Frozen Synapse
Fair · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 23.6h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Netbook integrated graphics, 215 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was June 2015. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 67 in the 14 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ENDLESS Legend™ ($7.49, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Chaos Reborn ($9.99, scores 32).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
46% start to <1% rarestNo 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
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
UW Support - ❓ Steam Deck Playable - ❌ This is a game that has not aged well. Playing through the tutorial and some of the levels and they were challenging and fun! The same cannot be said for the support for this game. My account is locked out due to me forgetting the password and it's been months since I've heard back from the support. I get that it's an old game, doesn't mean that locking the two player behind a...
Pretty revolutionary when it came out and very fun. Unfortunately it has lost a lot of the magic over the years and is quite outdated now.
Frozen Synapse, developed and published by Mode 7, stands as one of the most cerebral and elegantly designed tactical strategy games of its generation. It trades spectacle for intellect, opting for a minimalist presentation that places every ounce of attention on precision, planning, and psychological warfare. At its heart, the game is a simultaneous turn-based tactics experience, where both players plot their moves...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Frozen Synapse scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/98200/frozen-synapseThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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