By “survivor-like”, I think they meanVampire Survivors-like. This is topdown game in which you run around, grow absurdly powerful, and battle huge, well, swarms - all of which seems deeply familiar.

In fairness, in what is becoming a rapidly crowded genre, there’s plenty that Temtem: Swarm seems to do differently. It’s 3D, for one, and you can play it alone or in on-line co-op with up to three players.

Your character upgrades are also, of course, evolutions of your Tems, which Crema say introduces the strategy of the original Temtem to the survivor-like genre. That extends to your co-op squads, where there are synergies to be found between different teams of Tems, and you’ll need to make use of them in order to battle bosses as well as the swarms of weaker creeps.

Temtem: Swarm is aiming to release sometime this autumn. It’s upon Steam now.