Don't swing at the swarm, sow a garden of weapon-plants and let them mow it down while you dodge.
A horde-survival auto-battler with a green thumb: you never attack directly. Instead you plant seeds that sprout into weapon-plants, and mature plants fire on the swarm automatically. Cultivate your garden, weave through enemies, and survive the wave for 60 seconds.
Another take on the Vampire Survivors horde form, and like Pacifist Survivors it takes the weapon out of your hands — but for a different reason.
Here you plant. Weapon-plants are sown, they grow, and they do the mowing while you dodge, which is closer to tower defence than to an action game.
Crossing the two is the idea. Tower defence lets you plan at leisure behind a fixed line; the survivors-like has no line and no pause. Planting under those conditions means committing to positions while the thing you are defending against is already moving.
Garden Survivors reimagines the horde-survival auto-battler as a defensive gardening puzzle, where the only weapons are the plants you grow. It's an original free browser game on PlayPendium with daily and practice runs.