently.

- Inferno is now a flamethrower. The spreading flame shows where it sets enemies on fire.
- Redrew the flamethrower flames.
- Tesla Coil and Flame Vent now come from you instead of being placed, with a wider reach.
- Flame Vent gains more flames, reach and burn time as it levels up.
- Ghost Copy's double now fires all of your weapons at full power.
- Boss attacks now telegraph their shape.
- Mazes now exit in any of the four directions.
- Enemy damage grows more slowly.

### 1.7.0 — 2026-09-17

Several weapons look and play differently.

- Inferno is now a flamethrower. The spreading flame shows where it sets enemies on fire.
- Redrew the flamethrower flames.
- Tesla Coil and Flame Vent now come from you instead of being placed, with a wider reach.
- Flame Vent gains more flames, reach and burn time as it levels up.
- Ghost Copy's double now fires all of your weapons at full power.
- Boss attacks now telegraph their shape.
- Mazes now exit in any of the four directions.
- Enemy damage grows more slowly.

### 1.6.0 — 2026-09-16

Bug fixes and a lighter frame.

- Portrait only.
- Lightning weapons now actually look like lightning.
- Weapons now have their own sounds (thunder, fire, ice, poison, explosions, beams and more).
- The level gauge now fills before every level-up, including ones from time and bonuses.
- Burn Ray and Flame Vent now show actual flames.
- The music switches back to the home theme when a run ends.
- Sub abilities on weapons and gear are easier to read.
- Explosion damage now gets power multipliers and lifesteal like everything else.
- Auto-aim no longer targets enemies that cannot be destroyed.
- Fixed the Boss Rush banner being overwritten by "WAVE".
- Fixed maze walls lingering into Boss Rush after dying in a maze.
- Fixed orbiters remaining after a boss was defeated.
- Fixed the firing sound playing without a shot.
- Fixed "Upgrade" not raising orbiter power.
- Gear comparisons now show every stat a piece touches (boss damage, invuln time and more).
- Fixed card offers being judged with gear bonuses included.
- Weekly quests now roll over at midnight Monday in your local time.
- Fixed second-loop mazes not being mazes.
- Fixed boss 10's HP bar jumping partway through.
- Fixed the draw screen stretching across the whole width on iPad.

### 1.5.0 — 2026-09-14

Weapons and gear now level up.

- Pulling a weapon or gear you already own raises its level (up to Lv.5). From Lv.2 it unlocks sub abilities one at a time. A weapon's subs apply to that weapon only.
- Two new draw tiers, Premium and Supreme. Higher tiers drop legendary gear more often. The pity counter is shared.
- Runs and Boss Rush now pay out more cores.
- More kinds of quests. Dailies and weeklies are all shown at once, and completing a number of them pays a bonus.
- Fixed enemies walking through maze walls.
- Fixed "Again" carrying the previous run's kills into the next one.
- Fixed weapon evolutions vanishing on the next card. Picked cards now carry across stages too.
- Fixed damage numbers drawing off to the side.
- Now playable in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. The game follows your device language.

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All apps by Takahiro Oda: https://appshunter.io/developer/1843653292

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