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If you had “anime robot Tarkov” on your 2024 bingo card, you win. Synduality: Echo of Ada is a PvPvE extraction shooter featuring giant robots. Ever wished you could farm crystal nodes and gank noobs from the safety of an Armored Core? This might be the closest you get. With the Closed Network Test for Synduality: Echo of Ada behind us, we can share our thoughts on the current state of the game and the project’s overall trajectory. No more Customs ratting and Reshala. It’s rockin’ robot and anime waifu time.
Survey, Scavenge, Shoot
Whether trying to extract solo or team up with friends, the premise of Synduality: Echo of Ada remains the same: survey, scavenge, and shoot. You’re piloting a large, ponderous robot, searching for crystal nodes, parts, and other goodies you can scavenge. Survive long enough to extract, and you can turn your hard-won gains into upgrades for your mech and HQ. Die before you get out, and you lose whatever you brought in. Along the way, you’ll encounter twisted wildlife as well as other players, and you never know who is friend and who is foe.
During my first sortie, I dropped my multi-ton stompy boi off a cliff, almost landing on another player who’d just finished mining a node, scooped the goods for myself, gave a wave, and hightailed it into the woods before I got a well-deserved rocket in the spine. Mechs in Synduality are called Cradlecoffins, each possessing a unique ability and anime co-pilot. Whether summoning barriers or laying down walls of machine gun fire, the Cradlecoffins feel great. It feels like Robotech Battlecry, albeit grounded and with the constant fear of ganking from the hills.
Tactical Depth in Synduality
Though Synduality: Echo of Ada shares Tarkov‘s gameplay loop, its art style and vibes couldn’t be much different. Synduality is cuter, funnier, and less merciless. The AI Magi who serve beside you feel fan service-y, but their useful abilities and quirky dialog make them welcome company on the battlefield. The extraction map is large, pretty, and relatively content-dense for this stage of development. After extraction you’ll even get a top-down replay, giving you a chance to review your pathing (and where everything went wrong). Synduality is packed with thoughtful and unexpected features like this.
Synduality: Echo of Ada is quietly becoming one of the most interesting PvPvE extraction games around. There’s a legion of mech games to choose from, but nothing else feels like this. Trotting a house-sized mech under an overpass to take shelter from the planet’s toxic rain? Watching the storm paint the world green as your battery ticks down? It’s an undeniable vibe. If you’re into giant robots or extraction shooters, Synduality is one to watch. Also, I don’t know what’s going on with Yoshio, but please keep that lama monster away from me.
