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Smazak · Published by Smazak
2 user reviews — 100% positive (2 reviews) · 20 achievements
Last updated 6 Oct 2026
Synthetic Paradox is a sci-fi action rogue-lite mixed with tower defense elements. Fight never-ending waves of enemies and bosses, collect items and build up your defenses alone or in co-op for up to 4 players! Discover unique combinations of towers and items to help you protect your Core!
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Action, Indie · 2025 · More £5 - £15 games
Explore endless waves of enemies and bosses in Synthetic Paradox. Collaborate or compete solo or with up to three friends as you build defenses and discover unique item combinations to protect your Core.
About this game
Synthetic Paradox is a unique mix of action rogue-lite and tower defense set in the far future. Make your way through multiple generated and hand-crafted levels alone or with your friends in up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, build towers, merge them to create powerful defense systems to protect your Core against never-ending waves of enemies or die trying.
Build up your defenses!
Find 40+ different items and lock them either into your character or into one of the 6 starting towers to create 30+ powerful defense systems.
Gather your friends!
You can experience the whole game not only solo, but in co-op mode for up to 4 players. Each of you will have your own items, own towers but only one Core to protect!
Grow stronger!
Before you enter the fray, choose your loadout - You will need to pick a Skill, Amulet and adjust your mech with the help of Systems! Choose wisely to help you overcome the obstacles ahead!
With each success and failure, you will grow stronger and unlock more powerful items, skills and amulets. Aswell more room to adjust your Systems.
Move fast, fight hard!
You can adjust the difficulty to your liking. Want more enemy types right from the begining? No problem. Do you want stronger enemies? Be our guest. Maybe you like to make strategic decision with limited resource? Don´t hesitate!
Or maybe you are here for the real challenge and attempt the...Impossible!?
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10+
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 or AMD FX-8350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 710, 1 GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 1 GB
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Content Update Version 1.3.0 - Chaos Rupture
This content patch is focusing on expanding the Chaos damage type, expanding the possibilities of builds and experimentation even further with new items, perk, tower, amulet, skill and new enemy!New Items: Pandora's box - Every time you attack you have a 5% chance to activate a random effect: Heal, attack speed, bonus damage, self-damage, teleport to random location or spawn hostile Shade.Exotic Molecules - Taking damage has a 20% chance to deal AOE Chaos damage back to the attackers.Chaotic Pertrubator - When you deal damage with all 3 elements within 1 second, increase crit chance of 5 random allies by 1%. New Skill: Chaos Scrap Launcher - Use 50% of your scrap to launch a explosive projectile dealing chaos damage based on scrap consumed. Costs 99 stamina. New Amulet: Chaotic Expenditure - Every time you gain or lose scrap, you have 20% chance to launch a projectile dealing chaos damage. New Tower: Amalgam Tower - Slow/medium fire-rate chaos-damage tower. Attacking may lead to "haywire state". Haywire state boosts attack speed and damage, but targeting becomes erratic. New Perk: Chaos starting Tower - Your basic tower now deals chaos damage and gains random item after being built. New Enemy: Chaos Beast - Rare miniboss that hunts players with chaos items We would like to thank everyone he has been following us and supporting us during our development of Synthetic Paradox! If you have any ideas, critique or you have found some bugs. Please join our Discord and let us know!Read full article on Community Announcements (Tenshi)Patch NotesOfficial
Changelog Version 1.2.2 hotfix
Fixes Fixed issues with progress not being saved after first startFixed visual bug in the tutorialTutorial now correctly rewards XPRead full article on Community Announcements (Tenshi)Patch NotesOfficial
Changelog version 1.2.1
Features Feature: added option to disable gamepad vibrationsFeature: ending the run through pause menu now rewards xp based on the current levelFixesFix: gamepad controls in void UI losing focusFix: Limited the amount of "new item" animationsFix: bug preventing switching from mouse mode to gamepad mode in pause menuRead full article on Community Announcements (Tenshi)AnnouncementsOfficial
Synthetic Paradox full release is now available on Steam!
We are excited to fully release our passion project, Synthetic Paradox, to everyone!Synthetic Paradox is now fully released and available for purcahse with base price $11.99/€11.79.To celebrate this milestone, for the next 12 days, you will be able to get full version of Synthetic Paradox with 20% discount!Within the full game, you will be able to experience the co-op multiplayer for up to 4 players!We never thought that we will see this happen and we couldn´t have done it without the support of our testers and friends! Thank you!Together with the release, there is also a content patch and fixes:Fix Increased Gamepad mode detection deadzonesFIx: Gamepad control in GUIBalance: Nerfed chaotic armor perk 2x dmg => 0.5 dmgLevel: Added some story elementsLevel: Removed special towers from conflux and final bossLevel: Adjusted stage logic in final bossLevel: Portal are now activated with \ keyArt: Changed grail iconArt: Changed icons to better match the styleArt: Added new music track to most of the levelsWe will continue to fix bug and watch over this game, but there is potentionally something new on the horizon...If you have any feedback, issue or want to just chat with us, feel free to drop us a message on our Discord!Smazak TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (Tenshi)Patch NotesOfficial
Changelog version 1.1.8.
NEW General Full Gamepad Support!Added optional laser pointerAdded improved gui of system treesAdded new achievementsAdded animation on item pick-upAdded added small green arrows in tutorial to help player navigateBalanceDefense platform - removed item drop from the armsReplaced ESS perk with Fire Gem in the Elemental System TreeReplaced Duplicator with High Caliber Rounds in the Weapons System TreeAdded new perk Synthetic cells into the Amor System TreeFixes Fix: popup energy pickup in mutiplayer should give the bonus to correct playerFix: rare issue where the game stuck at "waiting for other players"Fix: negative difficulty modifiers in multiplayerFix: issue where enemeis could suddendy fly to other side of mapFix: incorrect behavior when users left multiplayer gameFix: knockback immune enemies (bosses, minibosses, guard,..) recived knockbackFix: adjusted some text descriptions to better reflect real behaviorRead full article on Community Announcements (Tenshi)
