Synergy's full release has more challenges like tricky soil, illness, and death, which will all slowly tear down your paradise

Synergy has had an impressive rework for its official launch. While this does mean you have to say goodbye to your early access saves, I've been playing the final build and can assure you it's a worthy trade for loads of new features like new plants, seasons, and storylines.

I remember when Synergy was but a little city builder. When I played the Steam Next Fest demo early last year, everything was very small-scale: I was constrained to building on a little patch of land, interacting with limited resources...