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Symbiocom

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About

The protagonist of this game is a maintenance engineer aboard I.S.T. Rident, a space-faring passenger liner in the delta quadrant. Suddenly, two war ships attack Rident. As the captain orders the passengers to escape on life boats, the hero is knocked unconscious. Some time later, he finds himself in a deserted spacecraft, and must find a way to escape from there, find out who was responsible for the attack on Rident, and what has happened to its passengers.

Symbiocom is a first-person perspective adventure game, in which locations are represented by pre-rendered backgrounds; camera can be rotated, but movement is restricted to "jumps" between still screens, sometimes displayed as short "on rails" sequences. The emphasis of the gameplay is on solving puzzles, inventory- as well as logic-based. There are no characters to interact with, with the exception of a few robots and the so-called "symplant", a symbiotic artificial intelligence implanted in the protagonist's brain.

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Perspective

First person

Game details

Business Model

Commercial

Media Type

CD-ROM

Input Devices Supported/Optional

Keyboard, Mouse

Number of Offline Players

1 Player

System requirements

Min. CPU Class Required

Intel Pentium

Min. OS Class Required

Windows 95

Min. RAM Required

16 MB

Min. CD-ROM Drive Speed Required

4X (600 KB/s)

Video Modes Supported

Full screen

Video Resolutions Supported

640×480

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Also known as

Syn-FactoWorking title

Syn-FactorDutch title

SynfactorGerman title

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Facts

Released

1998

Platforms

PCWindowsMac

Age ratings

ESRBEveryoneUSK12

Tags

1st-personPuzzle elementsSci-fi / futuristicDetective / mystery