Syndrome (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Syndrome

You wake up on a spaceship, dazed and confused from the effects of cryosleep, and begin to search for the rest of the crew. Where could they have gone? All too suddenly, you discover that most of them are…

45 6 October 2016

What Syndrome is

Syndrome is an adventure game developed by Camel 101 and released in 2016. It was published by Bigmoon Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You wake up on a spaceship, dazed and confused from the effects of cryosleep, and begin to search for the rest of the crew. Where could they have gone? All too suddenly, you discover that most of them are dead, and those still alive are… changed. With Syndrome, Camel 101 takes first person survival horror back to its roots. In the dark confines of the ship, you look for ways to defend yourself. There are a few weapons scattered about, but nowhere near enough ammunition to deal with all the transformed monstrosities. To survive and uncover the events that took place while you were asleep, you can’t always face your enemies head on; sometimes hiding and breathing as noiselessly as possible is…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Syndrome holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 23 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Syndrome launched on 6 October 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, Battlefield 1, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Persona 5, Battlefield 1, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.

Official trailer