Symphony
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 1,496
- Critics
- 75 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 18% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8h
- To 100%
- 21.1h 2.6x the story
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 31
Price and sales
- Sales
- 25 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 September 2023
- Sale every
- 140d last September 2023
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 64% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
25 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 20 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 162 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beat Hazard ($9.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Beat Hazard 2 ($18.99, scores 62).
More about Symphony
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 9 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 173 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8 hours; clearing it takes 21, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 1133 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Despite features like the leaderboard no longer working and needing to have versions of your own songs in specific formats saved, this game feels remarkably fresh. It's vibrant, responds to music well, and is a generally really great time. Being able to upgrade your ship is a fun quirk, and that there's a storyline really helps. If you are using a controller, it's very important you go into controller settings and...
1 more review, not recommended
It's innovative, but its polish as a bullet-hell game is questionable, and the music doesn't integrate well with the gameplay. It almost feels like playing a bullet-hell game with random music in the background.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A mysterious entity is absorbing and corrupting your music before your very eyes. You must battle through your own song collection and fight to reclaim your music!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, MB, DirectX 9.0c-compatible, Shader Model 3.0 or higher, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Symphony scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/207750/symphonyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.