Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 03:16 pm
Swarm Simulator: Evolution – Simulation Game Review
Swarm Simulator: Evolution is a Simulation game from Iron Horse Games LLC, first launched in 27th March 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,695+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Swarm Simulator: Evolution Stand Out
Over 2 MILLION PLAYERS!
Swarm Simulator: Evolution brings the strategic, incremental, idle, clicker gameplay of the wildly successful web game into a new 3D world with dozens of new systems and extra features!
Evolve your way from lowly larvae and drones to all-powerful hive Overminds and beyond in this idle masterpiece! Conquer territory with fearsome Stingers and Locusts to become a tycoon of unit production. Sacrifice smaller units for the greater good of the colony and Ascend over and over as you build your Swarm toward its ultimate goal of universe spanning conquest!
== Swarm Simulator Features ==
Idle Clicker Gameplay
• Endless progression – start with a few lowly units, evolve and hatch your way to unimaginable numbers.
• Idle mode – the game will keep progressing whether it's open or not, take a break for a few hours and your Swarm will grow and grow!
• Ascend your Swarm to start over on a new world but with powerful new Mutations.
Evolution Upgrades
• All new 3D graphics and new units, dozens of 3D bugs in a fully 3D world.
• Elixirs give short term buffs to your Swarm, use a Rage elixir to capture more territory … or a Warper elixir to speed up time itself!
• Golden Bugs can be captured to give long-term bonuses to your Swarm.
• Swarm Lord Invasions, the HFL, Carapace Shards, unlockable skins for your bugs and more!
The classic text-based incremental game has been reborn in vibrant 3D. Download Swarm Simulator now and conquer EVERYTHING!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Swarm Simulator: Evolution is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th January 2024
Recent improvements include:
- Fix for Shop not working.
- New Ads SDK implemented.
Download & Availability
Swarm Simulator: Evolution is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Swarm Simulator: Evolution on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
None of the creatures sprites are shown anymore, just the background. All of the prices are stuck at 5411 larvae and 1 meat. Buying new creatures still work, but none of there stats are shown when the info button is pressed. We really love this game, but these problems are extremely frustrating! Please fix this.
A longtime favorite of ours…until this latest update broke the game. It will no longer advance past the loading screen when opened. We were approaching endgame, closing in on the first of the final unit and we certainly wont start over. Low rating for the game breaking and also because the App Support leads to an empty website with nothing but a crappy logo and links that lead nowhere.
The game is completely broken. Ive played a few minutes of the Steam version, so we know how the game is supposed to function when working correctly. Every creature and upgrade in the game, no matter what it is, is displayed as costing 5611 larvae and one drone. The upgrade button still works, but its kinda hard to play when you dont know what anything costs. The game says we should be gaining one larvae per second, when Im actually gaining hundreds, but only when we have larvae selected. Otherwise, the larvae count remains frozen. Im pretty sure this isnt right. Attempting to select the territory, energy, or any tab we havent unlocked yet will display a full-screen message telling you what you need to unlock it. The problem is, we cant seem to close this screen, effectively locking us out of the game until we restart the app. None of the visual creatures are displayed, Im stuck looking at meat the whole time. Achievements seem to be non-functional we dont know if a recent update broke everything or something, but the game is completely unplayable for us.
This seems like an interesting game but the UI dosent respond to anything. We reinstalled and still nothing.
We just thought itd be cute if you had the night bugs swarming around the nexus the more you hatched them.
This game is amazing,now Im not going to make a story. Ive been waiting for this to come on iPhone when our other broke. So thank you,for making bugs better.
The game is super fun but in a day or so when we got back from idling theres this pop up about like the golden bugs that wont go away no matter how much we refresh the game. Now Im thinking to delete and reinstall the game but does this Dereks our progress.
Ive ascended a bunch of times now, Im using our bonuses to gain more mutation, but every time Im ready for another ascension its nowhere near enough mutation. Even if we get enough to activate another power, whats the point? There is almost no end game. Ive been playing forever and it seems like a waste to just delete the app.
Use to love it. Came back to play it again and now its garbage. So many changes and now its like you have to pay to play to even progress just a little.
Soo uhh you probably wont be reading this, but im experiencing a weird bug where if we watch a ad for to activate war cry, the game still continues even if the ad is currently playing, could you fix it.
Our only complaint is when activating the war call after watching an ad the game plays in the background and makes it counter intuitive due to the things spawning and not being able to get to them.
After watching the Ad to start the war cry you will be unable to close the ads fast enough before your entire war cry is wasted. Needs a timer after the ad or allow the player to start the attack.
So apparently this game is kinda gross but fun no 5 star but Ill give 4 stars.
Most recent update turned the game into a stuttery mess.
We truly love this game. Been playing for awhile now and wondering if theres any options outside of the basic settings to alleviate battery drain. For a fairly simple click and numbers app game its mad draining.
The triple loot ad watch on the scarabs is not working lol.
This mobile version has a bad UI, p2w inserted in, and alot of features butchered. Just play it on kongregate.
It's unfortunate that this game hasn't received updates for a couple years as of this writing, but it's still a solid idle game. We enjoy the carapace shards mechanic and invasions, compared to the web version. Overall just a well-rounded game. Would be nice if it had some updates to add more content though.
This is not a bot. This is a fantastic game and we like it very much.
Here are some reasons why: 1. No ads everywhere unless you want a reward you have the option to watch an ad. 2. The game is surprisingly addictive, and entertaining. 3. YOU WILL WANT TO UNLOCK THE SWARM LORD CHALLENGES THEY ARE FUN 4. Once you restart, dont think itll take a while to regain your bugs. 5. Its free 6. Just give it a try :).
This game is amazing we have never played anything like it before and we love discovering new bugs especially the neroprophet this game is amazing we just wish there are more swarm lords besides that its awesome we hope anyone that sees this gets the game to.
When we saw this game we were like OK but when we learned that we cant see what our animals are doing or things we were a little mad but its a great game.
The only thing we would ask to add is something to view who has the most of any creature.
This game has amazing graphics and we have barely even played but this game has amazing gui and the system isnt too complicated.
While the game is a bit repetitive at times, it is still extremely entertaining. We have been playing off and on for a bit over a year (we think) and it really is a fantastic game. It doesnt reach for your wallet like most of the newer games, and while we did spend some money on it (for things like double carapace shards) those purchases are definitely not required to enjoy the game. Our only complaint is that for some of the meat producing units, setting a custom amount to hatch will also set the number of twin upgrades and faster upgrades to the same number, so we have to go back through and change those values back to 100%. Specifically we noticed this with hive neurons and neural clusters. Other than this little glitch, the game is fantastic.
Swarm Simulator: Evolution is hands down, the most played game on our phone. The gameplay is easy to pick up on and grows more difficult as you progress. From its tasteful design to its never ending achievements, we always feel like we need to play and that Im enjoying it. From the moment you wake up in the morning to the time youre in bed, you will have this game open throughout your day. Im currently in the top 1% of players across all four leaderboards, and still have work to do! So, let us get back to it. Take it from a PC gamer, we highly recommend Swarm Simulator: Evolution for any age.
This game is the best game ever! All Ill do is play this game (Swarm Simulator). Almost instantly we got addicted to this game. Thx, owner(s).
This game is such a perfect masterpiece! There is so much to do in this infinite game! We have never been disappointed by this game and we hope that continues! 9.5/10. The only flaw is that there hasnt been an update in forever so it starts getting a little repetitive but thats it.
Our new favorite idle exponential crafting game. Highly recommend. Very addictive.
It very hard for us to find good games on the phone and when we found this game it made us play it more then our pc it our favorite game on the phone bye far.
We really like this game because we like to play a lot of idle clickers/simulators. We like this game because it is so complex that you can play play it for hours. But however its not so complex that you have to look up guides for it. It is also not so simple that you can just beat it right away. We have already been playing this game for a minute and we are already in love with it.
We've been playing this every day for over a month now and we still haven't gotten all the achievements. Very minimal ads, unless you want bonuses, which we ended up buying the Supporter Pack for after a couple of weeks so we didn't have to deal with it anymore. Best clicker game.
Im not the long, rambling review type, but its fun to play and looks nice.
This is a really great game we love how easy it is to play, plus it is really fun. We would recommend this game to literally anyone. We love the geometric designs of the characters and the surrounding environment. We are pretty discriminating when it comes to ratings as well, and this app defiantly has our approval.
This game is really fun because it has gold bugs that give you gold to upgrade (in our opinion super upgrade). Whenever you thing you almost finished everting you have it gives you more to upgrade. Everything in the game has a use in it. Also the game is VeRy TiMe CoNsUmInG. Ive been playing this game for HoUrS and we think you might to. To Creators: we would appreciate if you could add more gold bugs. Thank you.
Great with out graphics. Greater-er with them.
This game is very fun, but we have one complaint; almost every time we start the game, it always gets stuck on checking game version, and since the last patch what a year ago Im assuming the dev(s) left this game, but we are also on the most recent version (1.7.12) Whenever it wont work we have to open it from the App Store, which has seemed to work so far.
We like the style for the challenges but we really want another version of the challenges where you have to select a formation of your troops (or make a formation) then when you select that formation your troops go to battle and you can use special abilities or when you are low on your troops you can call in reinforcements.
Add enemies and this game would be five stars maybe swarm lord challenges are where you get to fight but we havent made it there. The whole game seems to be about being patient and expanding but thats not really challenging.
The game itself is pretty fun but the offers to earn gems dont actually pay out.
We love the web version but this tries too hard to be friendly to the point of irritation. Unless Im doing something wrong the tutorial is mandatory and you have to go through it any time you reset your game.
Game randomly decided to delete our whole army.
Game loaded in one time but afterwards keeps crashing and giving error messages.
We cant even open the game. Everything else works on our phone. We even tried using WiFi no wifi a VPN and every time we open the game it freezes and doesnt open. It is a broken game.
We cant get enough of this game. Hands down our favorite mobile game of 2019. Keep up the awesome work, devs.
We think it was fun for what it was made to be a tapping game.
As of a recent update, the 2x bonus for energy spawning granted from the no ads pack no longer works. While everything else is double production, the energy has reverted to the old amount. This is causing a much slower progression, which is the only thing holding us back from rating this 5 stars.
Its a great game but it takes forever to do some stuff like get a new unit or get enough energy to time travel other then that its a great game.
We have been looking for a game like this forever and we finally found it . We love this game we played this game for about 5hours the first day we had it.
The newest update says it fixed the game not loading beyond synching with the server. We did not have this error before. Now we do. We havent been a big fan of the latest updates as they dont seem to really do anything to make the game better. If anything, its become more buggy and unstable. This went from a cute time waster to a waste of time.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.18
- Size: 157.61 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: CS, EN, FR, DE, HU, IT, MS, PL, PT, RU, ES, TL, UK
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Iron Horse Games LLC]()
Last updated: 17th January 2024 | Genre: Simulation | Developer: Iron Horse Games LLC