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Symphony

Your music is under attack… You must liberate it! In Symphony, you fight through levels uniquely generated by your own song collection, discover items and vanquish bosses to defeat the evil within! With…

80 6 August 2012

Symphony is an arcade developed by Empty Clip Studios, released 6 August 2012 on Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Symphony is

Symphony is an arcade game developed by Empty Clip Studios and released in 2012. It is available on Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony was a concert series that featured music from video games performed by a live orchestra. The concerts from 2006 to 2010 were conducted by Arnie Roth. From 2010, Andy Brick took the position of principal conductor and music director. Play! was replaced by the Replay: Symphony of Heroes concert series.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 31 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Symphony holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM and MB, DirectX® 9.0c-compatible, Shader Model 3.0 or higher. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Symphony launched on 6 August 2012, within three weeks of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs and Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Symphony yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

Symphony — frequently asked questions

When did Symphony come out?
Symphony was released on 6 August 2012 for Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Symphony?
At minimum, Symphony needs 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, MB, DirectX® 9.0c-compatible, Shader Model 3.0 or higher graphics, 500 MB of storage.
How many GB is Symphony?
The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("500 MB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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