Synonymy

amazing game

Great game for who is studying English for the second language. Synonymy is a way to understand the connection between words and meanings.

Was really hopeful for this, but didn't enjoy it at all. Seems rather broken as well, with words just not making sense as to how they link up. The tutorial doesn't help you learn how to play well.

There's also no narration, so I don't know why it says it's narrated by Richard Dawkins.

An interesting idea, but very roughly executed. The only positive side is Dawkins' voice.

The UI is so bad that I can't even play it. The game has no options menu as far as I can tell. It has no way to save and exit as far as I can tell. The crazy part is "as far as I can tell", there's no way to tell what the commands are except to button mash. It doesn't even respond to the escape button! This game is clearly just an auto-fellatio of it's creators, who clearly thought they had a sudden stroke of genius by getting involved in an art form they very apparently had no business in. At least consider the possibility that your audience might want to be able to view fullscreen!!! For so much brainpower that supposedly went into this project, I see no evidence of it.

I don't know how people disliked it, maybe because it's a new idea. This is a philosophical learning experience in the best enjoyable way.

Back in its day, Synonymy was an interesting word game concept with a clunky UI that put form before function.

Today, it is also a game that you can play for a while until it gets stuck trying to submit your new high score to the leaderboard servers that are long gone, at which point you can only force-close the game.

Don't spend your money on this.

Didn't like it.

The gameplay is kinda confusing, and the controls and navigation are hard to use. There was also a daily/weekly/whatever challenge before I even got to the tutorial about how tf to play the game. (Also there's no options to make the game smaller than full screen.)

The premise is simple: using synonyms of varying abstraction, navigate from your starting word to the target word. Execution, however can prove to be quite challenging. The difficulty level, completion speed, and number of sysonyms used factor into your score for each round. Scores are submitted to the game's website. The definition of each word is available after being selected and multiple pages of synonyms are available for each word. A mode is available to challenge your friends with rounds you have completed to see how they fare.

The only problem I have had with the game is the native resolution. The game is expecting 1920 x 1080 or higher. The game does load in a window that can be resized which makes it a minor annoyance at the worst.

I like the game. Some say it feels like work, but I like the sense of accomplishment I get from finishing games with short times and high difficulty. Its definitely not for everyone, but I love reading and get the gist of the levels pretty quickly. I can understand the frustration and boredom some may experience, but its a nice time filler when I don't have time to get into another, action packed game.

As you can see, I've almost 70 hours accrued, and very little of that has been afk.

This feels like work. Maybe one of the least fun games I've played. The interface is a very poor port from the smartphone game it started as, which, frankly, isn't very good to begin with (the sound of swiping between pages of synonyms gets grating very quickly, and with no options to turn it off, it really seems almost designed to keep people from playing it). Technical complaints aside, I don't know if this is inherently fun. It feels like a very poorly designed version of Scategories or something.

This game is interesting! I love the concept of taking two totally unrelated words and connecting them through synonyms. Unfortunately, that idea isn't executed as thoroughly as it could (and maybe should) be. What I mean is when you're choosing synonyms, you only have a handful of choices, rather than the entire gamut of synonyms for a particular word. I can only think this was done to make the game simpler, but why would a game dev ever think that'd be a good idea? Laziness? Pretension? Who knows!
This game is already niche, so cater to it & make it complex! ALAS!

THAT SAID... Synonymy is a fun little brain game, especially if you're a language person, & especially if it's on sale, but don't expect too much.

Synonymy. The game where you start with one word, and choose a string a words through related meanings to get at the final goal word. Six degrees of separation, thesaurus style.

Was it a bad decision to drop out of highschool? Play this game and find out.

This is a great concept, but the game as it is leaves me with a nagging impression that the people who developed don't actually speak English. There are a great number of highly questionable "synonyms".

Furthermore, the display seems to have a frustrating tendency to glitch out

Lastly the claim that the game is narrated by Richard Dawkins is patently false as there is no narration.

I can't recommend this game. It's true that I'm not exactly english for a start, so playing an english-based word game is tricky, but it doesn't matter, really. That game fails to do what it claims to do in the first place.

The rules are simple : you're given a target word (say "Silence"), and given a starting word (say "Crash"), and a cloud of synonyms you can pick from. The goal is to get closer and closer to the target word by picking the right words from the words cloud. The thing is, there's not only synonyms in the cloud, but also antonyms, sometimes just analog terms (otherwise you wouldn't get very far)... but not always.

So for example starting with "Crash", goind towards "Silence" you could expect to go through "Crack", then "Noise" or "Sound", and then choose the antonym "Silence"... but only IF the game knows that "Silence" is an antonym of "Noise". but when you get, for exempale, to the word "Real" you can choose "Lawful"... and also "Unlawful", but can't pick "Silence" out of "Noise".

And there you have it : this game is not about knowing your english, it's about guessing what words are linked with what other words in the game's database. And without knowing what dictionary it was built onto, there's NO WAY you could play this game properly.

This is more a data mesh exploration game than a word game. Therefore it is pretty bad. I know it's cheap, but that doesn't make it any better

The app is so broken and frustrating that it's not worth trying. No full screen mode, no settings, incredibly annoying audio, and the display doesn't even render at the correct aspect ratio unless you manually tweak the window to exactly the right size.

The window popped up mostly off the screen, and it was too large for my 1080p display. I went to try to find the settings for this but there don't seem to be any. Clicking around left me very frustrated as there's a long & terribly annoying noise that plays every time you click something. The UI metaphors are completely nonstandard and both confusing and clunky.

I finally figured out that the only option is to play in a window that you have manually resized so that the content area of the window has exactly the right aspect ratio. I don't think these issues are because of bugs: it's just because they weren't trying and/or have no clue about modern UI conventions.

So I'm taking the rather extreme position that this isn't worth trying just because the interface and rendering engine is so terrible. It really should have just been a browser application: there's nothing here that requires a native application: running this in a browser would have made it work *much* better.

Supprisingly delightful. If you're a fan of word-based puzzle games, especially old fashioned ones (lookn at you crossword people, you bogglers and scrabblers of words) you will likely enjoy this game. For the price, not much of question even if your not a huge fan; even going a few rounds will get your money's worth.

Here's the main problem: There's absolutely no reason to get this game on Steam rather then it's mobile port. No upgrades versus resolution or added features.

While the word games you can find online are reasonable, this one does stand out, I just can't honestly recommend it for Steam. But the gameplay makes you think, and is a change up of some concepts.

For more gameplay and information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrZ0HqSUEW8&feature=youtu.be&a

Synonymy is a game where you are given a starting word and you have to travel trough synonyms of synonyms trying to reach the goal word that you are also given at the start.

The game has a difficulty selection, making it enjoyable to people of all ages. The easiest difficulty usually gives you very common words, where the paths are more obvious. But on the hardest difficulty, the words start to be a little more complex, not so common, making it challenging for older people. Since you can see the definition of every single word it's a very educational game - even for adults - you may learn a word or two that you didn't know before, specially on the harder difficulty settings.

You probably won't play this game for hours and hours in a row but rather on short bursts of time several times.

The game also features "seeds" (or pass-codes), a 5 character code that you and your friends can enter on the beginning of the game to ensure you have the same starting word and goal. That way you can compare your scores at the end.
There's also a global leaderboard, where you can see the the score, starting and goal words of the most recently played games around the world, along with its pass-code in case you want to try the same challenge by yourself.

I absolutely recommend it. It is very cheap too. Get it.

This game brings up the concept of say, 7 steps to kevin bacon and the wiki walk. The goal is simple, get from one word to another. But you'll find it quite a mental challenge. Really fun to play as well.

An interesting puzzle game that varies in difficulty during your seemingly randomly generated paths throught the pages of the virtual thesarus.

Recommended for people who want to challenge their brain for a moment. Game can get tedious if you find yourself lost, but there are audio ques that help guide you in the right direction.

If you are bored easily, there isn't much else to get you to invest time in the game. It's basically flipping through words until you find a word that you need. Not much in terms of gameplay, but entertaining nevertheless for those who want a mental excercise.

The price is extremely cheap, $2 at the time of writing, so you aren't missing much after purchasing. Might as well, you or a family member might enjoy it! There is a multiplayer aspect that is explained in the trailer, and it's entertaining.