DESYNC

DESYNC

Skip · Shooter · 2017

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$14.99Skip

On its price record

$7.01Fair

Length
4.2h
Value
$3.57/hr
Reviews
80% of 501 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.01 or less.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1019 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$3.57/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 79% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 108 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

DESYNC is an intense single-player first person action game that begs you to play dangerously and creatively. Eliminate your opponents as you perform violent attack sequences using the explosive digital weaponry and lethal side-arms at your disposal.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

33 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 146 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Turbo Overkill ($19.99, scores 80) and Serious Sam II ($9.99, scores 78) both outscore it.

More about DESYNC

Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

79% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Rating 4/10 Intro Maybe this was fun to play, pre-Amid Evil and Dusk, but we have so many quality old-school shooter choose from now, that something like this simply won't cut the butter. Positives + Good soundtrack. + Good enemy variety. + Weapons have good impact. Negatives - Poor user interface. - Poor feedback as to what's doing damage to you. - Unique aesthetics don't mean much when it comes at the expense of...
forsanxlNot recommendedafter 3.1hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I don't remember how I got this game in my library, but after a few hours of playing, I just can't get behind the design choices behind level selection, weapon upgrade menus, how progression is done through the game etc. I get it, you gotta kill enemies with style yada yada, but the combat just isn't engaging enough or the progression doesn't give direction for me to want to play more. I'm just finishing a level...
GalilfordNot recommendedafter 3.1hJun 2026Read on Steam
An evolution of Bulletstorm's fps hyper-kill mechanics, turned into an ultra customizable arcade game about mixing it up.
neocowRecommendedafter 5.5hMar 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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DESYNC scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/390030/desync
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThe Foregone Syndicate
PublisherAdult Swim Games
GenreShooter
Released2017
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements179