When comparing Swarm Simulator vs Clicker Heroes, the Slant community recommends Swarm Simulator for most people. In the question“What are the best browser based idle games?” Swarm Simulator is ranked 8th while Clicker Heroes is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Swarm Simulator is:
The game grows at a decent pace, making your new upgrades feel like a true boost.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Good sense of scale
The game grows at a decent pace, making your new upgrades feel like a true boost.
Pro Oddly addictive
Once you start playing, you want to keep building your swarm. It's a simple enough game, but balancing your larvae and meat sources, as well as ensuring you have enough territory for upgrading your larvae spawn rate.
Pro Very basic and easy to pickup
There are a few basic categories of resources - meat, larvae, and territory. All of the units you build and upgrade add to this base resource, which makes it easy to follow. For example, drones harvest you more meat. Queens produce drones on their own, which will in turn supply you with more meat. Once you have 1000 queens and a decent chunk of meat, you can use them to upgrade to a hive which will produce 3 queens each second, which in turn makes more drones, which each gather meat. Any upgraded units trickle down the line, and produce just the basic resource.
Pro Fun boss battles
Something unique to this title is that there are boss battles every 5 stages. This requires that the player is leveled up enough to defeat them thanks to the timer in the boss battle. If the player is not at a good level, they will not be able to beat the boss in the time limit, which means there is a bit of attention that has to be payed to the game in order to make sure ones level is appropriate to advance. Basically more attention has to be payed to leveling in this game than other clickers which makes for more immersion in the game.
Cons
Con No good time to quit
The game never ends...your swarm just keeps multiplying. There aren't any good spots to say "OK, I can leave while I'm ahead", or even "There's no coming back from this - it's time to go". You get hooked, and then there goes the rest of your day.
Con Visually stale
The game is completely text-based, so there's not a lot of eye candy. The most interesting thing to look at are the blue bars, and how they slowly get bigger over time.
Con Requires Flash
It's 2016, you should uninstall Flash. Even Adobe no longer actively supports it.