Frozen Synapse
8.3
Platforms
- PCMay 26, 20118.3playscore8.610 Critics8.51.49K Players
10 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Frozen Synapse is a great game, thanks to its elegant mechanics, the depth of its tactical gameplay, and the tension of trying to get into your opponent's head. Minor matchmaking issues and the occasional disadvantageous starting location are only minor blemishes on an otherwise engrossing experience. While some may find the visuals too Spartan, on the whole, they are a great fit and accentuate the game's unique tactical focus.
Daniel Shannon · Aug 03, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Frozen Synapse comes down to wits, psychology, and thinking two moves ahead. There's an exquisite tension every time the outcome of a turn is loading. There's an evil satisfaction to watching an enemy do exactly what you predicted, and die the way you planned. And there's a surprising sense of respect for your opponent when they outplay you with something masterful. Because you're not struggling against the mechanics of the game, it's rarely frustrating and often very, very fun.
Tom Francis · Jun 15, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Instead of the drawn-out affairs so common to the turn-based strategy genre, Frozen Synapse delivers brisk tactical encounters that are loaded with risk and excitement. The subtle tension that builds as strategic plans are hashed out and executed simultaneously on the battlefield is priceless, resulting in a fresh, chaotic experience you'll want to dive into over and over again.
NATHAN MEUNIER · Jun 15, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Honestly the developers could have stopped with just the multiplayer and had a shippable product that many would still enjoy thoroughly, but Frozen Synapse is crammed with even more elements that really combine to elevate it into greatness. On the single player side there is a 55 mission campaign in which you play as Tactics, a construct brought in to give orders to the otherwise mindless vatform soldiers. As the game describes it, they can move and shoot with the best of them, but try and give them a book and they are likely to eat it.
Justin Clouse · Jun 10, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Frozen Synapse manages to turn the intricate nature of turn-based tactical combat into something that is deviously complex yet accessible for all, and it does so in style. You might break it a couple of times, but you'll always come back for more. Expect it to make a lot of people's Top 10 lists this year.
Maurice Tan · Jun 04, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Frozen Synapse is a deep and engaging strategy title that has a lot to offer players who are willing to take the time to learn their way around the complexities of the gameplay. The cyberpunk-themed narrative of the campaign is backed up with electronic music and simple but vibrant graphics which help to create an appropriately futuristic feel.
Kit Goodlife · Mar 12, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Frozen Synapse is an excellent and inventive multiplayer game, but it is, truly, also an excellent and inventive single-player game - one that provides its own distinct challenges and rewards even as it effectively tutors you to be a multiplayer champ. But the dizzy thrill of defeating an implacable human opponent - after all that panicky guesstimation, all your courting of the mendacious spacebar - is the sweetest song the game has to sing.
Alec Meer · May 27, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Frozen Synapse est un titre à réserver aux joueurs minutieux qui aiment se prendre un minimum la tête pour mettre au point des tactiques millimétrées. Ces derniers trouveront un jeu riche, intense et difficile qui leur permettra aussi bien de se creuser les neurones en solitaire, que d'affronter d'autres tacticiens à travers un multijoueur particulièrement fignolé.
Miniblob · Aug 03, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Basé autour d'un gameplay en tour par tour simultané contrôlé via une vue aérienne aux graphismes particulièrement minimalistes, le jeu de Mode 7 Games nous excitera les méninges dans des affrontements très exigeants. Que ce soit en solo - où chaque mission sera l'occasion de déjouer une "situation" aux faux airs de casse-tête - ou bien en multi face à une communauté investie, on trouvera de quoi stimuler nos neurones et notre sens de l'anticipation.
Thomas Mangot · Jun 03, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Frozen Synapse is een strategiegame in zijn meest pure vorm en is daarom geschikt voor iedereen die houdt van tactisch denken en geen oogverblindende graphics nodig heeft om van een spel te genieten. De gameplay kent veel diepgang en is toch zeer toegankelijk voor beginnende strategen. Het verhaal van de singleplayer boeit niet echt maar de gameplay en de multiplayer zijn zo sterk dat je dit met plezier vergeet.
Joeri Hertogs · Jun 05, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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You've patched in to the enemy's security system: get ready to make your plan. Frozen Synapse is the ultimate strategy game: you have full control over your strike team, directing their every movement. At the same time, your opponent is plotting to defeat you. Plan your moves, then hit the "Execute" button: both you and your enemy's turns are executed simultaneously. Bite-size, hardcore strategy: a touch of X-Com and Laser Squad, with a striking sci-fi aesthetic.
Developer: Mode 7 Games