# Synonymy

Summer DB entity ID: 60bd09a4\-d745\-452f\-8903\-13ee1a0171e9

Steam App ID: 342890

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\.    The game supports multiplayer, and weekly challenges in which users can compete globally on set start and end words\. Every time a path is uncovered by a user, it is tweeted from @synonymygame and posted to our Facebook page\. All profits go to educational charities\.     A visualization of the game's network can be seen here \-\- http://tinyurl\.com/med6g8b \-\- In order to compute relative distance, all synonyms were mapped using 3d graphing software, as if each word were a planet that had a gravitational pull proportional to its number of relationships to other nodes\. Above is a 2D representation of that model, a 40,000 x 40,000 rendering\.    Music by Daduk

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Christopher Cinq\-Mars Jarvis

- Publisher: Christopher Cinq\-Mars Jarvis

- Release date: Mar 5, 2015

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Casual, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Multi\-player, Cross\-Platform Multiplayer, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/342890/ss\_c53ddca1fc111e5d3155fd2577af25290a4e6cbe\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1671522390, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/342890/ss\_a3eba19593df9499c2a95f357b3fbe8f4b101f19\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1671522390, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/342890/ss\_61345c1c11111bf77336ed9ea583f6501ef8b42a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1671522390, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/342890/ss\_736a36b0fd87e6d0fb41811e01176ebd8dfcb7d3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1671522390, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/342890/ss\_8f010942aeb1fb355b3e61345cd22005e04c0345\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1671522390

- Price: 199 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 102

- Steam positive reviews: 53

- Steam negative reviews: 49

- Steam positive percentage: 51.96078431372549%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/60bd09a4-d745-452f-8903-13ee1a0171e9/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/60bd09a4-d745-452f-8903-13ee1a0171e9/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T02:54:34\.820536\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T02:54:36\.075944\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T02:54:35\.841362\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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