Store Charts

Players in Game

443 😀 83 😒

79,03%

Rating

$24.99

Synergy Steam Charts & Stats

Humans live on a hostile planet. In this survival city builder, develop your city, face natural disasters, make the right choices. Explore this environment-changing world while keeping your people happy despite extreme weather conditions.

App ID	1989070
App Type	GAME
Developers	Leikir Studio
Publishers	Goblinz Publishing
Categories	Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Stats, Steam Workshop
Genres	Strategy, Simulation
Release Date	Q1 2024
Platforms	Windows, Mac, Linux
Supported Languages	English, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Spanish - Latin America, Polish

54 Players in Game

368 All-Time Peak

79,03 Rating

Steam Charts

54 Players in Game

368 All-Time Peak

79,03 Rating

At the moment, Synergy has 54 players actively in-game. This is 0% lower than its all-time peak of 0.

526 Total Reviews

443 Positive Reviews

83 Negative Reviews

Score

Synergy has garnered a total of 526 reviews, with 443 positive reviews and 83 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘’ overall score.

Reviews Chart

Chart above illustrates the trend of feedback for Synergy over time, showcasing the dynamic changes in player opinions as new updates and features have been introduced. This visual representation helps to understand the game's reception and how it has evolved.

Recent Steam Reviews

This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback

Playtime: 1150 minutes

I want to like the game, but given how it runs later on and how bugged one particular resource is I simply cannot recommend it. Also there are multiple quality of life improvements that I feel like are missing that are almost mandatory if you want to not strain your eyes trying to look for zones or buildings. Multiple cool concepts but they are executed with very little thought put into them. Seriously the moment I realized that artifacts vanish from my storage I got upset. Can't progress the game without them and trying to not play with most of the late game buildings and tech tree is some grade A bs

👍 : 9 | 😃 : 0

Negative

Playtime: 881 minutes

I really tried to like this game because I usually love all colony/city building games. The first time I played, I found the gameplay tedious and uninteresting, and the interface difficult to navigate. I gave the game another chance when I saw that there were 2 new updates, after playing for a few hours I realized that i was bored out of my mind. Will probably never play again, but keeping the game in case they do a huge re-work. Looked at the reviews and realized the devs copy pasted the same response to many of the reviews, which made me wonder if they even read it. Hey devs, if you are planning to do that on my review, don't bother.

👍 : 6 | 😃 : 0

Negative

Playtime: 354 minutes

The world is dying, you have to rebuild society in a strange world and then ....you have to build benches and flags to make people happy otherwise they leave your city (where do they go, to die alone in the desert?). Great game idea and aesthetics, horrible execution with the citizen satisfaction grind. It's an post-apocalypse world, why do citizens care about having tea houses or fancy decorations when water is dwindling and they could all die next day? Game's cute but needs more polish for QoL/UX and citizens' needs stuff. Wait for a discount.

👍 : 29 | 😃 : 4

Negative

Playtime: 5328 minutes

Synergy is a breath of fresh air in the space of city builders, even if its deserts are stifling at first for long-time veterans of the genre. The trick is to unlearn what you have learned from other titles. Rather than try and cram in as much as possible into your districts and arrive at space-saving layouts a la Anno, Synergy rewards players who lean into its collectivist, utopian vision and create spacious permaculture congolmerations. Building with lots of room in your grid allows you to arrive ultimately at the game's titular synergies, weaving in beneficial plants, supportive structures like fountains and canals, and the wide variety of functional decorations needed to genuinely fulfill your citizens--rather than just keep them alive from cycle to cycle. Despite it's emphasis upon these finer aspects of life (e.g., tea, socialization, learning), death by starvation or dehydration always seems right around the corner. Figuring out which food sources will work from map to map is a rewarding puzzle, and properly integrating these discoveries into your logistics network before disaster arrives presents a meaningful challenge.

👍 : 11 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 403 minutes

It's a little tedious at times. scanning everything around you. There's so many buildings and so many recipes for everything. For a game like this you need a excellent UI. They've got a decent interface, but you spend far too much time relying on tooptips, to find what your looking for. The world map expeditions are really more of an annoying distraction than fun. Especially, when your up to your eyeballs in the interface. I think it may be better for the player, to speed up progression and streamline things, where they can. The graphic style is nice, but the audio/music are a bit poor, resulting in a pretty dull and flat experience. I'll come back to it at a later date for another run.

👍 : 8 | 😃 : 0

Negative

Playtime: 1340 minutes

Artstyle is beautiful, plants and their behaviour are interesting, but the game play is just boring. It lacks the engaging dynamic and storyline from Frostpunk or Ixion.

👍 : 10 | 😃 : 0

Negative

Playtime: 763 minutes

If I could give it a neutral vote I would. Pros: +art style +functional +things to unlock +tracking of individual units. +plant focus! Cons: -the UX around information design is not good: plant information is hard to use flexibly, it's not intuitive to find buildings, the research menu feels like a giant blob of confusion, and the resource menus take some time to interpret. -the mood is dour without captivation or intrigue. things just sort of happen. it's not bad to watch youtube while playing but then that takes away some immersion. -the systems are present but they are too straightforward, lacking more sophisticated dynamic interaction compared to other games. Overall, I think this game could be interesting if you haven't played many strategy games or city-builders and have a bit of patience. To veterans or people easily frustrated, they might find it a bit middling or boring as it does not do enough to deviate from the formula, once you look past the art and overall theming. I currently would not recommend this to friends, but I am open to changing my mind since I like the vibes and some of the design intent such as the plant focus.

👍 : 11 | 😃 : 0

Negative

Playtime: 2507 minutes

One of the few games that really nails city building and exploration within an alien and hostile environment. There's so much here around climate adaptation and permaculture that hasn't been captured in any games. Kind of like a "terraforming" game but without the cliche focus on planetary-scale geo-engineering of Mars. It's pretty. It's challenging. I really appreciate the devs for creating it.

👍 : 17 | 😃 : 0

Positive

Playtime: 1207 minutes

That's my 20 hours in, and for a game that doesn't say much there's a lot to unpack. There was almost something special here but as it stands right now, the gameplay is flawed and performance at later stages of a playthrough decreases horribly. The game looks nice, it's a unique style and I get a sort of fever dream aesthetic from it, although in spite of its nice visuals there's very little effort in creating atmosphere otherwise. It's a nice idea to try and make a colony out of nothing, make use of what nature gives you and try and cultivate that, however here are the bad things that stuck out for me: - As long as you have one steady food source and water, there isn't really any other factor to consider purely when it comes to survival. - Trying to upgrade your colony through wellbeing, culture, etc. by spamming benches, flags and crystals when at the end of the day you're not even sure if it made a difference to the culture meter, for example, seems so out of place, particularly when the supposed threat of annihilation is looming next dry season. As in, why must I scramble to try and get my culture from a 9 to a 10, but not care about the next drought at all? - Trying to get info on what's happening terrain and resource-wise gets pretty convoluted. If I'm checking my picker station to see what they're doing why is there no info about the resources I'm getting from seeding xyz plant, for example. Do I really need to go looking around the encyclopaedia for this info? If I want to check the terrain do I need to memorise all the effects and parameters? I get that there are heat maps to help but at some point you have to throw the player a bone and let him see things at a glance. - 90% of quests for scenarios are either meeting camps via expeditions for arbitrary tasks or increasing culture/wellbeing/knowledge meters. - Many many resources seem to get spent as a way of sustaining an area in which culture/wellbeing/etc. via certain buildings, instead of being spent on actual gameplay or construction or whatever other reason that would make more sense. No, just turned into invisible nothingness to increase meters.

👍 : 43 | 😃 : 1

Negative

Playtime: 492 minutes

I got really frustrated with this game. I wanted to like it. One of the most infuriating things is the game crashes. I've read the forums which suggested turning off the autosaves, but even still, there are a ton of other bugs and it does not fix all the other problems. For instance, there's a lack of polish on the updates of several mechanics, especially with the citizens not obeying your priorities, or you not really knowing where your workers are. There's a red "Other tasks" number where your workers are supposedly doing something else, but you cannot find out what those "other tasks" are no matter where you click. Also, if your citizens die of hunger or other causes, there's no real-time update, so the game still thinks you have some workers but you really don't. So you save, then restart, and BOOM, you get a ton of notifications of dead citizens that you didn't know you had dead. Then when you assign workers to buildings, it's the same thing. You assign people, you check that you have "5 available workers," but then the game tells you "the position is requested but there are no available citizens," so which is it? Ultimately, you can't get your people to work on what you need. For example, in the dry season, you unassign workers from the Pontoon to have them build wells or focus on ripping out water from the landscape, but NO, they don't do anything and sit "idle" just pacing, so they eventually die of thirst... sigh. And so on. So no, not recommended.

👍 : 59 | 😃 : 1

Negative

Synergy Steam Achievements

Synergy offers players a rich tapestry of challenges, with a total of 14 achievements to unlock. These achievements span a variety of in-game activities, encouraging exploration, skill development, and strategic mastery. Unlocking these achievements provides not only a rewarding experience but also a deeper engagement with the game's content.

Revelations

Collect 10 tablets across all games

Elsewhere Blossoms

Integrate 5 new plants collected during expeditions across all games

Small Celebrity

Reach a prosperity score of 2000

Marking Generations

Reach a prosperity score of 5000

Close to Utopia

Reach a prosperity score of 10000

Better Safe Than Sorry

Have at least 50 healthy citizens in the city, and no dead during the game

Great Health

Have at least 100 healthy citizens in the city, and no dead during the game

Idle Doctors

Have at least 200 healthy citizens in the city, and no dead during the game

Renewed Bonds

Complete the "Anchoring" campaign

Golden Anchor

Complete the "Anchoring" campaign with a gold medal for each scenario

Living in a museum

Get 50 decorations in your city

Eccentric inventors

Get all buildings that produce Science & Heritage points in your city

City of the future

Have 6 districts of different types in your maximum score

City of Hope

Have at least 150 citizens with all satisfaction at 30 in your city

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Synergy Minimum PC System Requirements

Minimum:

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Core i3 or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 and/or OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: Any

Synergy Recommended PC System Requirements

Recommended:

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Core i5 or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 and/or OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: Any

Synergy Minimum MAC System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: OS X 10.8.5
Processor: 1,3 GHz CPU
Memory: 2 GB RAM

Synergy Recommended MAC System Requirements

Recommended:

OS: OS X 10.9.1
Processor: Dual-core 2Ghz CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM

Synergy Recommended Linux System Requirements

Recommended:

OS: Ubuntu 12.04+ Desktop only
Processor: Dual-core 2Ghz CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM

Synergy has specific system requirements to ensure smooth gameplay. The minimum settings provide basic performance, while the recommended settings are designed to deliver the best gaming experience. Check the detailed requirements to ensure your system is compatible before making a purchase.

Synergy Latest News & Patches

This game has received a total of 21 updates to date, ensuring continuous improvements and added features to enhance player experience. These updates address a range of issues from bug fixes and gameplay enhancements to new content additions, demonstrating the developer's commitment to the game's longevity and player satisfaction.

Hotfix #1 - 22/05/2024

Date: 2024-05-22 14:42:52

👍 : 68 | 👎 : 0

Hotfix #2 - 23/05/2024

Date: 2024-05-23 13:15:13

👍 : 69 | 👎 : 0

Hotfix #3 - 24/05/2024

Date: 2024-05-24 13:30:54

👍 : 76 | 👎 : 0

Hotfix #4 - 29/05/2024

Date: 2024-05-29 15:14:24

👍 : 76 | 👎 : 0