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Onslaught Has Arrived: Build Your Loadout. Chase the Board. Think Nova Swarm is too easy? This is the mode built to answer that. Onslaught is the evolution of the former Overrun mode, rebuilt around one idea: skip the warm-up and get straight to the pressure. Choose your ship, ch
Small Quality-of-Life Update Steam Overlay, screenshots and recording now work in Windowed, Borderless and Fullscreen, with improved Borderless behavior and Alt+Tab recovery. Added a Gameplay Background setting with Modern planets and the original Legacy cabinet backdrop. Menu Au
Performance Optimization Improved frame pacing during dense combat. Reduced brief stutters when many enemies, projectiles, and hit effects are active. Optimized combat effects while preserving their visual intensity.
Small reliability and clarity update Steam leaderboard submissions now stay pending and retry until Steam confirms them. Improved save-failure and graphics recovery, with clearer on-screen guidance when recovery is possible. Fixed rare extra-life pickups being awarded more than o
Nova Swarm has been sitting at 9 Steam reviews for quite a while 😅 That means we are now just one eligible review away from Steam displaying an official review score on the store page. If you bought Nova Swarm on Steam and have played enough to form an opinion, I would genuinely
Retuned Space Snake and double-boss fights: clearer attack openings, faster snake fire, and more frequent, tougher, more aggressive babies. Bombs now use Special Fire, including right-click or a deliberate left-button double-tap, instead of ordinary firing. Play remembers your la
New threats, stranger encounters and more surprises waiting deeper in the swarm. New enemies to discover Meet the Veilborn: New mysterious enemies with distinct attacks, movement, sounds and arrival announcements. They join ordinary waves and can fight alongside a boss or Space S
Something much bigger is moving through the swarm. This update introduces Space Snakes, rare bonus cores, new bounty drones and a rebuilt player fleet, alongside more rewarding active combat and a livelier orbital hangar. Meet the Space Snakes Fourteen species. Connected armoured
Boss fights have a new look and a more distinct rhythm, with clearer warnings and more varied enemy arrivals. Boss overhaul: Ten redesigned boss families with detailed ships, animated weapons, distinct attack sequences and new charging sounds. Bosses also have more varied movemen
Nova Swarm has had a serious overhaul. I've rebuilt the fleet and the worlds you fight above, made destruction more satisfying, and worked on the opening minutes and performance. I'm proud of how far it's come, and your feedback helped get it here. Watch the new gameplay trailer
Powerup clarity update The newer powerup roster has received a full visual pass. Each icon now has its own silhouette, central symbol, and mechanic-specific visual language—so you can tell what you’re grabbing at a glance, even in a crowded wave. Highlights 20 newer powerups now
Cabinet Wonders now have a much better framed presentation and linger longer during the natural break between waves—without pausing or freezing the game. The previous wonder presentation were oversized, ugly and paused the game unintentionally. Input, projectiles, timers, and wav
Hi pilots, This minor update adds a permanent long-term climb and continues the work on making Nova Swarm easier to understand without lowering the pressure. Endless Career Rank Career Rank no longer stops at Rank 40. Earned XP can now keep raising it indefinitely. Rank 40 remain
Menus and onboarding Rebuilt the main menu around a large, focused START PLAYING action, with a clear first-run cue that guides new pilots straight into Mayhem Tactical. Removed the permanent Pilot Orders board from the main menu. Orders now live in the Hangar archive and appear
A small follow-up patch is now live. What Changed Boss fights now act as clean combo boundaries. Your combo ends when a boss encounter begins, boss hits no longer keep the timer alive, and combos built from support ships do not carry out of the fight. Compatible timed powerups ca
Combat clarity Final deaths now show the impact and fatal cause clearly, clear lingering hazards, and transition into Game Over without the red vignette seam or secondary combat messages covering the moment. Game Over, results, and leaderboard transitions now stay composed while
Nova Swarm has changed dramatically since its June 9 launch. The game is still built around fast restarts, learnable boss patterns, bullet-heavy combat and the pull of one cleaner run. But the current version offers much more to master: run-long Tactical builds, a pure score-atta
Keyboard controls Added keyboard remapping for movement, focus, shooting, dodge or phase, and pause. Shift can now be rebound directly. Custom bindings persist with your settings, while Reset Keyboard restores the defaults. Fixed overlapping controls and buttons in the Settings r
Nova Swarm has received a major combat-readability, ship-identity, build-quality, and presentation update. The goal is still the same: keep the swarm fast, dangerous, and spectacular—but make sure the warnings tell the truth, controls remain responsive, rewards arrive safely, and
Sixty Cabinet Wonders The Cabinet has found fifty more things it probably should have left alone. Added 50 new Cabinet Wonders, bringing the total collection to 60. Wonders can now appear at safe transitions every third sector. Recently seen Wonders stay out of rotation, keeping