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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.

0
playing now
53%
positive of 104 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 56% of 9,571 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.6k–6.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 104 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 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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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