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what a steaming pile of do do this old game is..

Goated and addicting style of survival game. Needs a sequel that dives into the learning mechanic.

It's a good game, a very good game yes. Just don't get attached to the little people or else you'll cry like I did when they eventually die :(. I can't tell if it's because I constantly have this game on 2x because 1x is so genuinely so slow but it it tends to get cold really easily and the wood to make the base warmer goes out so quick. Its kinda annoying because my little people die of cold so quick :(. But it is a geniunely good game. Unsettling at times, so the fact that I play this game at night most of the time does not help with that effect. 8/10 game!!

It's a 2D game with simple graphics and simple controls, yet still has somewhat of an intriguing story line. It challenges your management skills, so if you like management, organisation type of games with some strategy to it, I definitely recommend this game. You can finish it in 1-4 days, depending on how much you play. I, personally, finished it in 2, and then started over for the rest of the achievements, just to get them all.

It takes a couple of plays to get the feel for gathering the necessary resources but once you realize what gives the best profit and needs the most focus the end is easier to reach.
There is nothing wrong in failing and starting over as each new round gives you more knowledge.
Ive really enjoyed my 8 hours in this game and beside the goal of completing the game i was very compelled to go for the achievements aswel (which are fairly easy by just playing the game already)

The story itself is cute aswel and it doesnt feel to odd of a location to have ended up in.

If you enjoy survival puzzles, a bit of tactic and time management you got to try this game. Its worth your evening.

Pretty fun. I would only recommend buying this if it's on special, OR, if you absolutely need to, you can return it after playing. I completed the story in about 1h45 so you can probably refund it if you so choose.
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EDIT: after reading other reviews, I noticed people complaining about dying. Absolutely a skill issue.

So my highly trained astronauts aren´t smart enough to go and heal OR eat if I don´t tell them to? Realy? Even a 10 yr old could get food when hungry but these guys would rather just die...

Please scale down the micromanagement... this isn´t very fun...

If there was less useless micromanagement like feeding crew and healing them manually this game would be fun...

Fun little game. Very simple and short IF you play well. It really tests your management skills and ability to multitask and think ahead. Pretty cool, short little story.

This game is simply micromanaging an increasing amount of people doing repetitive tasks without a save feature.
And I mean that in the most positive way!
It reminds me of the survival aspects of FrostPunk and Sheltered combined - both of which I heavily recommend as well!

If you want 3 hours of story + endless mode of sweet atmosphere and some really nice but simple visuals for like 10 bucks, this is your game.

1) stupid ai(u have to tell them to eat or they die and more)
2) bad hud(its so bad that its useless) + slow scrolling
3) tons of text u never read because u are busy to keep them alive(not easy because point 1 and 2)

i got it for under 2€ in sale and and its worth it

its an easy game but the controls make it very very hardcore

there are better browsergames out there

i cant say its bad but ...

I really enjoyed this game. Some may not enjoy the high level of difficulty but it goes a long way to create a tense and unforgiving atmosphere. I also felt a great surge of satisfaction once I finally beat it and got all of the achievements.

TL;DR: If you want to play a broken, grindy version of Sheltered at least buy it when it's less than $5.00
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If you are interested in this game, wait for a sale price of less than $5. I was able to get it for $2.99, which I really can't complain about.

I was looking for a new survival/strategy sim and Symmetry caught my eye for reminding me a bit of Sheltered. However, after a pretty short amount of time I saw why this game had such mixed reviews.

The story itself is pretty weak. It started off being interesting, but lost its appeal pretty quickly. The gameplay is set up to be there, but just isn't there. Once you get past ~day 10, it is just a monotonous, grindy experience of just accumulating circuits to upgrade your reserve pools and work towards fixing the rocket. The difficulty is annoying but manageable; I know it used to be a lot worse before the devs patched it. However, it requires really minute micromanaging. Plus the rate at which things break is annoying, mostly because it just means a cost of more circuitry, which just means more grinding.

Also, there are a lot of bugs. I had characters just vanish on two playthroughs. This is frustrating because the game already requires a lot of attention to survive, and there is a chance for your characters to just walk off screen and die anyways.

I've been playing the game for several hours and I'm going to disagree with most of the other reviews complaining about the game's difficulty — I don't think it's much more difficult than other examples of the genre (Sheltered comes most immediately to my mind as a good comparison) and I'm enjoying it. I only had to restart once and it was my own fault (forgot to actually pause the game when I walked away briefly and came back to deaths) but on the whole once you realise how balancing the vital stats works, it's easy to find an equilibrium. Besides some slight translation weirdness, the story seems interesting enough to want to see more. The art style is also very, very interesting. I would definitely recommend Symmetry if you're a fan of similar games in the survival genre.

This game is about one thing: making sure your characters don't commit suicide by stupidity.

There's an apparent level of complexity at first: you have to train your characters to maximize how many resources they gather, and then subdivide them between different tasks. But most problems this game presents aren't that difficult. You max out characters' skills in whatever task they'll be performing, then never worry about that mechanic again. You set one person to gather lumber a million times in a row, and then never worry unless that counter gets low. You set one person to gather food, but no character gets hungry that often and its never hard to make more food. So the only thing you actually care about is gathering electrowaste, which is the resource you need to accumulate to win.


The grind for electowaste is painfully slow and unsatisfactory, made even worse by the fact that you have to spend it on the constant repairs that get more expensive throughout the game. If you lose a single person, you fall behind, and your entire game can come grinding to a halt as the difficulty curve only rises. So how do you loose someone?

It's always weather exposure. Characters have to walk a long way to reach resources, which gets longer as the game goes on, and that depletes their health, which you need to send them to a healing pod to restore. You have to do it manually, every time, and by about mid game you have to do it every time a character returns to the ship. If you don't, THE CHARACTER WALKS DIRECTLY INTO THEIR DEATH.

This is what makes the game infuriating. If you don't constantly babysit the characters, they will walk out into a snowstorm with a quarter health and kill themselves. The worst part is, even if you just set them to eat food or something instead of healing up, they automatically resume their main tasks, which means you constantly have to check if they are trying to kill themselves again. On top of all of this, the UI, while pretty, is clearly designed to make it even harder to track your characters.

While this game advertises itself as a challenge, it's a challenge a solve with a simple script. If you could program each character to rest up every time they're about to go outside, the player would barely have to pay attention to this game to win every time. Instead, the designers of this game intentionally limited what the player could do in order to create a mind-numbingly frustrating micromanagement experience.

This game has a cool concept and cool art, I just wish it had real gameplay to go along with that.

===[ ❤ Audience: ]===
☐ Kids
☐ Everyone
☑ Casual players
☑ Pro players

===[ ☼ Graphics: ]===
☐ Potato
☐ Really bad
☐ Bad
☐ OK
☑ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Masterpiece

===[ $ Price/quality: ]===
☐ Full price
☐ Wait for sale
☑ Average
☐ Refund it if you can
☐ Don't do it
☐ Free

===[ ☢ Requirments: ]===
☐ 90' PC
☐ Minimum
☑ Medium
☐ Fast
☐ High end
☐ NASA computer

===[ ☼ Difficulty: ]===
☐ You just need 2 arms
☐ Ez
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Hard
☐ Dark Souls


===[ ۞ Game time/length ]===
☑ Really short ( 0 - 2 hours)
☐ Short ( 2 - 8 hours)
☐ Few hours ( 8 - 12 hours)
☐ Long ( 12+ hours)
☑ Endless

===[ ⌬ Story] ===
☐ It doesn't have
☐ Still better than Twilight
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Fantastic

===[ § Bugs ]===
☐ Game itself is one big BUG
☐ Bugs destroying the game
☐ Lot of bugs
☐ Few Bugs
☐ You can use them for speedrun
☑ Nothing

===[ ♬ Sound/Music] ===
☐ Atmosphere is there
☑ For every action
☐ Too much music
☐ it only turns away

===[ ✦ Others: ]===
Multiplayer: NO
Singleplayer: YES

where's my entertainment?

all this game about is micromanaging your resources there's really not much more
I couldnt even keep up with the story as im panicing with my crew dying going outside with -80 degree temperature

First try!

Love these kind of games - the "mixed reviews" status was perfect bait for me since I knew this was going to be challenging. To succeed here you need to think. What action will yield the best outcome in the current situation? Do I need to prioritize one char over the other or teach them how to do the same job? Do I have enough resources to sustain the base? Once you have your mind constantly focused in a sort of rythmic pattern, you'll fly through the game. The story lingering above (wink) will keep you invested even though the writing is pretty weak. Think, 2001: ASO but tweaked.

Overall, I thorougly enjoyed this (hard mode should be even more up my alley!) and I'd recommend anyone wanting to tease their brain yet have fun figuring out the post-apocalyptic world you're on, to have a stab at this game.

This game is for hardcore survivalists and those who know how to strategize. I personally love strategy games, and did not have too much trouble beating the game on my first try. I thoroughly enjoyed the mysterious and creepy aspect of the game. I will more than likely play the game again just to get all the achievements. It was a great experience and I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes a challenge. The main thing to remember is to always check your resources. Also, do not be ashamed to click pause to get your bearings. Happy gaming everyone!

=== Devs updated game in response, I will update once I get a change to play update ===

This is a hard pass for now guys. This is at best a guided narrative during which you're just supposed to keep your people alive. Fair enough, I got to day ~35 twice now and the weather gets so bad and your people have to travel so long that they don't make it back before night hits and they die. Things are scripted to break constantly without any reason. At this point the only way I can think of winning is to ignore all logic and not get firewood or upgrade anything but just gather repair parts. This game was fairly cool till you hit a wall and it just ends up being a slow death. I would refund but I've played too much for that so I just hope the devs figure their shit out.

This is a mildly interesting time management game. It's not bad and the price is probably right for what it is, but it's not good either. It doesn't really break new ground and it does things that other games have already done better.

Here are other games you could try instead:

1) This war of mine (Survival as civilians in a warzone with difficult moral choices and consequences)
2) Sheltered (Survival as a family living in a bunker/shelter in a post-apocalyptic world)
3) Gods will be watching (Not the best one here, but nevertheless an interesting take on survival in different scenarios)

The games above have better interfaces, more in depth gameplay, and is generally more immersive in engaging you as a player and making you care about the characters.

The idea of ​​the game is cool. The graphics pleases. If you are a Hardcore Survivor, then you find the right game. Nevertheless, what could be more interesting than surviving on an unknown planet.
In fact, in the beginning there is a some types of supplies, in order to improve the base; food, to feed the team; firewood - to warm the shelter. But over time, it's boring. In two hours of the game, you're doing the same thing, there's no differnce, just a clicker (kind of). The resources near the end will be not enough, you have to go far from the base (and at minus 45 - minus 65), the characters go back to the base and if they do not send them to the dock station in time, they die), the air temperature gradually decreases (if at the beginning it was 20, now the minimum is -45).
The game becomes complicated, so much that the desire to play disappears. Constantly everything breaks (so that you know with every minute the breakdown is becoming more frequent) all that is on the base, so that you do not have time to replenish resources. As a result, by the end of the game, I had 4 characters running for spare parts, and one for firewood.
Even Dark Souls 2 was not that difficult..
My rating is 5 out of 10


Не спорю, задумка игры крутая. Радует графика и концепуия игры. Если вы крутой выжывальщик, то Вам сюда. Тем не менее, что может быть интересснее, чем выжывание на неизвестной планете.
По сути, в начале идет сбор ресуросов, для того чтоб улучшить базу; еды, чтоб прокормить команду; дров - чтоб греть убежище. Но со временем это надоедает. За два часа игры, ты делаешь одно и тоже самое, никакого продвижения нет, тупой кликер. Ресурсы вблизи кончаються, приходиться уходить далеко от базы ( а при минус 45 - минус 65), персонажы возвражаються дохляками и если вовремя не отправишь их в док станцию, они дохнут), температура воздуха постепенно понижаеься (если вначале игры было - 20, то сейчас минимальный показатель -45).
Игра усложняеться, настолько, что пропадает желание играть. Постоянно все ломаеться (с чтоб вы знали с каждой минутой поломки учащаються) все что есть на базе, так, что ты не успеваешь пополнять русурсы. В итоге к концу игры, у меня 4 персонажа бегало за запчастями, а один за дровами.
Даже Dark Souls 2 был не таким сложным. В результате, пока игру не обновят, я туда ни ногой.
Моя оценка 5 из 10

I was looking forward to this one for a good while. Great artstyle, an intruiging storyline.. Survive against all odds..

However, the game ended up being a bit of a disappointment for me. I enjoy (challenging) survival games, but this one is too much for me.. I must have died at least ten times in the 35 minutes I played. And when you die, of course you start over again - rinse and repeat... The AI breaks your stuff so often and my chars can't keep up so they die the same way over and over again. It could be an enjoyable experience with a little balancing - but sadly I cannot reccomend the game in it's current state. Maybe I'm a noob, but the game just isn't any fun.

Edited because it seemed harsh hindsight:

Symmetry has potential but right now I do not recommend it even though you would get a decent amount of playtime for your money.

I love difficult games but at the moment this game is not what I would call fun, it's just tedious. The storytelling is not strong enough to be a redeeming quality for the gameplay. It never feels like any progress is being made because of how often the AI breaks modules. The weather patterns increasingly become too dangerous to brave and resources are further and further away as well. It seems as if you make one mistake and lose a crew member then you cannot keep up with the scaling difficulty. There doesn't seem to be any new gameplay as you get further in, just more micromanagement. And the crew members automatically do the same task they were last assigned -- on repeat -- even if they're close to death. This is infuriating on your fifth attempt, let alone twenty. The game is figuratively making sure your babies dont stick forks into power outlets. There's not much else besides minimalistic art that wants to die.

I realize that the devs probably intended to make the game frustratingly difficult. But unlike Dark Souls or other "difficult" games, Symmetry never provided satisfaction. It did provide mind-numbingly high amounts of clicking and scrolling. The interface is clearly designed to make it difficult to watch over all my crew at once but add the incessant need to override previous orders and I found it unfun even with the pause feature.

Symmetry continously moves the goal post to keep you busy and increase difficulty but the minimal amount of information provided to the player makes every decision feel like a gamble. And I could see that being both good and bad. But after 20 days pass in-game, it doesn't seem like your choices even matter because of how much goes wrong all at once and how short your windows of opportunity are for recovery.

The game seems really cool in concept but the execution seems to have unintentionally crossed the line between difficult and unintuitive.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Edited to add further feedback:

One thing that kept killing my immersion. Why would I need a wood stove to heat what seem to be electric coils when I have an electric generator that has the capacity to rapidly charge a backup battery. If they're actually vents and not heaters then my mistake. It seems like the devs put significant effort to bring this realistically harsh environment to life but every time one of those coils broke I could only question the efficiency of heating the base.

One thing that I think that could be done better is the weather station. It only tells me what the immediate weather is, as far as I know. Which the art has already done a great job of doing. Yeah, it's nice to know an exact temperature but shouldn't a weather station help forecast as well? Even if it's just a short while. That would really help make it feel like my choices are meaningful instead of what seemed like pure RNG.

I appreciate the quick response from the devs, thanks again!