Syndrome

 PC
Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 5 out of 18
  1. Riot Pixels
    Nov 25, 2016
    40
    Space engineers are trending in horror games, but you'd be better off spending your time with Amanda Ripley from Alien: Isolation or Isaac Clarke from the Dead Space series.
  2. COGconnected
    Oct 19, 2016
    40
    In short, Syndrome is disappointing. Your level of disappointment will depend on how many horror games you have played as the games Syndrome borrows from are all substantially better.
  3. Eurogamer Italy
    Oct 7, 2016
    40
    Syndrome can’t be recommended to any particular player, except to a diehard fan of horror games, even though second-rate games.
  5. DarkStation
    Oct 6, 2016
    40
    It succeeds at being scary, but that is about the only part of the game that lives up to expectations. It’s poorly designed and poorly refined stealth mechanics make for a very frustrating experience, and the game gives you no reason to endure that frustration. There is little to reward you for your troubles.
  6. GameCritics
    Oct 7, 2016
    20
    Syndrome might offer a beautiful ship to look at, but it’s a buggy mess that fails to get the essentials right. This lovely ship can’t make up for an ugly everything else.

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User Score
5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 18
  3. Negative: 5 out of 18
  1. Sjalka
    Oct 12, 2016
    5
    I only have "first impressions" - because i did not really play much more than 2 hours i think - and so .. did not get very far.... .

    I did    I only have "first impressions" - because i did not really play much more than 2 hours i think - and so .. did not get very far.... .

    I did like the visuals - although they were not very detailed in my opinion. What bothered me was the layout of what is meant to be a space ship. So unless the intention of the architect that build the ship was to make it a maze ... the map made little to no sense to me.

    The problem is that such games live and die with immersion.

    So i am left to wander around a pretty scenery that i cannot interact with properly. (i can only interact with VERY few objects - although there is stuff around that i would definitely consider to be very useful. Also ... even powered up ... the ships lights seem to be magical. They will almost blind you when you look into them - with fancy coronas and lens flares ... but their light radius hardly ever extends to more than a meter.
    I know i know ... a ship in perpetual shadows is fancier than a brightly lit apple store - but it still doesn t make sense.

    What i mean to say with all that is ... that the game never managed to immerse me ... and so i was rather bored than succumbed to built up tension. (I found Bioshock to be a lot scarier than this one.... mind you.. i also did not find any of the Dead Space games to be scary - maybe i am just not scared of space stuff much)

    So after this brief playtime ... i am left with little desire to resume playing. This is a simple and average game in my opinion - it does not offer much to stand out - but does not really disappiont much either. Pretty average imo.    … Full Review »
  2. maluzeiner
    Oct 9, 2016
    9
    Good story, excellent little easter eggs, great level design, mechanics controls could be better and voice acting but. If you like RPG,Good story, excellent little easter eggs, great level design, mechanics controls could be better and voice acting but. If you like RPG, Stealth and FPS, give this game a chance and you will not regret.

    It's not for casual horror players.

    This is a true hardcore horror game!    … Full Review »
  3. Kapanga
    Nov 14, 2016
    8
    A must-have for the horror enthusiast.
    You've got the usual *something gone wrong* here, and you pick up right after the chaos starts.
    There    A must-have for the horror enthusiast.
    You've got the usual *something gone wrong* here, and you pick up right after the chaos starts.
    There are disgusting enemies and gruesome dead bodies and backstories that can be read (some worse than the visuals), and a few twists here are there, that might get you off guard.
    While not completely original, the game is solid and fun.    … Full Review »
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