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Synonymy

Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis · 2015-03-05

Steam

CasualStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 20, 2014 (iOS), Mar 05, 2015 (Linux), Mar 05, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 05, 2015 (Mac)

Synonymy is a non-profit, educational word game narrated by Richard Dawkins where players are challenged to find a path between random words through their network of synonyms. By taking the synonym of a word, and then a synonym of that synonym, and so on, you can ultimately arrive at any other word in a language.

Synonymy is a 2015 Casual and Strategy game priced at $1.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (52% of 102 reviews).

0
playing now
52%
positive of 102 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 71% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 29,055 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.5k–6.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 102 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.44 at WinGameStore (2017-01-16) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920152026Week of 2015-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 9 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
70Mar 2015Sep 2025Mar 2015 — avg 4 · peak 45May 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Sep 2015 — avg 2 · peak 22Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2017 — avg 7 · peak 246Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 9Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2025 — avg 1 · peak 11

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — Sep 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$2.99$0.442015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-03-06 — best price $1.792015-06-29 — best price $0.992015-10-12 — best price $0.492016-02-05 — best price $0.492017-01-16 — best price $0.442017-05-11 — best price $0.512017-07-03 — best price $1.992017-10-26 — best price $0.492017-11-28 — best price $1.992018-06-21 — best price $0.492019-11-01 — best price $1.992019-12-19 — best price $0.892020-11-02 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $0.492021-07-08 — best price $1.992021-11-24 — best price $1.592022-01-05 — best price $1.992022-06-23 — best price $1.392022-11-29 — best price $1.992023-03-16 — best price $0.492023-07-13 — best price $1.992023-12-21 — best price $1.192024-03-21 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $1.192025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-06-26 — best price $1.192025-10-06 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $1.192026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCross-Platform MultiplayerFamily Sharing

Player tags

ActionCasualPuzzleAbstractRelaxingStrategyStylizedTutorialEducationNarration

Census log

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

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