SYNCH

SYNCH

Travis Forkner · April 11, 2017 · Free to Play, Indie, Casual, Strategy

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About SYNCH

✦ AI summary

SYNCH is a team-based action game where you assemble a squad of five specialized robots to battle otherworldly threats and defeat powerful boss bots in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Build your perfect team composition across distinct classes like the sharpshot TracerBot, bruising BerzerkBot, and summoner CreatorBot, then adapt your strategy on the fly as you face randomly-selected bosses with unique skill combinations.

In the apocalyptic wastelands of the future, with nothing but scrap and corrosive acid pervading the landscape, derelict robots work together to survive an otherworldly menace that threatens to destroy the feeble communities that manage to scrape by. It takes a band of bots to fend off one's foreign foes. Choose your perfect team of bots to take down the evil boss bot and his floating flunkies!

Features:
  • 5 Bot Classes: Customize your own team to fit your favorite play style
    > TracerBot: The sharpshot. She gets them right in the knee and primes targets for damage from teammates.
    > BerzerkBot: The bulldozing beast. He has dreams of becoming a rhino, but alas, his head bears no horn, despite his huge metal frame.
    > AcidBot: The potionsmaster. Insists that the world would be better off drenched in acid.
    > PullBot: The professional hugger. He'll pull you close, even from a distance, and get you right where he wants you.
    > CreatorBot: The lonely mad scientist. She tarries away the day, making a buddy to bloody the fields (or dismantle, whichever).
  • 3 Distinct Boss Bots
    > Strategize on the fly against a randomly-selected boss each playthrough!
  • Unique and Interesting Skills
    > Discover how to utilize your team's individual skills to find the most effective combinations

Artists:
  • Amy Li - Robots/Environment: Amy's Portfolio
  • Joseph Dufault - Concept Art/Music
  • Kathlyn Ramsey - Concept art

SYNCH — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

SYNCH is a simple 2D strategy puzzle game with unique synchronization mechanics and good balancing that appeals to players who enjoy unconventional gameplay requiring careful planning. Common criticisms include its limited content with few maps, short playtime, a steep difficulty curve that may frustrate newcomers, and dated pixel graphics that some feel don't meet modern standards for game development.

Recommended Jun 22, 2024
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Not recommended Jan 28, 2025
"SYNCH" is a student project from the Christian Baylor University in Waco, Texas. This year the students failed the course, and this is because the teachers failed the students. If I was teaching a game development class, I guess I would have to make sure to instruct the students that 3D graphics cards became mainstream in the mid 1990s... and that pixelcrap was discarded by professional developers the exact same time monitors capable of higher than 480p resolution were on the market. Failing to instruct the students in the basic state of the art for computer game development is failing as a teacher. What do you do in the game? This year the students made a 2D top down retro pixel turn based strategy games... reasonably shallow with just a handful of units, small maps, no meaningful plot... this might have some legs if the technical delivery was remotely contemporary, but I have no idea what was going through the teachers minds at Baylor. "I played a video game on a Commodore 64 once, so clearly I am qualified to teach students in 2017 from that experience." This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the deve…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 21, 2026
incredible balancing
Recommended Feb 27, 2026
SYNCH is a simple game. I wish there will be more maps.
Recommended Oct 28, 2025
Игра «SYNCH» — это необычная головоломка, где ключевой элемент — синхронизация действий. Визуальная привлекательность и оригинальная механика заставляют задуматься о каждом шаге. Игровой процесс требует внимательности и стратегического подхода, но сложность может отпугнуть новичков. Минус — короткая продолжительность. Однако для любителей нестандартных задач «SYNCH» станет приятным испытанием.
Recommended Jul 26, 2025
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