ROCCAT Swarm is a new 4K ready cloud based unified driver which represents the software side of ROCCAT's 'Future Ready' philosophy. Considering their past experience with the mobile app 'powergrid', naturally ROCCAT are keen to see more utilisation of accessible technology, this means Swarm will be supported by a smartphone app (which at time of writing is still a work in progress) this will allow full control of your devices and allow on-the-fly changes in game without having to tab out of game and waste time. Swarm will also integrate current technologies employed by ROCCAT including Talk, TalkFX and AlienFX.

Currently, NYTH is the only supported device, however this will undoubtedly change over time as new products become available. They also plan to add legacy controls for older ROCCAT products over time too. The UI is attractive, easy to understand and easy to navigate, there are useful information highlights that give extra information if you get lost. There is an including profile/macro manager too just to complete things.

The controls for the NYTH are comprehensive with a host of customisable options as well as preset suggestions for button assignments and physical mapping for use with different games such as CS:GO and League of Legends.










The lighting options seem to be a less prominent feature with the NYTH, though, considering ROCCAT have been at the forefront of offering RGB full spectrum lighting since their entrance to the market with the Kone, its understandable that they now simply have 16.8M colour customisation there, and don't really mind for shouting about it. The NYTH has two colour zones, at the base and the logo, and can be used with ROCCAT TalkFX and AlienFX systems.