How to play Here Comes the Swarm & Win in this wave survival real time strategy game in 2026

Описание: Here Comes the Swarm is a new wave survival RTS going into Early Access on Steam on the 5th of March and this is a beginners guide which will teach you how to collect resources like wood, blood rubies, gas and stone as well as how to construct your base, and its defenses, research tech, unlock and upgrade units, defeat swarm waves or bases, gain arcana points and unlock new essences for your chosen deity in the game’s arcanum. There are skirmish, endless and expedition games modes which I explain and I want to thank developers at CableHook Games for sponsoring this video.

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Chapters
0:00 Here Comes the Swarm Release!
0:34 Gameplay on a razor’s edge
1:16 Roadmap?
1:48 Game modes, Boss & Pause
2:23 Meta progression
3:03 Expeditions & Bonuses
3:40 Choices & Rewards
4:25 Endless mode & Essences
5:42 Resource collection
6:39 Population & Homes
7:02 Special items & Looting
7:30 Beginners mistakes
7:50 Tanking damage & Unit buffs
8:02 Unit Recruitment & UI
8:32 Population happiness & needs
8:56 Extending building range
9:17 Tech research
9:37 Blood rubies & Homes
10:03 Arcana points & Automatic upgrades
10:39 Enemy spawn points
11:00 Clearing Shrines
11:24 Research balancing issues
11:50 Multiple recruitment queues
12:09 The Swarm waves & Defenses
12:50 Taunting enemies
13:24 Enemy scaling & Tech Tier 2
14:02 Core charge & End game
14:24 Stone & Quarries
14:47 Tavern & Tier 2 Homes
15:04 Science Lab & Tier 2 Research
15:15 Blacksmith & Tier 2 Unit upgrades
15:30 Conclusion

Here Comes the Swarm is one of the best designed and produced indie RTS games which I have played in a while, and with its Early Access release on the 5th of March I have prepared a how to play beginners guide for you all. I will explain resource collection, population, base building, turret and wall defenses, research including the arcanum and essences, unit types, their veterancy status, upgrades and most importantly combat and swarm mechanics.

Now, as I mentioned the game does have a tutorial so you may want to go through that before choosing to go into the skirmish, endless or expeditions game modes. Each is played the same but each ends differently. Skirmish is probably your best choice after the tutorial as you can control most of the game’s potential states like having a boss on the map or the ability to use active pause, besides the map size, difficulty level, and amount of enemy waves you can expect before the end game. But once you survive those final waves, its game over, you collect your reward and possibly enough fragments to unlock sockets on your chosen deity in the arcanum.

The very first thing I suggest doing in a new run is pausing the game and looking over your surroundings to see where you can place lumberjacks and gas extractors as wood and gas are your base resources besides blood rubies. The UI on the lumberjacks building will show you how much wood income you will get depending on the placement of it and of course you need a road connecting it to your core for it to become operational and for workers from your population to get into it.

Because you get a fixed starting population you must take care not to overbuild resource collecting buildings at the start of a run, because all of those resource collection buildings require workers to operate. Once you have done the same with gas extractors which can only be placed on gas vents you will want to send out your units to the edges of the fog of war just in case enemies are right there as they will immediately attack your buildings under construction and wreck them.

The Butcher buildings generate food for your population but aren’t allowed to overlap production ranges which is functionally a game mechanic to cap your potential maximum population. And to have a larger population you must place dwellings. These can level up and provide more housing but only if they have a church in range and later at tech level two a tavern.

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