Press Kit

Synthopolis is distributed free-to-play on Steam. Revenue comes exclusively from cosmetic items: no purchase affects the balance of a match. That choice is also a deliberate constraint on design — a game that cannot sell an advantage has to hold up on its core loop.

The hardware accessibility requirement follows the same logic: targeting integrated graphics rather than a high-end machine opens the door to regions where computers remain modest, an audience today's competitive FPS largely leaves aside.

The studio has been supported by a broad public, academic and esports network on the French Riviera, all the way to the France pavilion at Gamescom — see Awards and support. A Kickstarter campaign runs alongside development.

Movement rests on a choice of two grapples: the swing, to chain curves and keep your speed, and the pull, to launch yourself from one point to another. Add sliding, jumping, and items for shooting and betrayal. It is quick to pick up; the skill ceiling, on the other hand, is very high.

Two rulesets compete. In Final Pulse, a fixed five-minute round, whoever holds the Elyr when time runs out wins. In Core Charge, you must hold it for three minutes in total, cumulative — the round stretches the more players are fighting over it. As soon as there are more than two players, both modes turn into a free-for-all: up to four champions hunting freely.

Every environment in Synthopolis is painted: watercolour washes laid over brutalist architecture, outlined in ink. The city sits halfway between a comic book page and raw concrete.

That choice answers a readability constraint specific to the genre. In a game where you cross the level on a grapple at full speed, the ink outline separates volumes more sharply than photorealistic rendering would — and it costs less to draw, which serves the hardware accessibility goal directly.

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