PC (Microsoft Windows)2021

Synthetik 2

SYNTHETIK 2 is a bold continuation of SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising. Fight a world overrun by the relentless Machine Legion. Experience the next level in gun-play and upgrade yourself beyond measure to rival their Gods. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?

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Keywords

roguelite

Reviews

100 total

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Steam User 8523STEAMNot recommended

Coop connectivity is an issue. Not only is it not good, it's bad. More bugs need fixing.

Had a coop run with a friend that multispawned Nemesis rifles and glitched my gun UI. I was 3 seconds behind him in latency. I could not change or fire weaponry, activate abilities. Run over because I got lucky.

Powering up certain items will kill you, like the psy mind detonator. It becomes functionally worthless if you get the radius increased at all. It will explode you.

Getting the trap class evolution on machine hunter constantly throws traps at your and your hound's feet. With a certain red relic, this places AOE curses directly at your feet, which cause you to lose health, which recharges the relic, which drops curses at your feet, etc.

Getting high luck items seems to just automatically end the run depending on the class you play. Sure, you can skip those items, even drop them. But then why are they there if trying to capitalize on your luck is not risky, but a surefire way to end your run. Luck stops being a reward.

Game needs more time and tweaks is all.

Mar 18, 2026·24h·3·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6769STEAMRecommended

Hey hey people, if you like ultra violence and synthetik this is the game for you. I wholeheartedly recommend it if you enjoy rogue lites, bumping music, and GUN. the multiplayer experience with friends makes this an 11/10

Mar 18, 2026·42h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4167STEAMRecommended

game is very fun, but BEWARE: there are UNEXPLAINABLE BUGS, ranging from nonsensical, to run ending. generally, everything works, and this is a lot more forgiving than the first game, highly recommend.

Mar 18, 2026·49h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4867STEAMNot recommended

мне очень интересно кто это говно кодил, что ♥♥♥♥♥ с оптимизацией и почему вылетает с критической ошибкой через 15м???

Mar 18, 2026·1h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7390STEAMRecommended

I'm an Synthetik 1 veteran and now after beating the final boss several times and finishing it with 175 %, its time to say something about the sequel.

First of all - its one of the best indie games out there. 95% not even close. Shooting feels better than it was in Zoom The Soy Ages, and it says a lot.

The game itself is generally a good sequel. Things were addressed. Guns are more balanced and useful. Items now have proper upgrades like multicast (which is broke af but the the point of the genre). Classes are (somewhat) better. Class progression is better, more simple, having more sense and less pointless numbers.
Levels are big improvement. Much better than originals. There is more music.

The rest... there is a road still.
-- Optimization is... there. Somewhere. Its Unity. Fps drops here and there. Its ok more or less. The main menu is dumping at my card at 100% and I have like 35fps... which is never happening in the rest of the game and I have solid 60 fps most of the times. Whoever designed the location on menu background - well done, great job (no). I would prefer classic 2d background, not the tons of stuff grounded on Unity that burn your card alive.
-- Quests are... whats even that? Its supposed to guide you through the game, but what happening there is that I already killed the final boss several times and Im still stuck on the second quest, and the techno girl keep says that we neeed research on enemies or whatever... Girl, we won already. Many times.
Its bad, it had no purpose, no progression, no lore, no skill, no nothing. And you NEED these quests - to unlock classess. So you stuck for DOZENS of hours unable to unlock them. Well done.
-- co-op... well, its there and its working... kinda. Coop is generally better than it was in 1, less bugs like invisible shops and stuck cameras, But connection problems are tremendous. Devs learned nothing and put servers in Hitlers bunker again. Not cool.

Mar 18, 2026·24h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5194STEAMRecommended

[UPDATED] I am changing my review to positive because the developers are incredibly responsive! Literally the day after I sent an email to support regarding the severe co-op lobby issues, they replied and actually fixed the problem. My friends and I can finally play together without the lobby bugging out, and it's an absolute blast. It is so rare and refreshing to see devs who listen to player feedback and act on it this fast.

If you like roguelikes and want a great co-op experience, I highly recommend it. 10/10 for the support team!

--- Original Review Below ---
I really want to like this game—I do like this game—but I can’t recommend it in its current state.

Synthetik 2 has fantastic gameplay. The gunplay feels great, the classes are fun and varied, the music is excellent, and the visual effects are genuinely satisfying. The few times my friend and I actually managed to get co-op working, we had an amazing time. It’s exactly the kind of experience we were hoping for.

But that’s the problem: those moments are rare. Right now, co-op is practically unplayable for us. We’ve spent up to two hours trying to start a single match without success. The “Ready” button often doesn’t work, the host can’t see other players in the lobby, and the game simply never launches. We’ve also tried joining other servers with different players, and the same issues keep happening.

It’s gotten to the point where it completely kills the enjoyment we initially had. I even recommended the game to two of my friends, and now I honestly feel guilty about it because we can’t even play together. That was the main reason we bought it.

I’ve tried reaching out to the developers, but so far I haven’t received any response. I really hope this gets fixed, because there’s a great game here—but as it stands, I’m forced to leave a negative review.

Mar 18, 2026·24h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1517STEAMRecommended

It's fast, it'tense and has a really great gunplay

Mar 18, 2026·9h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1711STEAMRecommended

Wack ass game, it's gouda, when the coop actually decides to work atleast.

Mar 17, 2026·7h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2066STEAMRecommended

Pretty fun game, would reccomend for anyone that enjoys more techincal rouge-lites.
It can be difficult when you first start learning the controls but once you get the grip of them it becomes a very enjoyable experience.

Mar 17, 2026·5h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0276STEAMRecommended

I did watch Seth's video a few days ago, so of course I had to give this game another chance,

It really does feel like I'm playing the og Synthetik

Mar 17, 2026·11h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3566STEAMRecommended

thanks for the awesome game =)
I think the difficulty level is very decent and gunplay is alot of fun espacially with the upgrades so you can build it to you prefered playstyle.
i have only played in singleplayer but I can imagine that multiplayer is alot of fun with all the different classes.

Mar 17, 2026·28h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9253STEAMNot recommended

Coop still doesn't work without a few dozen problems, but it's only been 4+ years. They'll get there eventually, I'm sure!

Mar 17, 2026·3h·4·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6604STEAMNot recommended

(25hrs in)
First of all, let me just say that:
This is a good game --BUT-- with some major bugs.

I hate to give Synthetik2 a bad Steam review.
But the bugs that I've personally encounter are borderline unacceptable.

1. Mouse click is not registered properly. (the only one that I'm going to spread, because it's affecting gameplay)
Synthetik2 has guns that need some windup before firing, and some that are fully automatic.
But because of the mouse click problem:
a. The guns that require windup before firing are only shooting 40% chance of a time (personal experience) because when you hold down the mouse button, there is a 60% chance it stop registering your mouse hold, stopping you from winding up the gun and shoot it.
b. The guns that are fully automatic, most of the time, only fire 2-6 bullets of a time (or all of them if you're lucky) because again, when you hold down your mouse button, after >1s, it just stop registering your mouse click even though you're still holding your click, turning a fully automatic guns into a burst guns.
c. Sniper's laser ability are less effective. You're suppose to charge your laser aim to get a guarantee crit. But, yet again, you have to hold down your mouse button. From my personal experience, I've manage to get a 100% crit shot like.. 20% of a time. But at least the increase accuracy and decreased deviation still work.
d. Heavy gunner, as a class, is less effective. The gimmick of heavy gunner class is, you fire your gun slowly, then build up fire rate as you hold down your mouse button. But the game does not registering mouse click very well. So most likely, you will not get the full fire rate of any guns that you use with this class.

2. Music and NPC voice does not work properly. (For the BGM) Most of the time, you're just going to hear silence, of heavily amplified bass that you'll hear crack. (For the NPC voice) Occasionally, the audio will overlap or NPC will talk in a loop, while overlapping.

3. You play 2-3 runs, you quit out the game to do something else, you get back into the game, and it run like crap (until you restart your computer). With my current setup, I manage to get 160fps (medium settings), but when I relaunch the game without restarting my system (and using the same settings), it suddenly dropped to 40fps. You need to restart your PC every time you want to play this game.

I got in after Sseth drop the video about this game, which spike the review to positive (from mixed).
Again, this is a good game. The guns are fun to use. dashing around like a maniac using commando and chrono interceptor is fun, explode everything with the demolisher is crazy.

But still, with some of the bugs that I've experienced, I can't recommend this game (YET).

Mar 17, 2026·38h·3·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8484STEAMRecommended

Great gun play and verity in different attachments and perks.
Just a fun game to play with friends.

Mar 17, 2026·22h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2005STEAMRecommended

Don't think ive had this much fun on a game for quite some time. The variety of weapons and perks are insane and the gameplay is phenominal. Better yet they have native mod support so if you get bored with the countless weapons and perks you can just download more. Perfect blend of fun mindless carnage and skill based mechanics. Hands down one of the best rougelites I've played. 10/10

Mar 17, 2026·21h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3525STEAMRecommended

Its a great sequel! I love the modding capabilities directly inside the game. I know basically nothing about coding, but I figured it out really easily.

Mar 17, 2026·39h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1326STEAMRecommended

Game doesn't start strong with no good tutorial, but given time scratches that Nuclear Throne type itch really well. I would recommend to anyone who likes the genre.

Mar 16, 2026·7h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7732STEAMRecommended

Knew this game was great when a mix of both the amazing soundtrack and the insane build I made at full volume actually blew out my headphones. 100% worth it, now I just need new headphones to fully enjoy the soundtrack again lmao. (turn the volume down at full build noted)

Mar 16, 2026·14h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7712STEAMRecommended

Unique little experiences just like the first game. Worth every penny. Can't wait to see what else they add.

Mar 16, 2026·21h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7997STEAMRecommended

Feels very much like the first Synthetik, though it's been a good while since I played it. Weapons feel very satisfying to use, and there are a lot of them.

I do hate the useless and annoyhing multiplayer focus though. Lobbies in main meny, flashing coop button, especially the chat box that cannot be hidden.. would probably just stick to the first game in retrospect.

Mar 16, 2026·25h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8520STEAMNot recommended

the coop session is so unstable atm its unplayable for me. even entering lobby is a hassle. gameplay is solid but the constant crashing and lobby problem made me gve up.... maybe yall need too wait this game out till dev do someting bout it.

Mar 16, 2026·6h·2·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2631STEAMNot recommended

The game is fun...

BUT i cant play online with friends because the online GUI is about 10 seconds behind i can hear the option go though but it takes too long to register and i constantly get kicked out of my own lobbys

Mar 16, 2026·1h·2·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3513STEAMRecommended

3D printed bullets taste good. Learning the ancient Tibetan art of explosively movement chaining myself Cross-map via demolishers explosives triggered by... demolishers explosives, has made me a better drunk driver, remember, its the drunk crashers you wanna look out for!

Mar 16, 2026·18h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1004STEAMRecommended

i put a lot of hours into D3 and MH2015 - this is as close as it gets to improving on the formula - progression kind of plateaus early, but you can unlock additional classes to keep things interesting - the base gameplay loop is enough to carry the game though, which says a great deal, especially in this day and age of triple A rated hypetrained dog excrement

Mar 15, 2026·43h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8372STEAMRecommended

fun game. why is there no conformation on the quit button accidentally lost a god run trying to open my settings

Mar 15, 2026·9h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9413STEAMNot recommended

These devs paid Sseth for a video, raked in a billion dollars, and will never finish this game. Year 5 of early access, and this is a sequel. This is basically DayZ 2.

Mar 15, 2026·5h·8·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7610STEAMRecommended

Writing at around update 19 when they are promising to have a 1.0 coming soon-ish. It is already extremely fun, weapons and powering up through the run is a blast, gun feel is phenomenal, but the UI can bug out quite easily (some tooltips not displaying) and every couple of hours you will run into a technical bug. However they are never fully game breaking (at least I didn't run into any) and the game itself is still extremely fun!

Mar 15, 2026·69h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4301STEAMRecommended

This game is beautiful but there are 2 issues with the current build and firstly is some bugs related to pickups and second is some bugs related to the coop not letting my buddies join a lobby sometimes

The game runs at lower than 120 fps on direct x12 even with dlss set to performance if you max out everything but AA at 4k but I hear the game runs better on dx11 so I will try that to test.

overall the merchants guild is eating good here, hey hey sseth people here.

Mar 15, 2026·11h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8279STEAMRecommended

Much improved since entering early access 5 years ago.

Feels like a proper successor to the first game.

Mar 15, 2026·27h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9043STEAMRecommended

Hey hey, People.
And all that. Like Sseth said, this game is finally on par with Synthetik 1. There's a lot of very good changes that were awful for new or casual players, like having activated items on automatic or having new options for the active reload and number placement.
My only cons are that the multiplayer works like ass and that some classes feel stupidly underpowered because the game is more oriented to co-op play and only a few clases have the power to go solo and have a chance to actually win.
However, the game still has some very notorious bugs, mostly in the system department where quests and quest objectives do not count or do not appear in-game. The rest are the typical roguelikes ones: too many things on screen doing too many things make the game go boom, but I haven't experienced the hard crashes some players have experienced.
Overall, I recommend this game, but my caveat is that I paid a price extremely low thanks to the normal discount plus the discount for owning Synthetik 1 and all the DLC.

Mar 15, 2026·14h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2260STEAMRecommended

It's a more polished version of the original experience. I don't know if I'd say it's strictly better, but if you enjoyed the first you'll enjoy this just as much if not moreso.

Mar 15, 2026·18h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1248STEAMRecommended

Has a lot of ground-breaking bugs. If you're able to ignore them it's a great game.

Mar 15, 2026·22h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0421STEAMRecommended

+aesthetics
+music
+gunplay

relaxing and entertaining.

Mar 15, 2026·17h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5005STEAMRecommended

軽くレビュー見た感じ、なんか面倒なゲームなんかなとか高難易度系なんかなと思ったけどめっちゃおもろい。
いや、めんどくて高難易度ではあるんだけどおもろい。
こういう系のゲーム苦手なんで本当にチマチマとしか進めないけどとりあえずアンロックをモチベにがんばる。
おもろい。

Mar 15, 2026·36h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3240STEAMNot recommended

Game is fine but in desperate need of a professional IT admins.
The servers will just randomly go down, or a dev will post in a discord channel that they're restarting them, leaving everybody unable to play.

CO-OP play relies on the servers being up for some reason, so it's a game-ruining issue. They need to keep the developers far the f%&k away from any production server infrastructure and hand it off to some separate team that knows how to handle that s*%t because I can't play the game.

Mar 15, 2026·4h·4·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6890STEAMRecommended

Seth was right again, this game is AMAZING.

Fun fact: only 6% of players have beaten the FIRST bosses (there are 3 variations, and each one also only has about 6% of players who managed to beat that version).

Just ignore most of the negative reviews — the game is excellent and really fun. It’s very different from the first game (which makes sense, since the first one is 2D isometric and this one is 3D).

Just buy it and have fun.

Mar 15, 2026·8h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8309STEAMRecommended

Lagged the game with a friend due to the sheer amount of bullets we unleashed... STILL NOT ENOUGH DAKKA!

Fun game even though a bit wonky here and there.

Mar 15, 2026·16h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9073STEAMRecommended

This game is really fun. Frantic action cool visuals and a generally enjoyable game loop.

Mar 15, 2026·1h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3805STEAMRecommended

한글과 중국어 일본어가 표시되지 않는현상을 디코체널에 리포트했고 작업중이라고 합니다
열심히 일하는 개발자에게 개추
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한글이 안나오면 게임을 어떻게 해요 ㅠㅠ 핫픽스 패치좀 해줘잉
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존나 멋있는 하이테크존윅
패드나 스팀덱으로도 편하게 즐길수있었다면 더 좋았을텐데

Mar 14, 2026·12h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0377STEAMNot recommended

What killed me? Ever. Wait to buy, coop is abysmal, some of the worst UI I've ever seen. just buy the first game, way better.

Mar 14, 2026·1h·3·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8555STEAMRecommended

If you liked Synthetic 1, or you're a fan of Enter the Gungeon and Nuclear Throne, then this game's for you. Very polished for early access and I wouldn't know the difference between this or full release. Soundtrack is all absolute bangers.

Mar 14, 2026·5h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6559STEAMRecommended

Druga część nietypowego i wciągającego rouguelike'a. Podobnie jak w pierwszej części tutaj również będziemy mieli do czynienia z szybką akcją, przeróżnymi ulepszeniami i bronią do wykorzystania. Dodatkowo w tej części pojawiły się nowe klasy postaci oraz możliwość gry w kooperacji nawet do 4 osób.

Ogólnie polecam.

Mar 14, 2026·16h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0205STEAMRecommended

Significant improvement over the original, highly recommend. All the weapons feels like they are worth something unlike the original where some just feels completely unusable. A bunch of QoL over the original as well.

Mar 14, 2026·6h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1884STEAMRecommended

if I judged this game off of the bad reviews. then I would think it's like everything else. it's not!!! The gun play element alone sets itself up to be a different. it has jamming mechanics to prevent bullet spamming. so you have to be aware of wasting bullets. reload mechanic (which is my least favorite but I respect the gameplay). in and out game progress, etc....

it's good gang

Mar 14, 2026·1h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5495STEAMRecommended

Improves on the original in every manner imaginable. It's prettier, more streamlined, more flexible and most of all, more fun and fair.

While the core gameplay loop in Synthetik 1 was already great, it lacked the consistency seen in many other great Roguelikes and you often ended up having runs that left you objectively underpowered through no fault of your own. This has been remedied and while there is still a reasonable amount of RNG in what enemies you face, what levels you have to play through and more importantly, what items, weapons and rarities you recieve, the player can now expect to find the necessary tools to clear a run every time, but he is left with the fun of building the necessary synergies and making the right decisions to enable these tools to enable a victory.

The classes play pretty different from eachother, even if your main interaction with the world remains "Shoot weapon". There are melee builds, summon builds and everything inbetween. This gets spiced up by a seizable cast of weapons and items which can come in different rarities and be modified with additional effects and stat changes. It never quite gets on the level of, say, a risk of rain 2 run, but it does mirror that cacaphony of item effects, synergies and positioning that make out the endgame in that one.

For an Early Access title this feels like a already very complete package, but I have only recently started playing it, so the long development time did understandably leave a sour note in some people's mouths. The performance can also vary depending on the amount of VFX or random memory leaks, but it stayed consisted for 95 % of my playtime. Lastly, some weapons feel redundant and not very fun to use. Expecting the devs to have all weapons balanced in Early Access is too much of course, but it doesn't change the fact that I die a little inside when I recieve a weapon that is conceptually cool on paper, but is not able to withstand the quick pace and relentless pressure the game throws at the player.

All in all, a great game that I can highly recommend for the price. Clean up the Main Menu UI, rework those godawful quests please god, crank the performance stability up to 100 % consistency and give me more toys (and maybe even classes) to play with for 1.0 and the game will have exceeded my expectations by a lot.

Mar 14, 2026·17h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4275STEAMRecommended

Went ahead and defeated the final boss on E3.

The only problems for me were the lack of weapon variety, and the amount of bugs. Here's hoping that the game surpasses the original SYNTHETIK.

Mar 14, 2026·24h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9318STEAMRecommended

I genuinely enjoy this game, but the UI is a bit on the clunky side. The reload/jam indicators being attached to your aim cursor during a high-intensity fight can get lost quite easily. I think it'd be much more practical for a brief, full-screen flash of 'JAMMED', 'EJECT', or 'RELOAD', or some other obvious indicator.

There are other issues relating to the UI in general. Some of the buttons have nonsensical bounding boxes when hovered over, and the mod browser is a bit of a kludge/last-second-addon at best. I don't experience the performance issues of my Windows brethren, owing to Proton/Vulkan, but my very first multiplayer experience resulted in a friend crashing at level 3 and being unable to rejoin.

I don't know if the devs read these reviews, but the UI sounds with pitch variations: Please, PLEASE give us an option to disable those.

Mar 14, 2026·24h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2442STEAMRecommended

I was expecting a roguelite/roguelike like all the rest out there, but somehow the gameplay turns fun and addictive, a lot of bugs but you get used to (co-op mode sometimes fail), totally playable on Steam Deck as well, it is a hidden gem.
You can play relax and test builds, and you can tryhard changing the difficult.
Main Comando here using parry! Worth the price!

Mar 14, 2026·26h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0624STEAMRecommended

Came here for a twin stick shooter and got some of the most compelling combat I have ever played in this genre. The sounds of the guns and abilities, along with the weight of impacts and shooting, creates a very satisfying experience and major dopamine hits. The classes all feel and play very differently but are very fun to experiment with while you find your play style. I love how differently you can approach battles; there’s such a high level of control. Things like positioning matter, and in the ways you usually see in FPS games.

I find this game better-suited for mouse and keyboard though. While you can kick back with a controller, I found that doing this game me less control and precision. While the movement feels great, aiming correctly isn’t as snappy as with the mouse, mainly because you must control how far your shot goes.

The game also has an active player base with open lobbies and mostly chill people. I’ve been playing solo but it’s neat to still have plenty of opportunities to join up quickly and easily.

Really satisfying mechanics and gunplay make this game a must buy if you are a fan of the twin sticks, strategic combat, and challenging but rewarding progression.

Mar 14, 2026·17h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2726STEAMRecommended

you can be very racist and generally Christian in the global chat, it is good, thank the african scizophrenic racist for advertising this game to me on youtube!

Mar 14, 2026·39h·5·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4059STEAMRecommended

Played the first Synthetik, bought this one shortly after. Overall a very good sequel with nice improvements over the first one. Minor performance hiccups here and there but generally good performance as someone playing from a 5 year old gaming laptop. Worth the purchase from me.

Mar 14, 2026·34h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4014STEAMRecommended

after five runs of taking out dozens of androids with riot shields i got killed by a roomba with a fat nuke taped to it

Mar 14, 2026·10h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2379STEAMRecommended

Sseth made a video, pirated the game, played for 20 hours, bought it
Great game, a lot of stuff is happening after some time, so your typical roguelike where the limit is how many slides per second your computer can survive with your broken build.
to memorise a moment from my gameplay: "you attacked yourself for 2000 (explosion, critical)". good run.

Mar 13, 2026·22h·16·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4396STEAMRecommended

Really sick and lots of depth, has caught up to the first game in terms of content and then some. Really cool new classes. Great environments.

Mar 13, 2026·26h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7047STEAMNot recommended

I cannot tell if I am just chained by nostalgia, but somehow this game does not feel like Synthetik-Legion rising. the gameplay seems similar enough, on a logical level, but maybe due to the UI, graphics or controlls, I just feel like I am playing a different game entirely, and not in a good way. I tried messing around with the settings, but it fixed nothing, and it feels a lot less intuitive than the previous game

I really hope that I am the exception, because then it means I just do not like a good game, rather than it not being that good, but since reviews are about one's personal opinion, I would say just play the first game instead of this one

Mar 13, 2026·1h·3·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0337STEAMRecommended

*Makes explosion, laser, guns noises while flailing and finger gunning*

Mar 13, 2026·57h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6255STEAMRecommended

very satisfying game play, especially for the price

Mar 13, 2026·27h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2814STEAMRecommended

Habe den Vorgänger sehr gemocht, und war anfangs skeptisch.
Ein paar Updates später sieht das Spiel schon besser aus.
Youtube hat mir gesagt, es gibt einen Sale und ich habe es geholt.

Hier bin ich nun.
Ehrlich gesagt, fühlt sich wie der erste Teil an.
Yoga machen wäre angebracht.

Persönlich für mich ist es ein perfektes Spiel.
Ein simples Prinzip, perfektioniert und abgerundet.
Ohne das komische Hub würde es mir besser gefallen.
Progress-Gefühl ist auch gegeben.
Lasst euch auf den Wahnsinn ein.
Einmaliges Erlebnis.

Mar 13, 2026·4h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7447STEAMRecommended

Super fun, seems about on par with the first game. Performance could use some work, but overall pretty solid.

Mar 13, 2026·4h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8517STEAMRecommended

This game is so janky, and still manages to be amazing. Once a build comes online its hilarity and ridiculousness to the nth degree.

Mar 13, 2026·14h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5115STEAMRecommended

12 hours for less than 2 days. This game is really fun, it got me out of depression

Mar 13, 2026·42h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9165STEAMRecommended

Some sort of combination of Diablo/Borderlands/Pain that is like eating spicey food for the first time. You ask yourself why did I do this, and then ask for seconds.

Thirds

4ths

Suddenly your recon is lvl 3 and drop laser mines when it kills things with head shots

Feel unstoppable

Reach the first boss

Realize you are incredibly stoppable.

Drop back in to show Skynet the what for

Mar 13, 2026·49h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7426STEAMNot recommended

Don't buy this game please.
As of now:
-multiplayer servers are laggy
-coop and private servers do not work at all
-game menus are also laggy and the ui is horrendous
-in game experience is also not good, there are some pretty glaring bugs, like first and second ability being permanently swapped in place, even if you rebind the keys

It is an unfinished product, the first part is much much better
and yeah, somehow it lags even on 5070ti, idk :(

Mar 13, 2026·8·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1607STEAMRecommended

這代爽度不輸一代
有沒有超越見仁見智
但是第二輪多週目所給的強化十分給力
讓人有繼續尻下去的動力
不像一代二週目都是被秒假的
這點有大加分

Mar 13, 2026·52h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8146STEAMRecommended

A very addictive just like the first game.
gun make cool noise, game makes cool noise, things go boom - all I wanted 10/10

Mar 13, 2026·10h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1712STEAMNot recommended

The difference between this and Synthetik 1 is still huge. This game is just worse in every way. I thought it would've been better by now, after years of early access. It's just a lot less fun, the enemies are kinda lame, visually it's pretty unclear, the items are both less in amount and fun.
And by god, whoever designed any of the UI in this game needs to be put into a quarry for the rest of their life, a more suitable carreer for them. It's so bad. The main menu makes me want to kill myself.
I also got chatbanned from global for no reason.

Mar 13, 2026·2h·9·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7169STEAMRecommended

Feels like a straight improvement from the first game by now. Once some more Quality of Life settings are included, some performance optimizations and features to continuously invest the in-game currencies with are added, this game will feel perfect, and it's not far from it.

Mar 12, 2026·36h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8988STEAMRecommended

waffen fühlen sich wuchtig an, steuerung geht voll klar, wie im ersten teil auch verschiedene spielstiele möglich.

das spiel ist schon seit 5 jahren draussen, bis jetzt keine bugs.
einzig die menüführung kann einen etwas kopfschmerzen bereiten, zuviele animationen, bunt und gequitsche, da hilft nur weniger ist mehr.

alles in allem, im angebot holen, cooles game.

Mar 12, 2026·15h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9620STEAMRecommended

Recomendado, si te gusto el primero este es un vicio tambien, espero sigan añadiendo cosas con las actualizaciones

Mar 12, 2026·28h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2123STEAMRecommended

Great game, if you like the first you will like the second. Unfortunately quite a bit of jank while playing multiplayer, chat randomly dying. Also chat has no filter, reminds me of warchat. Iz nice

Mar 12, 2026·26h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6774STEAMNot recommended

мультиплеер не работает в россии, не понимаю зачем нужно делать подключение к каким то отдельным серверам при steam p2p мультиплеере без возможности это как то выключить если играешь в приватном лобби с друзьями

Mar 12, 2026·6·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1878STEAMRecommended

If you have played the first game as much as me you WILL like the sequel, its just as fun as the first game and ads QoL fixes + the game is still (as of writting) being built out so a lot more content might get added.

Mar 12, 2026·18h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8775STEAMNot recommended

TLDR: Nowhere near as good as the first instalment so far. Get Synthetik 1 instead. If you want to check out Synthetik 2 wait until it is finished. Which it currently very much isn't.

As of March 2026 (after like 5+ years in early access) the performance optimization is absolutely horrendous. My machine is by no means bad, but most of the time this game runs at 20ish FPS. Certain environments drag it down to below 10.
Class balance is non-existent. Some have it easy and consistent, others are pretty much doomed by design. Not much else to say here.
Customization looks pretty good at first glance with tons of items, weapons, and upgrades. But where certain weapon/upgrade and item combinations in Synthetik 1 could turn you into an ungodly engine of destruction, you won't reach that state in this game. Turning anything into something good via upgrades is, let's say difficult, while on the other hand it's very easy to completely ruin your stuff by choosing bad upgrades.
Interactions between the various items, weapons, upgrades, enemies, statuses etc are very opaque. This is especially bad if you have a piece of equipment that you really like, you upgrade it, and suddenly it sucks because it's cooldown went up by 40 seconds. For completely unexplained reasons. I'm not even sure if that's a feature or a bug.

In a vacuum, this game is decently fun to play if you can look past it's many, many, many, many flaws. Rating would be a solid Meh! out of five. If you haven't played the first one, I'd recommend getting that one instead. If you really want to play this one wait until it gets a deep discount.
And compared to Synthetik 1 it's a gigantic disappointment. Most of what made the first game so incredibly fun and replayable is missing here. Which is, sadly, by design. The lead designer has his head pretty far up his own rear end and over the course of early access so far has implemented a lot of features which got such bad community feedback he had to roll them back. I am under the impression that a better Synthetik 1 isn't even the design goal. Instead S2 wants to be something else, more marginally related than being a direct successor. This doesn't have to be a bad thing necessarily, but what it wants to be so far has turned out to be garbage.

Mar 12, 2026·280h·9·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5884STEAMNot recommended

Very unstable. It has permadeath and does not have a good save system. The game is incredibly laggy and there are frequent freezes when opening menus - particularly ones you frequently check, like the minimap or item screen. I had done about 4-5 loops in the game with an incredible run. Leveled up my class 5 times, had an astronomically powerful build that could kill anything and I could never die. Tried modding a gun and the game hard crashed to desktop without an error. I had to restart my PC to be able to launch the game again. Once I was back in, all the progress I gained over 2 and a half hours was gone. This has been an issue for at least a couple years now and has been reported on their forums. I wish I could recommend it, since it scratches a good itch, but wait until they fix the performance issues.

Mar 12, 2026·57h·19·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1464STEAMNot recommended

Expecting a working Coop in 2026 shouldn't be a Herculean task, sure I use a mobile hotspot to game because I live in the middle of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nowhere. But you know which games haven't randomly disconnected me saying "Unable to connect to host for longer than 3 seconds" every other multiplayer game I own. Sure I have some connection hiccups but a P2P system should allow room to have you not get insta kicked and attempt to reconnect.

Mar 12, 2026·2h·3·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6375STEAMNot recommended

Inferior to the first game, hud icons clip into each other at 3440 1440, settings are still buggy 5 years after launch, can't type in global chat.

Mar 12, 2026·1h·5·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7245STEAMRecommended

I initially had a problem where the game would freeze every time I tried to start it. I spent more than an hour troubleshooting — reinstalling the game, clearing save files, updating GPU drivers, disabling cloud saves, and trying DX12 — but nothing worked at the time.

The developers actually replied to my comment and fixed the issue in a recent patch. It’s rare to see a development team that is this committed and openly communicative with the community.

Now the game runs normally on my system, and I can finally enjoy it as intended. I can confidently say it’s an awesome game.

There are still a few things I personally prefer about the first game, but this one is excellent as well and definitely worth playing.

Mar 12, 2026·8h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3310STEAMRecommended

Если вы не стример, включите в настройках пункт Content ID, иначе не услышите половины замечательных треков игры

Mar 11, 2026·78h·6·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8588STEAMRecommended

Yes, Seth is correct, this is a good game and I highly recommend playing it if you enjoy shooting roguelikes.

Mar 11, 2026·176h·317·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4733STEAMRecommended

playing engineer is like going to the casino but instead of losing money when you lose a bet you pull out a gun and spill your brains all over the blackjack table.

Mar 11, 2026·16h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1312STEAMRecommended

Dans la continuité du premier. Excellent, à prendre sans hésiter ne serait-ce que pour la qualité du travail accompli par les devs !

Mar 11, 2026·25h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0224STEAMRecommended

It's like the original, but bigger and better. Absolutely fantastic game.

Mar 11, 2026·8h·5·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9852STEAMRecommended

The goat has done it again. Synthetik 2 is literally everything that Synthetik one was, but on steroids. More robots, more explosions, everything in 3D now and updates are still dropping regularly.

Mar 11, 2026·42h·20·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7050STEAMNot recommended

Game crashing on menu, couldn't find a solution in the discord, refunded.

My computer is a Ryzen 5, rx6600 and a 16gb ram, wouldn't recommend.

Mar 11, 2026·3·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6748STEAMRecommended

The game is divine. Good. It can be even more hectic than Synthetik 1, depending on the kind of escalation you choose. It's less RNG dependent, but still satisfying for gamblers. Good stuff.

Mar 11, 2026·126h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3572STEAMRecommended

Мощнейший шутер-рогалик!
Оружие радует разнообразием - уйма автоматов, пистолетов и винтовок, метатель дисков, гарпун, лазер, нейлер... - все играются по-своему.
Выбор класса подталкивает менять тактику, иногда казалось бы незначительная деталь абилки влияет на ведение боя.
Перезарядка - важная и увлекательная часть геймплея, лишний раз подумаешь прежде чем стрелять в стену.
Прокачка во время забега радует, если ты молодец и всё удачно сложилось. Ну или взгрустнёшь бывало когда не туда прокачался и тебя дамажит от собственных выстрелов.
Отличная графика, музыка и звуки (знаете, этот звук падающих гильз в тишине когда жуткий замес только закончился и перегретая пушка остывает)

В общем, в бой! Андроиды не пройдут!

Mar 11, 2026·192h·2·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4181STEAMRecommended

Its been a long development cycle, but its in a good place.
Very close to the greatness of the original with more updates to come.

Mar 11, 2026·65h·5·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7531STEAMNot recommended

game is wonderful!
i have been softlocked 6 times in time played.
the game literally just stops responding to the mouse and keyboard, CHAT SOMEHOW WORKS YAY AMAZING i wish i could HIDE IT

Mar 11, 2026·11h·3·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1167STEAMRecommended

Waited until U20, locked in Heavy Gunner, found myself a nailgun that was made by a manufacturer that increases fire rate and was also inherently modified to allow enemies to drop their lunch on death every once in a while.

With this and more personal modifications, I destroyed machine god.

Takes some getting used to the switch in graphics, but I have enjoyed the game quite a bit and feel like it won't be long before I prefer it over the first.

Mar 11, 2026·11h·8·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7495STEAMRecommended

I love this game! Been playing since the early day of the first game and been playing SYNTHETIK 2 on and off since early access started for some hours basically every update. The game feels like it is in a very good state right now, it has real fun gunplay, great sounds, and cool game play loop. Just a lot of fun to play really and feels satisfying! Also the game is really cheap and the devs are cool and responsive to the community as well

Mar 11, 2026·175h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5908STEAMRecommended

WELL WELL WELL! What can I say, SYNTHETIK 2 is one of the most satisfying tactical shooters I’ve played
in a LONG time!
The gunplay is incredibly punchy and mechanical, every reload, recoil, and weapon feels GOOD!
What makes it stand out for me is the depth of the systems, the variety, upgrades and rogue-lite progression make every run feel different.
When everything clicks and you survive a brutal fight, it’s ridiculously satisfying!

If you enjoy games like Hades, Risk of Rain, or tactical shooters where skill actually matters, this is absolutely worth trying.

Still evolving in early access, but already a very unique and intense experience.

Mar 10, 2026·2h·6·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4045STEAMNot recommended

It barely works nowadays. I get it, the game is early access, but for several updates we can't even play co-op with my friend anymore - the main menu barely works and the connection breaks 100% of the time.

Mar 10, 2026·169h·12·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5722STEAMNot recommended

SYNTHETIK 2 has been in Early Access for four and a half years--and, in case you're reading the Store Page as of March 7, 2026, planned for its full release in 2025.

I believe there are some fundamental design changes to Synthetik 2 that make me doubtful it will ever be as good as the original, and (at least to me) they are surprising; on the surface they seem to be like obvious, quality of life improvements.

There are less active items, and less items in general. Recycling items, generally, provides a wider pool of bonuses to encourage more selective and careful playstyles. Weapon repair kits no longer take one of these slots, either. I believe this was to help make Synthetik 2 a bit more accessible than the original. Even with hundreds of hours, my winrate still never rose above 10% in the first game, and this in most games would be an obvious negative.

All characters are fully rendered with 3D models now, which *should* be a major upgrade to the visual design and clarity of the game. They have real animations for all movements and actions. The perspective has been shifted slightly to allow for this depth to be better seen and understood.

The game seems, generally, more balanced. In the original, ~70% of the weapons and skills were essentially worthless beyond the first few floors, which made finding competitive and run-deciding items very difficult. I believe the goal of consistency was, like most other changes, to make winning easier and more consistent.

Level designs are much more consistent. I no longer find myself going two acts without seeing the shop I need, and I pretty consistently see a shop every second floor. This should, in theory, make the game less frustrating. No more dying with 9999 credits.

SYTHETIK was lightning in a bottle from a development team's first project. I believe the constraints they were bound to economically and professionally displayed a lot of ingenious creativity and artistry that is, despite all of its brutality, unfairness, and incompleteness, an exceptional and unique experience.

I feel like, in making SYNTHETIK 2's design language more modern and fundamentally capable, something deep and indescribable has been lost.

I no longer feel like I'm moving so fast I break things, nor do I ever feel like I'm clawing at the edges of life with every corner I pass. The entire experience has entered a flow-state tedium in which I am not using my brain beyond aiming my cursor and traversing map obstacles. I have so few items that I never feel mentally tasked or worried about prioritizing tasks. The magic has been lost in translation.

I still do not enjoy playing this game very much, and I have tried to dig into it several times over its almost 5-year development cycle. While I don't recommend SYNTHETIK 2, I still recommend the original to those curious enough to read my ramblings.

Mar 7, 2026·8h·294·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6346STEAMNot recommended

Game seems cool but is pretty buggy. Data drops appear to be bugged and the upgrades won't upgrade half the time when you click the button. Many of the guns, I assume in the effort to make their handling more unique, ended up just kinda unpleasant to use (looking at you, grenade launcher that I have to hold the mouse to fire on a semi auto gun that doesn't even feel that powerful). Soundtrack also seriously lags behind Synthetik 1. Enemy AI is more varied and is an overall improvement, though the dogs need to be changed so they don't just glue to your body and instakill you.

Tldr; The game is promising but needs more time to cook. (And I will update my review once it's improved)

Mar 5, 2026·5h·2·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6546STEAMRecommended

ROUGE, ROGUE, COMMANDO, RDY, RDY, RDY.

Jokes aside great game, played the heck out of the first one and really enjoy the progress being made on this game

Feb 28, 2026·6h·10·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6667STEAMNot recommended

Go buy the first game. Most things about this game are so much worse. It's just not as fun.

Feb 26, 2026·28h·5·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5231STEAMRecommended

Oh dear lord it burns so good. Like spicy food you want to crank it to the max. But a few possible suggestions: bind your Item 2 to something on the mouse, you need those abilities and reaching up to hit 1 is tricky. A gaming mouse probably helps, but the autocast feature helps so much when you're juggling 4 other active items. Second suggestion, once you find a class you like, go crank it to escalation 3 and play at full difficulty features. Then enjoy dying. And dying. And dying. but eventually it will start to click. And the next thing you know you've chained a rocket jump into an explosive kick, and then lured the rest of a patrol into the seismic reverb explosion, before rocket jumping out of an attack to bounce around a corner and unload a full auto shotgun into a shield drone. It's glorious rocket tag action, but with a great movement and power system. Don't be afraid to play around and try all the classes, a lot of them I still can't get past a few patrols. But eventually you'll find a few that click and you'll be defeating the first boss.

Yeah, I still got a ways to go =D

Feb 22, 2026·43h·6·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9590STEAMRecommended

Great game, it might lag on lowend deviced unlike the first game.

Feb 22, 2026·9h·2·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4966STEAMRecommended

Honestly, after clearing the first end boss, this game might even be better than the first one. I know there are still many bugs (especially UI-related ones), but the core gameplay — which was already proven in the first game — goes exceptionally hard in this one. The guns sound orgasmic, and the hit feedback feels meaty and devastating. There is also much room for experimenting with characters and starting loadouts.

I played it co-op with a friend, which might actually be how this game is intended to be experienced.

Normally, I don’t hand out positive reviews for Early Access titles, but I just can’t get over how strong this foundation already is.

For the devs: Fixing the QoL features would very likely push this game to an “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating on Steam. Just add more variety and let players go crazy — even crazier guns and gadgets.

I would also love to see some secrets to uncover, like secret stages, characters, or alternative ways to progress to a different end boss, similar to Risk of Rain or The Binding of Isaac.

So far, this game absolutely delivers. If you’re considering buying it, I would definitely give it a go. I hope the developers keep working on it so I can recommend it to even more people!

Feb 21, 2026·35h·34·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5845STEAMRecommended

THIS GAME IS GOOD

After playing SYNTHETIK, SYNTHETIK 2 is a great successor to the first game. It changes the visuals for something new and different that really does compliment the genre well. The weapons feel good.

An interesting change that I noticed was the difficulty. SYNTHETIK 1's difficulty was incredibly unforgiving. In SYNTHETIK 2, I think on the second or third run with a friend, we got all the way to Armageddon and completed it. I guess that is par for the course considering this game runs on RNG, though I am sad that it didn't last as long as it did in the first SYNTHETIK to get all the way to the end. I'm not upset by that, just surprised. I was half expecting to slam my head into a brick wall for the next two months attempting to get there.

The next couple rounds went exactly back to slamming my head into a wall so all is right with the world.

Feb 18, 2026·12h·2·Verified·Early Access

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