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Build a settlement in an unfamiliar ecosystem by studying plants, managing resources, and preparing your citizens for harsh seasons.
Released 16 Apr 2025
Study Local Flora
Shape Plant Ecosystems
Prepare for Droughts
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Developed by Leikir Studio · Published by Goblinz Publishing, H2 Interactive Co., Ltd.
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In a strange and challenging environment, you lead a settlement whose survival depends on understanding the natural world around it. Your role is to provide for citizens while building a city that can develop alongside its ecosystem.
Study local plants and other natural elements to learn what they provide and how they interact. Harvest resources, manage workers and production, meet needs such as food and water, and plan for changing seasons and dry periods.
Research unlocks technologies, cultural developments, and new buildings. Arrange buildings into specialized districts to gain bonuses, and send citizens on expeditions to discover new destinations, meet survivors, and return with knowledge, materials, and plant species.
Players who enjoy Synergy often praise its distinctive illustrated style and atmospheric world, along with its focus on studying plants and balancing settlement needs with the surrounding ecosystem. Reviewers also appreciate the planning involved in managing resources, districts, and environmental changes. These impressions are mixed with recurring criticism of slow or repetitive progression and systems some players find difficult to understand or manage.
Conduct analysis of the plants and other natural elements of the region and flesh out your Knowledge Book.
This newly-acquired knowledge will provide you with an essential guide to obtaining resources, ensuring the safety of your citizens and optimizing your city, thus promoting survival and prosperity through a sustainable approach in harmony with the surrounding natural environment.
Assign citizens to the research center and the hall of wisdom to launch research projects. Technological research allows you to uncover new advanced techniques, while cultural research will innovate on processes and civil structures.
This quest for knowledge also gives you access to several new buildings. From extraction structures to social spaces, from harvesting points to cultural buildings, every new construction and discovery helps you shape your city's evolution.
Build nine districts with unique features around the various squares by cleverly placing your buildings. Take advantage of the powerful bonuses specific to each district to foster the development of your city. Meet the needs of your citizens and thrive by providing them with the most satisfying accommodations possible.
Gather your citizens and send them on expeditions to learn more about the world.
Exploration is an important vector of progression in the game. Explore increasingly remote regions to reveal new destinations, meet other survivors and convince them to join your city, find tablets bearing priceless knowledge, and bring back new plant species to introduce into your environment.
Your citizens are immersed in a strange environment, both mesmerizing and unforgiving. Your goal is to build a city to help them prosper. You will need to explore, analyze and experiment with new things.
In Synergy, the well-being of your citizens is paramount. You will need a deep understanding of their environment to help them adapt and thrive.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 16 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
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