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Synth Riders cover art

Synth Riders

Kluge Interactive · 2019-10-31

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ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Jul 12, 2018 (SteamVR), Oct 31, 2019 (Oculus Quest), Jul 27, 2021 (PlayStation VR), Feb 22, 2023 (PlayStation VR2), Oct 31, 2019 (Meta Quest 2), Feb 02, 2024 (visionOS)

Let the music move you in Synth Riders, a dance-action VR rhythm game with custom song support and a thriving multiplayer community! Play on PC VR and Steam Frame.

Synth Riders is a 2019 Action, Casual, and Indie game priced at $24.99, with Very Positive (92% of 1668 reviews) sentiment and an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners.

7
playing now
92%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
89/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Synth Riders is a virtual reality rhythm game developed and published by Kluge Interactive. It involves players touching spheres ('notes'), tracing lines ('rails'), and avoiding obstacles that move towards them.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 40 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–100k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,668 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2019-01-21) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
525220182026Week of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-08-11 17:00 — 11 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$0.002018-07-132026-08-102018-07-13 — best price $9.992019-04-12 — best price $13.592019-06-26 — best price $15.592019-11-07 — best price $19.992020-01-23 — best price $13.992020-02-03 — best price $17.992020-03-02 — best price $19.992020-06-25 — best price $13.992020-10-01 — best price $14.992020-11-16 — best price $16.242021-01-05 — best price $24.992021-03-25 — best price $14.992021-07-08 — best price $24.992021-10-28 — best price $14.992021-12-01 — best price $24.992022-01-27 — best price $14.992022-05-30 — best price $24.992022-08-31 — best price $14.992022-11-29 — best price $24.992023-02-27 — best price $24.992023-07-15 — best price $16.242023-08-28 — best price $24.992023-12-04 — best price $14.992024-02-26 — best price $24.992024-05-02 — best price $24.992024-07-18 — best price $24.992024-11-27 — best price $14.992025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-02-21 — best price $24.992025-05-15 — best price $14.992025-08-17 — best price $24.992025-11-24 — best price $15.992026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-08-03 — best price $9.992026-08-10 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyIn-App PurchasesSteam CloudIncludes level editor127 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5, PS VR2 (PlayStation)3,15410%10
PS4, PS VR (PlayStation)50019%10
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

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

Player tags

VRIndieMusicRetroActionArcadeRhythmModdableCyberpunkSwordplay

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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