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Desynced cover art

Desynced

Stage Games Inc. · Forklift Interactive · 2026-03-05

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 15, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

98
playing now
80%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

98 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

As Commander of an interplanetary mission, your ship has been damaged and your AI, ELAIN, has taken you out of stasis. ELAIN deployed robotic drones to a nearby planet for you to gather resources to make repairs.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 98 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 537 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~67/week).
  • · Review velocity up 555% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 16,638 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 41k–93k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,061 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $17.24 at Fanatical (2026-08-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 31 of 61 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
41641620232026Week of 2023-08-01: 416 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

176462026-09-15 00:00 — 87 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 101 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 147 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 86 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 98 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 143 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 100 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 76 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 115 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 132 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 52 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 83 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 85 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 46 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 88 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 109 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 69 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 70 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 94 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 75 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 73 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 94 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 52 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 98 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.3k44Aug 2023Aug 2026Aug 2023 — avg 1,322 · peak 2,714Sep 2023 — avg 442 · peak 1,136Oct 2023 — avg 269 · peak 640Nov 2023 — avg 310 · peak 899Dec 2023 — avg 219 · peak 522Jan 2024 — avg 144 · peak 316Feb 2024 — avg 91 · peak 174Mar 2024 — avg 159 · peak 406Apr 2024 — avg 88 · peak 203May 2024 — avg 63 · peak 135Jun 2024 — avg 65 · peak 225Jul 2024 — avg 91 · peak 198Aug 2024 — avg 72 · peak 205Sep 2024 — avg 64 · peak 164Oct 2024 — avg 87 · peak 182Nov 2024 — avg 52 · peak 127Dec 2024 — avg 57 · peak 102Jan 2025 — avg 58 · peak 120Feb 2025 — avg 128 · peak 280Mar 2025 — avg 62 · peak 139Apr 2025 — avg 58 · peak 106May 2025 — avg 51 · peak 110Jun 2025 — avg 80 · peak 193Jul 2025 — avg 81 · peak 210Aug 2025 — avg 60 · peak 147Sep 2025 — avg 50 · peak 106Oct 2025 — avg 44 · peak 118Nov 2025 — avg 71 · peak 151Dec 2025 — avg 48 · peak 105Jan 2026 — avg 47 · peak 94Feb 2026 — avg 70 · peak 151Mar 2026 — avg 687 · peak 2,050Apr 2026 — avg 273 · peak 576May 2026 — avg 156 · peak 337Jun 2026 — avg 101 · peak 221Jul 2026 — avg 88 · peak 168Aug 2026 — avg 78 · peak 169
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$15.492023-08-152026-08-232023-08-15 — best price $22.432023-10-06 — best price $23.992023-11-17 — best price $20.672023-12-11 — best price $26.982024-01-09 — best price $29.992024-02-13 — best price $26.992024-02-23 — best price $26.992024-03-06 — best price $26.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-04-04 — best price $26.982024-04-19 — best price $22.982024-04-29 — best price $22.982024-05-16 — best price $20.342024-06-02 — best price $22.982024-06-18 — best price $26.992024-07-08 — best price $22.492024-07-19 — best price $25.422024-07-31 — best price $29.992024-08-22 — best price $22.492024-09-08 — best price $25.422024-09-30 — best price $19.192024-10-23 — best price $26.992024-11-21 — best price $20.992025-01-03 — best price $26.992025-02-20 — best price $29.992025-03-27 — best price $22.982025-07-11 — best price $29.992025-09-15 — best price $15.512025-11-12 — best price $29.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-03-03 — best price $29.992026-04-22 — best price $29.992026-06-17 — best price $26.982026-07-14 — best price $26.872026-08-09 — best price $26.982026-08-21 — best price $20.992026-08-23 — best price $22.46
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
10.5%
earned "Infected"
1.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2553%28

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RTSSci-fiSandboxBuildingStrategySurvivalAutomationManagementSimulationMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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