Synergy

Item: Synergy
Rating: 76
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-04-17

Summary

Visually stunning and unique art style.
Engaging, complex, strategic gameplay.
Ecology and plant-based gameplay focus.
Tedious, repetitive gameplay loop.
Frequent crashes, lag, and bugs.
Lacks content, depth, and replayability.

Reviews (sample size): 403
Helpful reviews: 91%
Unhelpful reviews: 9%
Protest reviews: 0%

76%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
24%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 805
Negative points: 518
Gameplay points: 204
Perf. points: 58
Rec. points: 264
Misc points: 54

Point	Description	Importance
Visually stunning and unique art Description The game features a highly praised and distinctive art style, often drawing comparisons to Moebius, Franco-Belgian comics, or 'Scavengers Reign'. Reviewers highlight the beautiful visuals, appealing colors, detailed artwork, and unique aesthetic as major draws, contributing significantly to the game's immersive atmosphere and overall enjoyment. Importance 95%	The game features a highly praised and distinctive art style, often drawing comparisons to Moebius, Franco-Belgian comics, or 'Scavengers Reign'. Reviewers highlight the beautiful visuals, appealing colors, detailed artwork, and unique aesthetic as major draws, contributing significantly to the game's immersive atmosphere and overall enjoyment.	95%
Engaging, complex, and strategic gameplay Description The game offers engaging and complex mechanics with a gentle learning curve, providing a satisfying city-building experience. Reviewers appreciate the strategic depth, freedom of choice, and the way different elements of the economy interact, making the game both challenging and rewarding. Importance 73%	The game offers engaging and complex mechanics with a gentle learning curve, providing a satisfying city-building experience. Reviewers appreciate the strategic depth, freedom of choice, and the way different elements of the economy interact, making the game both challenging and rewarding.	73%
Relaxing and chill atmosphere Description The game provides a relaxing and chill experience, featuring mellow music, soothing sounds, and an unhurried pace. This creates a peaceful and meditative atmosphere, making it suitable for unwinding and enjoying a stress-free management experience. Importance 48%	The game provides a relaxing and chill experience, featuring mellow music, soothing sounds, and an unhurried pace. This creates a peaceful and meditative atmosphere, making it suitable for unwinding and enjoying a stress-free management experience.	48%
Ecology and plant-based gameplay Description The game places a significant emphasis on plants and their interactions within the ecosystem, encouraging players to learn about and utilize natural resources in a sustainable way. This focus on ecology and environmental harmony sets it apart from other city builders, offering a unique and thought-provoking gameplay experience. Importance 44%	The game places a significant emphasis on plants and their interactions within the ecosystem, encouraging players to learn about and utilize natural resources in a sustainable way. This focus on ecology and environmental harmony sets it apart from other city builders, offering a unique and thought-provoking gameplay experience.	44%
Responsive developers, frequent updates Description The developers are responsive and actively listen to player feedback, consistently improving the game through frequent updates. Reviewers appreciate the substantial content available even in early access, highlighting the game's polish and the developers' commitment to creating a complete and enjoyable experience. Importance 35%	The developers are responsive and actively listen to player feedback, consistently improving the game through frequent updates. Reviewers appreciate the substantial content available even in early access, highlighting the game's polish and the developers' commitment to creating a complete and enjoyable experience.	35%
Good storytelling and narrative depth Description The game features a good narrative with spirited writing, offering a mix of uplifting and tragic stories. Reviewers appreciate the depth added by the storytelling and the interesting themes explored within the game. Importance 10%	The game features a good narrative with spirited writing, offering a mix of uplifting and tragic stories. Reviewers appreciate the depth added by the storytelling and the interesting themes explored within the game.	10%
Engaging world map exploration Description Exploration on the world map is well-implemented, offering fun options and lore that enriches the game world. The balance between building, research, and exploration is praised, creating an immersive and engaging experience. Importance 10%	Exploration on the world map is well-implemented, offering fun options and lore that enriches the game world. The balance between building, research, and exploration is praised, creating an immersive and engaging experience.	10%
Promising concept and potential Description Reviewers express that the game has a lot of potential and an interesting original idea. The concept of playing as researchers on an alien world is promising. Importance 6%	Reviewers express that the game has a lot of potential and an interesting original idea. The concept of playing as researchers on an alien world is promising.	6%
Enjoyable building animations Description The building construction stages and animations are enjoyable, adding to the overall experience. The game has an interesting build progression. Importance 4%	The building construction stages and animations are enjoyable, adding to the overall experience. The game has an interesting build progression.	4%
Similar to 'Scavengers Reign' Description The game's art style and atmosphere are reminiscent of the 'Scavengers Reign' series and the game Sable. Importance 4%	The game's art style and atmosphere are reminiscent of the 'Scavengers Reign' series and the game Sable.	4%