Syndrome
Skip · Shooter · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 12, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.7h 15.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.30/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 373 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
About the game
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / AMD Radeon HD 5750. OpenGL 3.3, 9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
71 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. On the same math Alien: Isolation ($39.99, scores 72) and Metro Exodus ($29.99, scores 67) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Syndrome
56 from critics against 64 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
49% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is way to expensive at this review time. 20€ is way too much for what this game is. This game is an amateurish, low-budget, simplistic go fetch kind of gameplay, with a ton of backtracking on the same pitch black levels (way worse than Doom 3 or Fear 1). It also has a very barebone save system, there are no checkpoints or save anywhere, only on certain special machines kinda similar to Resident Evil. So...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Death from exposed wiring. And steam pipes on a starship. The horror. I checked if the hazards also damage enemies, but seems not. Weapons disappear from inventory. With no way to get them back as you only notice afterward. Nice quality assurance process! It is mostly a walking simulator with pretend combat. Ping-pong tasks that bounce you around. Selective vents around blocked doors and caved in ceilings (haha!)...
You can feel the weight of the years on this one, but it's still worth a play. It starts relatively easy with slow zombie creatures coming at you, but all of a sudden you're running away from towering bladed monsters that can kill you with a couple of strikes. Conserving ammo is key, in typical survival horror fashion. Has its moments, but could be a bit shorter imo.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Syndrome scores 12/100 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/409320/syndromeReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.