Frozen Synapse on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.

Frozen Synapse is a strategy, turn-based and tactical game developed and published by Mode 7.
Released on May 26th 2011 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 2,595 reviews of which 2,146 were positive and 449 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7
  • Processor: 1.6 GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Graphics: Netbook integrated graphics
  • DirectX®:
  • Hard Drive: 220 MB
  • Sound:
MacOS
  • OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
  • Processor: 1GHZ PowerPC (or Intel)
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Graphics:
  • Hard Drive: 220 MB
  • Sound:

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March 2025
How to describe this game? Frozen Synapse is a real time squad combat game where time is irrelevant to you, It only matters to your squad. You can spend hours planning the next five second time segment and STILL get it horribly wrong. "should have held the angle for 0.9 seconds longer" "should have bounced the grenade off the OTHER wall" "should have told the machine gunner to ignore the rocket and focus the sniper" There is nothing quite like it.
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Dec. 2024
It's a really cool strategy game that plays async.
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Sept. 2024
It's good, but you have to want to play this kind of puzzle game. I just end up accidentally speedrunning losing all my guys in the first 3 seconds (literally). Some really dated menu and option systems, I don't even know if you can change parameters for the quick skirmishes. There's a story campaign and the writing actually seems really interesting but I'm not good enough at the game to experience it.
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Aug. 2024
Awesome game, created the entire genre that is now popularized by titles like Breach & Clear, Breach & Clear: Deadline, and No Plan B. Excellent, strategic gameplay, an incredible amount of ways for each level to play out, a high skill ceiling, you can be as intricate, well thought out, and professional as you want to be here, as you're given every action and tool you need to lay out your best plans, check your corners, and take the shots. Highly recommended, even after all this time.
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May 2024
Classic tactics game with great atmosphere
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Frozen Synapse
8.0
2,146
449
Online players
2
Developer
Mode 7
Publisher
Mode 7
Release 26 May 2011
Platforms