Sync Sprint is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. And this particular platformer lowers the average quality of all the platformers, too, that's how bad it is.
This is an incredibly lazy, bare bones affair... usually the way 2D platformers have to get sold on Steam (because they sure as heck don't sell on the basis of the obsolete gameplay) is through a cute character hook to get people into it... either a bug skeleton whatever in Hollow Knight, a blob of meat, an Italian plumber, that sort of thing. Here, you get a weird busted 2D Rubiks cube or something. Everything about this platformer is phoned in, it almost feels like a minimum viable product cash grab, but I couldn't see any fake reviews/stupidly inflated price tag.
All you do in this platformer is jump around, avoid spikes... there's some pickups and an upgrade tree (which, while being completely pointless and adding nothing to do the game, is the only thing that makes this appear to be at least a little sincere).
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic "retro" looking 2D graphics, and it's hard to say if this is due to the age of the assets used, if it's a deliberate attempt for the game to look bad/retro on purpose, or if the assets are just, well, terrible looking. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game in 2025, such poor quality 2D graphics in the 3D era just aren't good enough, whether it's a deliberate design fault on behalf of the developer or they just couldn't manage to do any better, this is a compromise gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 130,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 130,000+ games on Steam?
Sync Sprint has the laughable, eye-watering price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
For comparison, the $4 asking price for this game could get you games like "Torchlight 2", "Planet Coaster" or "The Witcher 2". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.
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Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]
