Bolt Swarm

Slide your arc cannon under a descending enemy grid and fire chain-lightning bolts to shred clusters before the swarm crosses your line.

Bolt Swarm gameplay
Arcade

How to play

Hold anywhere to fire; drag to slide the cannon. Bolts auto-target the enemy nearest your column and chain to packed neighbors. Catch 3 falling sparks to overcharge the next bolt (wider range, up to 4 chain hits). Keep the swarm off the cyan line.

Controls

  • Touch / Hold mouse: fire continuously, cannon follows your finger or mouse x
  • Drag / Move mouse: slide the cannon horizontally
  • Left-Right arrows or A/D: move cannon (desktop)
  • Space: fire; Space or Enter: start / restart

Tips

  • Aim at the center of packed rows — each chain hit is worth 10 x chain position x combo.
  • Keep killing within 2 seconds to stack the combo multiplier up to x5.
  • Slide under falling sparks: 3 catches overcharge your next bolt to chain 4 enemies at double range.
  • Save the overcharged bolt for when a fresh wave spawns, since each wave starts lower and faster.
  • Clear waves fast — wave-5 swarms reach the line in about 10 seconds if you idle.

About Bolt Swarm

A 6x3 grid of glowing diamonds marches down the screen, drifting side to side. If any enemy reaches the cyan defense line, your run ends — so keep firing. Every bolt kills its target and chains to up to two nearby enemies, so aiming into dense clusters scores far more than picking off stragglers. Kills within two seconds of each other build a combo multiplier up to x5, and clearing a wave respawns the swarm one row lower and 15% faster, forever. There's no winning, only a higher score each run.

Added Sep 23, 2026