Songs of Syx
Low-fantasy city builder scaling villages into warring empires
Gamatron AB · Released Sep 21, 2020 · Early Access
IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 94% of 9,270
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 87% of 132 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 414
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 1 year ago
- Nov 25, 2024
Free demo available, 84 playing it now: get the demo.
What is Songs of Syx?
This top-down, low-fantasy city builder and colony simulation takes place in a single-player sandbox. You begin with a village, lay out buildings, streets, and production, manage citizens’ needs and upkeep, then train armies and expand through real-time battles into a city-state and empire.
For you if...
- +you enjoy detailed citizen, production, and logistics management
- +you want settlements that grow into large empires
- +you prefer open-ended single-player sandbox strategy
Not for you if...
- −you want a gentle, clearly explained learning curve
- −you dislike demanding optimization and growing micromanagement
What players say
94% of 9,270 reviews are positive · 87% of 132 in the last 30 days
Players praise the scale and depth, particularly the progression from a small settlement to an empire with supply chains and armies. Common complaints focus on the unclear interface and tutorial, along with current balancing that makes larger cities feel overly punishing to manage.
Screenshots and trailer
Songs of Syx system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 (8u51 and above) Windows 8.x (Desktop) Windows 7 SP1 Windows Vista SP2
- Processor
- Pentium 2 266 MHz processor
- Graphics
- 256MB with opengl 3.3 support
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 300 MB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- 2.0 GHZ 4 cores or greater
- Graphics
- 512MB with opengl 3.3 support
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 300 MB available space
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 34
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- The native resolution is not the default one
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Tags
- Early Access
- City Builder
- Colony Sim
- Strategy
- Sandbox
- Grand Strategy
- Base Building
- 4X
- Building
- Singleplayer
- Top-Down
- Simulation
- Combat
- Moddable
- Survival
- Fantasy
Recent updates
- Nov 25, 2024 · About windows defender warnings
- Jul 2, 2021 · V58
- May 4, 2021 · V58 progress
- Feb 16, 2021 · Crime And Punishment
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