Frozen Synapse
Frozen Synapse is a thrilling PC, Mac, Linux and tablet (iOS/Android) strategy game. It brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your…
Frozen Synapse is an indie developed by Mode 7, released 26 May 2011 on Android, iOS, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 33 hrs to finish.
What Frozen Synapse is
Frozen Synapse is an indie game developed by Mode 7 and released in 2011. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Torque 2D.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Frozen Synapse is a turn-based tactics video game developed by independent game developer Mode 7 Games, in which players plan their moves at their leisure and turns are resolved simultaneously. Players attempt to win by giving orders to a small squad of armed combatants, most commonly with the goal of eliminating all enemy units.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 16 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Frozen Synapse holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 21 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 33 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.6 GHz, 512 MB of RAM and Netbook integrated graphics. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Frozen Synapse launched on 26 May 2011, within three weeks of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Terraria. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Terraria.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Frozen Synapse yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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