# Syntherapy

Summer DB entity ID: fff5dc9a\-51b6\-427e\-ad17\-265e83756e2f

Steam App ID: 1077470

Syntherapy is a visual novel adventure game that thrusts the player into the heart of a challenging psychotherapy case where their choices, both in conversations and types of treatment chosen, will have powerful consequences\.              Syntherapy sees you play as Dr\. Melissa Park, a psychotherapist called to Petrichor University by research student Tara Northrop\. Tara has created an experimental therapy AI that is showing signs for concern\.  Willow is so advanced that its creator needs to ensure its mental well\-being\. Dr\. Harold Freeman, the President of the university, is worried that Willow's sentience could have wider ethical ramifications for the university, and has been fighting to have it shut down\.   Syntherapy sensitively looks at the ethics surrounding advanced AI, and explores a variety of topics related to mental health\. The game asks wider questions of its audience and the moral behavior of humans, as they design and construct artificially intelligent beings\.    Syntherapy is not recommended for children, or those who may be affected by such subject matter\.          Challenging and thought\-provoking dialogue choices\.   Complex loyalty management system that takes player choices, play style, and topics chosen into account\.    Your choices and how to choose to interact with others will directly affect how the game story progresses and ultimately, the ending\.    A variety of in\-game music to select during session planning\.   Over 37 possible endings\!   Explore a variety of topics related to mental health and mental illness while uncovering the mysterious backstories of all the main characters\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Crowned Daemon Studios

- Publisher: V Publishing

- Release date: Oct 15, 2020

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

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- Price: 1499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 40

- Steam positive reviews: 33

- Steam negative reviews: 7

- Steam positive percentage: 82.5%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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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\-24T06:14:45\.507186\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T06:14:46\.516656\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T06:14:46\.288655\+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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