Synergism Ultimate Beginners Guide

Synergism is a long-term idle-incremental game and it requires proper strategy to progress faster. This Ultimate Beginners Guide covers most progression steps that will help you to focus on the right things. There are also links to other more detailed guides for each game section, so you can take a look there if you need more help.

You can also check out this playlist made by Stan Kosh on Youtube for the full playthrough and some guides for important parts of the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpaOv0KSQPmoxzGOOuzk5PXjCBjvOjLDq

Most of the game progression can be done by just buying available upgrades or waiting out. Early Game is pretty fast, but some parts require specific builds, so keep it in mind.

Early Game

Gameplay Loop early on is very simple. Buy available stuff, earn some more Coins, buy more stuff, get more upgrades and so on. First prestige tier will give you Diamonds, so we'll consider it our first gameplay layer.

You can use hotkeys to make repetitive buying easier, usually it's 1, 2, 3 etc. You can check settings for full hotkeys list. Use them, that will save a lot of time for you, before you unlock more Automations.

Don't forget to do Challenges from time to time to push your results.

Prestige (Diamonds)

Prestige progression tier is pretty straightforward, other than one important thing: Accelerator Boost (in Buildings tab). Accelerator Boost resets all Diamond Upgrades and consumes all diamonds upon activating, but it's essential for progression and reaching higher numbers. Make sure to spend your extra Diamonds (for example on Diamond Buildings) before buying next Accelerator Boost. In most cases there is no point of pushing forward if you can buy Accelerator boost, just do that and keep building from there. It also resets on the Prestige, so this game layer is a bit slow and annoying. Don't worry, eventually you'll automate it and won't have to worry about it.

Push your Prestige progression until you will unlock Transcension, but don't rush it. I'd recommend grind a bit more, so you will get more than 1 Mythos on your first Transcension.

Transcension (Mythos)

Transcension resets all diamond Progression, so you will start from the scratch. Make sure to get at least 1 Mythos Building, and then prioritize Mythos Upgrades and spend remaining Mythos on Buildings.

Push forward, buy everything you can, try to push Achievements.

At the point when your Prestige will be instant you might want to farm Prestige count for extra rewards. Same with Transcendence and other prestige tiers. Usually it unlocks something useful, or at least gives you more Achievement Points, which is always nice.

Reincarnation (Particles and Obtanium)

This is where things get a bit more complex.

Spend 1 Particle on the Protons building, then move to the Research. Order isn't really relevant, you pretty much buy cheapest thing all the time, but first Researches with greeen borders are very good start.

Do not worry about buying Research that will reset on the next prestige layer, it won't happen any time soon, so just get what you can/ what you need without prioritizing the "Never Resets" red border ones.

In order to get Particle upgrades you need to reach specific research, before that you can use your particles on particle buildings.

In the shop focus on Instant challenge (The box with a C in it with text that says instant below it) and auto obt and auto off level 1 (The yellow and blue circles with the word “Auto” in them) are all must haves pretty much, use the rest of your quarks on obtainium ex and offering ex to help speed up the grind to c8.

Retry Challenge will automatically retry the challenge if on, if you have the instant challenge shop upgrade it won’t kick you out of the challenge at all after completion.

You unlock more research after c7 and beyond.

Your goal is to push all the way to Challenge 8 and finish it to unlock Anthill, next gameplay layer.

In order to finish Challenge 8 you need around e70-e75 Galactic Crumbs (Tax ant will carry you through) and e5750 Particles.

Anthill (Galactic Crumbs and Sacrifice)

This is where the game gets WAY slower. Anthill takes a while to build up, but it's not affected by your resets, so you can keep grinding and pushing in other areas.

Buy all available ants, ant upgrades, mainly focus on ant speed for faster ant progression. Upgrading Supperior Intellect Rune helps a lot as well, since it adds a lot of ant speed.

You can also reset shop upgrades for 15 quarks and reinvest points into Ant Speed for faster progression.

You won't be able to sacrifice until e40 Galactic Crumbs, and for now most ant upgrades are manual, so you won't be able to automate them.

Ant Automation buttons enable the automation, but for it to work on the specific upgrades you need to fulfill the conditions for that type of upgrade. It can be achievement, upgrade, research or something else. Eventually everything will be automated but not fast.

Rune and Research automation for now works only on one selected upgrade that you want to automate, so it's still very manual. Later on it will affect everything all will be properly fully automated. For now use hotkeys and stuff.

Rest of the Guide is under constrution and will be added over time.