History VideoGame / Synergism

* NotActuallyCosmeticAward: Almost every achievement earned increases a stat slightly or unlocks a new feature and gives some Achievement Points.

* HardModePerks: Completing Challenges 11-14 the first time unlocks Corruptions, which when invoked nerf the scaling of various gameplay elements like multiplier/accelerator effect or rune EXP gain, with the nerfs ranging from a small detriment at level 1 to heavily crippling at level 5, but in exchange they provide stacking multipliers to Ascension Score, which translates to more Ascension resources per reset.

* HardModePerks: Completing Challenges 11-14 the first time unlocks Corruptions, which when invoked weakens the scaling of various gameplay elements like multiplier/accelerator effect or rune EXP gain, ranging from a small detriment at level 1 to heavily crippling at level 5, but in exchange they provide stacking multipliers to Ascension Score, which translates to more Ascension resources per reset.

* HardModePerks: Completing Challenges 11-14 the first time unlocks Corruptions, which when invoked weakens the scaling of various gameplay elements like multiplier/accelerator effect or rune EXP gain, but in exchange they provide stacking multipliers to Ascension Score, which translates to more Ascension resources per reset.

* HardModePerks: Corruptions make various parts of the game weaker, but in exchange they provide a multiplier to Ascension Score, which translates to more Ascension resources per reset.

* HardModePerks: Corruptions make various parts of the game weaker, but in exchange they provide a multiplier to Ascension Score, which translates to more Wow! Tesseracts per reset, and thus buying Tesseract Buildings faster.

* AIGeneratedEconomy: You can unlock the ability to buy buildings and Automators/Multipliers/Automator Boosts automatically when affordable, which are usually bought in the Automation Shop. You can also unlock upgrades that let you automate upgrade purchases for different categories, NewGamePlus tiers, and tier resource gain.

* AIGeneratedEconomy: You can unlock the ability to buy buildings and Automators/Multipliers/Automator Boosts automatically when affordable, which are usually bought in the Automation Shop. You can also unlock upgrades that let you automate upgrade purchases for different categories and NewGamePlus tiers.

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: Early on, you can only really gain Wow! Tesseracts if the Ascension lasts more than 10 real-life seconds. Problem is, nothing in the game even mentions that, so you may end up doing a bunch of Ascensions automatically in less than that time, not knowing that you won't get the resource until you find out the hard way by seeing the Ascend History.

''Synergism'' is an IdleGame by [=Platonic/Pseudonian2/Pseudo-Corp=] released in 2020. It has you produce Coins with buildings you buy. However, the game's main point is its titular synergy. After you purchase some upgrades, every building you buy is going to affect other buildings. As more resource become available and new mechanics open up, nearly everything will start affecting something else and won't become obsolete. The game is so long and massive that it's going to take weeks to reach the endgame, with some parts also being convoluted/requiring a specific setup to get through efficiently.

* ObviousRulePatch: Before 2.9, Corruption I would lower the number of free Multipliers and Corruption II would do the same for Accelerators. Players who thought that it'd be easy to cheese the game by only relying on one and not the other are in for a shock if they tried to put one at a high level and not the other, as they would get a severe decrease in the profit increaser that's not covered by it unless both corruptions were at the same level. Since then, both corruptions have been merged into one, avoiding the issue altogether.

* ChallengeRun: You can start one of several challenges which require you to reach a certain resource total without helpful things, like Multipliers, Crystals, or things making the game harder like higher costs. Depending on the tier, the challenge will force you to Transcend, Reincarnate, or Ascend beforehand. Beating a challenge gives a boost to the main game.

** After a certain point, your coin gain becomes so high that you have taxes. Not only do they divide profits by a certain extent, but they can even cap coins per second gain. While you get upgrades and runes that lower taxes, they eventually become so high the only real way to lower tax growth and still making more money becomes beating challenge 13.

* LuckBasedMission: The Time action has you try to click within a randomly generated 2.5 second interval. Winning grants you quarks based on how large the accumulated multiplier is, while losing grants nothing.

* PlayEveryDay: You get quarks once you open enough for Wow! Cubes, Wow! Tesseracts, and Wow! Hypercubes, with the requirement increasing for each quark, but resetting after each day.

* {{Unobtainium}}: Parodied with the name of the resource that is used for Research, Obtainium.

''Synergism'' is an IdleGame by [=Platonic/Pseudonian2/Pseudo-Corp=] released in 2020. It has you produce Coins with buildings you buy. However, the game's main point is its titular synergy. After you purchase some upgrades, every building you buy is going to affect other buildings. As more resource become available and new mechanics open up, nearly everything will start affecting something else and won't become obsolete. You can expect to see numbers like 12.34e10.24M (that'd be 12.34*10^10.24 millionth power).

* LampshadeHanging: The game mentions how players are likely to find Prism Rune's effects underwhelming twice. Challenge 8 states "You'll never complain about Prism being bad again" and the achievement for beating it twenty times is called "I didn't even notice Prism was gone".

* RainbowSpeak: The research tab's description is white, but the words "Reincarnations", "green-bordered", and "red-bordered" are dark green, light green, and dark red, respectively.