Con: Increasingly high risks of lobby crashing once you master the game and the more you break it, particularly in coop.
That's it, there's nothing else negative to be said.

Absolute gem; decent lifespan on singleplayer and virtually infinite replayability on coop.

Let me start out with some positives.
Stylistically, the game is amazing. The devs are obviously big fans of Terminator 2, yet they veered away from the gritty 80s aesthetic and created something unique. They strike a nice balance between realism and cartoonish. It almost comes across as action figures. The sound design is also quite good. It gives the guns more feedback which helps create that sense of immersion since you can't actually see the gun well.

Unfortunately this is where the praise for the game ends.

From a mechanical standpoint, I think this game suffers for having too many mechanics stuffed into it. There's no better example of this than the ejection mechanic. Instead of pressing R to reload your weapon, you have to first press E to eject the magazine and then press R to reload. This might sound like a minor change, but it completely changes the flow of the game. Even if you don't have the muscle memory from other FPS games, it would still feels sluggish and slow. Given how many hordes of enemies you have to fight combined with bosses that have tons of health, reloading is essential especially in heated moments. There's a reason why nearly every shooter game, from Half-Life to Enter the Gungeon, has only one button required for reloading. I can't help but feel like the developers added this because "it makes the game more realistic."

This is a game where you get to use a rocket launcher as an android against fighter jet in order to stop the apocalypse.

The problem don't stop there. I would be fine with bonus damage from head shots if they actually consistently registered as head shots. The 8 classes are meant to add variety, but some of them I feel were added without consideration for the game as a whole (e.g. sniper and assassin).

The game also has some readability flaws. Top-down shooters are more reliant on readability than any other shooter game since you're looking at the characters and enemies in a way that isn't natural. Outside of structure enemies, many of the robots you have to fight do not stick out from the chaos. What's worse is that once enemies are killed, they explode and leave a cloud of smoke. Whilst this is neat, it also makes it difficult to see how many remaining enemies there are. There's even an enemy that looks no different from when they're alive and when they're dead. On top of this, you're having to control you're own character. Depending on the class, standing out in the open is not a viable strategy so you're forced to move from cover to cover. This means that you're

On top of all this, the difficulty doesn't feel quite right. There were many times during my playthroughs where I was instantly one-shot with no indication as to why. At least in other games, I can understand why I died, but Synthetik doesn't attempt to do anything to help understand. Given how this is a roguelite, difficulty tuning should be of top priority.

Overall, Synthetik has a few good ideas that are tarnished by poor design choices. It would take a massive rework for me to enjoy this game.

Good game?