Sintopia is a mix of builder and God game, with an asymmetrical loop.

On the OVERWORLD, influence a silly civilization of chickpea people make their mark on the world and unfortunately for them, damn themselves by committing a host of sins. 

Punish the dead souls, keep your receipts for accounts and generate profit to help you build and sustain your Hellish empire.

Publisher Team17 Digital and developer Piraknights Games are asking you to set aside your morals, prepare your souls and dive into the flame and flaying chaos as Sintopia launches into Early Access on September 4, 2025 and will remain so for approx. 8 months.

“Players can experience the “Challenge” mode, which randomizes setup (map layout, gameplay elements, etc.) and objectives, providing a replayable experience. Progression within this mode (Hellish Role Models) allows players to unlock and customize their experience via game altering passives, while facing specific challenges which force them to strategize. Even though we’re super hyped by the other game modes to come (Campaign & Sandbox), we believe Challenge fits Early Access the most, providing players with unique gameplay situations and emergent storytelling.

Sintopia is a “systemic” game, meaning that a lot of underlying systems interact with each other. Some of them are still to be developed, but we wanted to have as many of them as possible playable in Early Access: sins sources, demons, procedural development for Humus, buildings destruction, fire propagation, etc. The gameplay experience of the game loop is fully representative of the final game, even though some (really) cool stuff is yet to come.

As it stands,we’re around two thirds complete, In Early Access, you have access to 16 Hell buildings (out of 28 planned), 4 Spells, 3 Role Models, several playable maps, all of Humus lifepaths, etc. We intend to update the Early Access regularly with new content, to keep things interesting for returning players. As a general rule of thumb, the content available in Early Access is about the most “straightforward / early-mid game” of what’s planned. Stuff to come later, such as new spells & buildings, may get a bit… wild.”

“In Early Access, Sintopia allows players to play one game mode with randomized objectives, setup and challenges. The main addition of the full version is the planned narrative campaign, articulated around scripted narrative missions, as well as a purely sandbox mode for players who like to customize their experience. New game systems are planned to be part of the final release such as altered behaviors of deviant Humus, and much more that will be revealed in the roadmap.

Of course, the variety of gameplay elements and options is meant to increase on all fronts: new Hell buildings, Humus lifepaths, Spell procedures, game maps, game situations, and so on. We aim to progressively roll out many of these changes during Early Access so players can have their hands on them before final release.”

But what better way to get to grips with the red and quite burny bureaucracy tape of Hell management than to sample your future eternal job up close with the update Sintopia demo, which features all content currently created by the developers, so there’s plenty to see and do in both the Overworld and Hell.

New Demo Features:  

• New Spell: Magmine. A throwable fireball that explodes on contact and spreads fire on the ground. If it does not hit a structure or a character, it becomes a landmine instead. Nice!
• Key bindings: keyboard shortcuts are now listed in the game settings and can be rebound. Makes being a hellish admin worker even easier!
• Fear and Motivation props rework: the props don’t cumulate anymore, requiring higher tier-props usage to reach maximum effect. Fear / Motivation technologies in the Liber Administratum have been merged so it’s less expensive to acquire them all. Cost cutting is the way!

A lot of new map objectives, both main and secondary. Also new map modifiers. It’s good to see where the mayhem is happening.

There’s also:

• New UI panel: information panel in the orbital view, which contains various stats (playtime, average sin, etc.) as well as a summary of Boons / Modifiers selected in Challenge Mode.
• Some Quality of Life changes, including:
  • Magic Resistance visual feedback. 
  • Dedicated alerts for Raids (Guacas, Demon spawns). 
  • All Specialist Punishment buildings are now tier 1 unlocks in the Liber Administratum (5 Hearos). 
  • Force Push is now more powerful the longer the drawn line is. 
  • Saints apparition is now occurring on resurrection, instead of randomly. 
  • Permanent highlight on interactive objects (Bells, Logs, Boats, etc.).
• A broad balancing pass, including making enemy number scale with difficulty, Demons spawning raids as soon as they land in their crater, etc.

Key Features: 

• Be All powerful!: Being the administrator of Hell comes with many perks. Some of these include the ability to wield administrative magic to influence the world above you.
• Hell Your Way: Mold the caves of Hell to your own deepest and darkest desires. Yes there will be paperwork but one of the Imployees you hire will take care of it. You need more time to live out your hellish architect fantasies.  
• Seven Deadly Sins: Make sure your souls go through an effective "re-education" to avoid a buildup of their Sins across many lives... no one wants to face the demonic invasion that will inevitably result from having too much corruption in the world.

Sintopia is coming to PC (Steam) in 2026.