Ways to double your profit:

1. Build a time machine, go back to the 80s, live there for a while (because the 80’s were awesome), invest in Apple or Google, then come back.

2. Take advantage of this limited-time Synth Riders BOGO sale and get two copies of the game for less than the price of one! Only this weekend, when you purchase one Steam Synth Riders copy, you'll also receive an extra Steam key for free!

One feature we’re VERY excited about releasing soon is the much anticipated multiplayer mode. This sale is perfect even if you already have the game to get a couple copies for your friends as gifts. Multiplayer will be cross-platform compatible and so you’ll be able to challenge your friends on Steam, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest!

1. Buy Synth Riders on Steam before Monday morning ($13.39 / 33% Off)
   
2. Send proof of purchase to giveaway@synthridersvr.com
   
3. In reply, you’ll receive a free Steam key
   
4. An extra key is yours to do whatever you like, no questions asked!

Let your friends know about the Special :-]

As we enter into 2020 with a whole new set of exciting Synth Riders features, and with so many huge things planned, we thought it would be fun to look back at the past year’s accomplishments and get a little nostalgic.

You guys have been the most amazing community we could ever ask for and we couldn’t have gotten here without you! Let’s start this 2019 rewind by looking at some of the top Synth Riders songs that you most enjoyed playing this past year.



The most played song was "Lazer Pink" by Sunset Neon. This is a great EDM song with “synthwave” influences that also broke the mold beyond this very genre. We want to give a huge shout out to Omotea for their fantastic video featuring this Sunset Neon classic, and getting a quarter of a million views while at it!


https://youtu.be/rrUQHC-8D6Y


Your second favorite map this year was another Sunset Neon classic, “Tonight” which has become Synth Riders’ very own 80’s rock n’ roll anthem. ). Nobody captures the essence of this song on the game better than Touge, who nails the appropriate costume for this song on his underrated video masterpiece.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQsR9kFC09g

Your third favorite song was "Enemy" by Blue Stahli, one of the harder electro-rock songs in the original Synthwave essentials pack. Xoxobluff really shows off getting her leg and core workout for the day playing below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-IQnL2Rhg



As far as difficulties in the game, “Expert” was the most commonly played difficulty in 2019, followed closely by “Hard,” which we feel is just about when the game starts to get interesting.

It’s really important to us that Synth Riders is fun for everyone, regardless of their skill level, but we know that it is in the higher level of difficulty, such as Expert or Master,
that really cause you to move your body, experience some of the finer game mechanics and truly feel the music when you play. We’re glad so many people have been experiencing it at these levels

If you’re not there yet, make a resolution that 2020 is the year that you get there! You got this, we’re all behind you! (join one of the Synth Riders Discord groups to meet players, get support and tips)




Lastly, we just wanted to highlight a few of the major features we added in 2019. We’ve been working around the clock to make Synth Riders the best game possible and we think you’ll be very impressed with our 2020 roadmap. Coming up in the pipeline are new song packs, a complete overhaul to the UI, a more robust music discovery system, new features, game modes, and our much awaited multiplayer version, which is already being tested Get ready because in 2020, Synth Riders is about to become a whole new game!

Thanks again for making this year so special for us! We can’t wait for 2020, where we’ll actually get to meet some of you in the new multiplayer mode when that releases very soon!

Hi riders!

Just in time for the holidays we are excited to announce an early version of Friends Leaderboards

We also have a few extra updates:
- Party mode leaderboards by difficulty
- Loading performance improvements
- Bug Fixes

We have loved to hear your feedback and are working hard to optimize the game to its fullest potential.

As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.

Here are the fixes and improvements:
- Loading time improvements
- Party Mode is now available, you can find it at the bottom of the song selection menu
- UI improvements
- Mods interaction improvement

As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.

Hi everyone!

We are proud to announce that we are leaving early access! Our community has been integral in getting us here and we’ll continue to lean in on your support to move forward. This is just the beginning.

We will continue to improve the game, build new features and add new songs. Our immediate focus will be to bring multiplayer to life, with more features forthcoming, such as new power ups, stay tuned!

it doesn’t mean that we finish the journey, it means that we actually started, we have great plans for the near future and we are excited one of our main focus will be multiplayer in companion with a bunch of power ups, Synth Invaders and new music will come as well. Stay tuned!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65-KEXgZGI


Visuals:
- New stage called “The Monolith”
- Graphic improvements in all the stages
- Dynamic lights improvements

Development:
- Performance improvements

Music:

A new music pack with 5 songs from Ninety9 Lives:

1. “Underdog” by Kastra
2. “Paris Night Walk” by Roy
3. “Id” by Ben Lepper
4. “Spectrum” by Axtasia
5. “Outburst” by Never Modern Talk


New song over the FIXT Essentials Vol 1 Music Pack:

1. “Into the Void” by Celldweller (Exclusive early release)
2. “L.O.V.E.” by PRIZM
3. “All Night” by PRIZM
4. “Phoenix” by Scandroid


As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our “Official discord server” Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.

Your energy moves us forward, thank you to all of you for making this happen!

Hi everyone! we are happy to announce our last update before our final release!!!

Here are the fixes:

- YUR connection bug fix
- Performance/Bug Fixes
- Custom Stages <https://github.com/shogoki-vnz/SynthRiders-CustomStages>

As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server. Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.

Dear players, we are extremely excited to announce that Synth Riders will leave Early Access on October 31st!

The full release will sum up months of extending, improving, and polishing the game based on your valuable feedback. The development of Synth Riders is not over yet, as we’re planning to keep adding content to the game post-launch.

Full release highlights:

• 9 new tracks (details below)
  
• Exclusive "Into the Void (Synth Riders Edit)" song by Celldweller
  
• Redesigned UI and menus
  
• Stability improvements
  
• Multiplayer coming soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCx1e3vIsKI

The full release will come with nine new songs to the original OST from two labels:

FiXT Music Pack

Exclusive release by FiXT founder and hard rock electronic artist Celldweller combined with his alter ego Scandroid and retro-pop from Prizm. Full tracklist below:

• "L.O.V.E." by PRIZM
  
• "All Night" by PRIZM
  
• "Phoenix" by Scandroid
  
• "Into the Void (Synth Riders Edit)" by Celldweller

Ninety9lives Music Pack

Featuring fast-moving EDM tracks. Full tracklist below:

• "​Paris Night Walk" by ROY
  
• "Id" by Ben Lepper, Reflekt
  
• "Underdog" by Kastra, Freshcobar
  
• "Outburst" by Never Modern Talk
  
• "Spectrum" by Axtasia

Many thanks for the support, feedback, and enthusiasm you keep sharing with us since June last year.

The journey continues!

We made some improvements that we found over the week:

• Text readability improvements
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Filter by BPM
  
• Visual improvements

As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server. Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.

• Bug fixes with YUR integration
  
• Boxing mode has changed a little bit:
  
  • We took out the boxing meter
    
  • The 3 types of boxing intensities have changed
    
    • Normal: punching gives you a higher score, but not punching doesn't cause a miss.
      
    • Hard: you have to punch harder (faster) to get the velocity score, but not punching doesn't cause a miss
      
    • Intense: maximum force is the same as hard, but not punching hard in this section causes a miss
• We brought back the intro screen that most people loved, but now you can turn it on and off over the graphic settings
  
• We changed the name of the modality "endurance" to be "Challenge"

Thanks for all the support! Let’s connect on Discord

We are very excited to present the first free music pack for Synth Riders, FiXT Essentials - Vol 1! This is a collection of 5 new songs from FiXT, a music label gathering independent electronic-rock artists. In this update, we also introduce the world’s first native integration with a calorie counting and fitness tracker https://yur.fit/.

Game update changelog:

• FIXT music pack with 5 new free songs
  
• YUR fitness profile integration
  
• Cross-platform online leaderboard
  
• Master level difficulty
  
• New scenario
  
• New modes: regular, boxing and endurance
  
• Different modifiers to challenge your gameplay
  
• Dynamic lights now integrated in all of the scenarios
  
• Performance optimizations and bug fixes

Editor 1.7.3 changelog:

• Custom level difficulty up to 3X speed
  
• Dynamic lights control
  
• Bug fixes

Check out the brand new trailer that highlights the update:

http://youtu.be/d39GXuQj23s
FiXT Essentials - Vol 1 playlist:

• “Unshakeable” (Formal One Remix) by Celldweller
  
• “Enemy” (Gydra Remix) by Blue Stahli
  
• “Dust to Dust” (Zardonic Remix) by Circle of Dust
  
• “Wolves” by Voicians
  
• “Free” by Raizer

YUR.FIT Profile will keep track of your calories through the combination of an in-game integration and YUR.FIT mobile app that presents the progress (coming soon). To open the YUR dashboard, find it on the home screen, or simply stretch the right arm across the torso with both index triggers held down, then you release the triggers. Visit https://YUR.chat to join the community and find more interesting information about nutrition, environment, and lifestyle using VR for fitness.

We hope that you will enjoy jamming to the new songs and getting fit in the process. Stay tuned for more free content while Synth Riders leave Early Access later this year.

Thanks for all the support! Let’s connect on Discord