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Sisyphos – Action Game Review
Sisyphos is a Action/Casual/Education game from Florian Grolig, first launched in 5th October 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 375+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sisyphos Stand Out
Sisyphos lets you experience the joy and pain of pushing a rock up a mountain.
"A lesson in humility—a destruction of the human ego" – killscreensdaily.com
"Utterly ridiculous ,utterly pointless and utterly brilliant" pocketgamer.com
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sisyphos is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th February 2024
Recent improvements include:
Sisyphos, the Greek grandmother of all fidget toys, now has a Fidget-Mode. No challenge, just the meditative joy of repeatedly tapping to move. One foot at a time. For all eternity.
Download & Availability
Sisyphos is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Us push rock, rock fall, us sad, us push rock again, us know us won't succeed, but us push rock anyways,us not enjoy it, but us like it, us recomend.
This game feels very frustrating but definitely helped us cope with our short temper.
This game isnt supposed to be fun, and thats why its enjoyable. Its supposed to be torturous, and its exactly that, just like the Greek myth intended it to be. The game will make you feel like youre making progress, but one small slip, and youre done. Failure is devastating, as it should be in a game like this. Losing can be incredibly frustrating, and youll likely give up. Highly recommend.
Really cool light game, we tend to go overboard on games. This is manageable not super stressful and helps us make unconscious connections to our hearing to reaction A+.
Sisyphos is a fantastic game, one which does everything it claims to. It is tedious, boring, and repetitive. A perfect representation of the story of Sisyphus. The art style is plain, but pretty, the movement is janky at first, but can be mastered, and the sound design is pretty good. Our favorite part is that its something to do while we watch YouTube, the YouTube screen fits perfectly above the game and is great for ADHD. 5/5, worth at least trying.
We often play this while commuting on a train or bus. It isn't interrupted by the movement, and lets the journey slip by. Sisyphus's cycle up and down is meditative. We can see how this may not be for some people as there is no "winning" but we enjoy it.
The negative reviews just dont understand. Its literally pushing a rock up a hill, the description tells you exactly what to expect. You are Sisyphus and the game perfectly captures that.
It does as we expected, as all should expect, it puts you through misery, knowing that you are the failure, you are the one who couldnt keep pushing. But it gives you the feeling of being Sisyphus, you have one goal, one purpose, you know your purpose, and even if it is to try and try again, to never truely succeed, would you rather have no purpose at all? Or would you have one given by the gods themselves. One must imagine Sisyphus happy, this game helped us understand that.
Note: The title is a combination of the word Amazing and Fantastic. Yeah, this game gives you exactly what it says in the description. We know right? Most games dont do that. Anyways, we would recommend this game if youre in a car ride or if you have no internet but we just downloaded this game because we have seen countless amounts of Sisyphus memes this year and because we thought it would probably be fun to see a man forced for all eternity to roll a boulder up a hill only for it to fall down and see all his efforts broken for the 100th time. But in the myths Sisyphus has no obligation to roll the boulder up the hill, he just does so because he actually thinks he can do it. Anyways, download this game.
Really good dev, and is nice enough to not give ads. Instead, you choose to use watch an ad, but only if you want to. This deserves a 5 star.
Awesome game! Well done and respects the player, their agency and the optional ads really sold us, gonna be enjoying it for a long time.
Played for 5 minutes then put it down. Ill probably be back tomorrow, found it somewhat therapeutic in tapping over and over. We forgot about all of our worries and got lost in the game. Glad it was made. Not for those with low attention spans.
Its a bored game built for you to endure, love the realism.
We never give reviews but we think this game is a perfect representation of life even if its not very fun after 5 minutes we know Ill be coming back to it again and again.
Its like a metaphor for life ykwim.
The story of this game is amazing and reminds of the futility of trying to escape death. If you know the story you will enjoy this game.
For anyone that want to know how to win, dont let the rock hit your face. It gets harder the further up the mountain you get but once you realize what causes you to lose then you also realize what you must do to win. It is endlessly so technically you cant win but you can at least reach the top. Im interested to see what high score people will get now knowing this.
Its awesome, dont get us wrong its awful but you get what youre signing up for.
Reminds us of valorant ranked :).
Brilliant. Ponder the meaningless of life while messing around on your phone. This is not really a game youll play for long but its a creative idea cleverly executed.
Its like getting over it, but worse, we love it, peak gaming. Remember us when this is fruit ninja level of popular.
This game is so infuriating as a person with a short attention span, which makes it perfect. Just what we were looking for. This game isnt hard or easy, its just extremely infuriating.
This is fun and nice and simple we like it, we wish there were a mode with an endless hill so we can really feel that Sisyphos frustration lol.
Fun for hours and endless fun first you mindlessly push up a rock up a mountain then push it back the other way after you make it to the top such fun.
We developed 40 wrist malfunctions and our parents are divorced. We recommend it.
This game is a perfect digital representation of modern life.
Just like Sisyphus rolling his boulder uphill for eternity, this game offers an endless journey of monotony and despair. The constant tapping and attention needed to continue pushing the boulder makes you feel more trapped in a cycle of pain than any other infinite runner. The only small moment of relief and joy you feel in this game is the small moment between when the boulder rolls back down the hill before you have to start again. Just what we were looking for! 5 stars.
The expectations coming into this game weren't the highest, we push a rock up a hill destined to never reach the top. When we first initially started we were confused but quickly understood the steps, we got up 5 times in a row before finally mistiming and we realized that every time you "complete" the level, it resets. You start again, and again, and again. The same thing every time and you get used to it, and then you fail. It gives a good lesson that we can relate to a lot. Comfortability will ruin everything, life isn't supposed to be comforting but it will continue, and the sun will come up again.
It is not meant to be a game where you can say oh look we won cause you cant there is no way to win, that does not change the fact that it is a great game. It didnt take long for us to get over the hill the first time, and instead of the game saying you won you had to go back up the hill and go back to the starting point all in all a great game, just hard.
This game made us realize that we need to find something better to do. Thank you game.
Love the game it shows the frustration of Sisyphus but we think you should make it more fun somehow.
The struggle alone is enough to fill a man's heart.
Before we played this game, we hated rocks. After playing this game, we still hate rocks. Thank you Sisyphos.
This truly is the game of all time.
We love this game so much. Its not fun, and thats great! Its like a fidget toy in your phone. Its not meant to be fun.
A visitor… Mmmm… Indeed. We have slept long enough. The kingdom of Heaven has long since forgotten our name, and we are EAGER to make them remember. However, the blood of Minos stains your hands, and we must admit, we're curious about your skills, Weapon. And so, before we tear down the cities, and crush the armies of Heaven… You, shall do as an appetizer. Come forth, child of man, and DIE.
Never gets harder or easier the difference is the side hes on this is great game some how you would think its boring pushing a boulder up a hill and cursed to never reach the top but its a really fun game.
Our favorite part is when you push the rock. Its our favorite part because the amount passion he has to push that rock. It shows determination and inspires us to push a rock.
This is a game about pushing a rock up a hill, theres literally nothing else, pretty much at all. And that can be kinda fun, not in the we enjoyed that way, or even in the we accomplished that way, but more in the Its relaxing and nice to think to in the background kinda way It isnt fun, hard, or particularly interesting. Its just like the torture of Sisyphus, endless suffering, and here you are playing it.
He do the walk walk slow but he walk! 10/10.
Great game, really shares the story of Sisyphos, it makes you feel the pain and understand the feeling of perseverance.
It is not for fun, just to relax like knocking at a wooden fish.
This is the worst hame that we have ever played its so frustrating when you have to start over its makes you feel as if youre inside the game its a game of misery despair and doom for eternity the game is so boring the moment we tried it we deleted it it made us feel like we would never reach the top try to do better whoever made this game or else you wont be getting good reviews trust us we had second thoughts before downloading it.
Like others said, it fulfills its purpose and isnt fun. Do you think Sisyphus was enjoying his third time going up that mountain? No, so neither should you.
Its boring frankly, and really a pointless challenge, but thats the spirit of the myth and so it fits the game.
Counter to a lot of reviews, we found this game fun initially. The fun game from having a goal. First, learn the rhythm. Then crest the mountain. Then make it back. Then build a streak. However at that point you basically have no reason to continue. Sure you could build your multiplier to infinity and top the leaderboards, but Ive found that Ive no desire to return to this game that we consider good. Maybe thats the point and thats fine. Our gamer brain just craves more goals to climb towards. The irony is that it would be more fun if it wasnt possible to get to the top.
We dont find this game frustrating. Its in the same category as Daddy Long Legs, Verticow, Drop Not, Skyward, etc. The point is to get further each time. There are only a handful of achievements, and no cute, silly collectables most games in this category accrue. The biggest difference is that the pace of Sisyphos is more meditative. We can narrow our focus down to the placement of his feet, little changes in the path beneath him, and the pace of our breath. Is this therefore not fun fun? We suppose not. We find it restful, though. Its worth the offering for that.
There are peaks. Sisyphus pushed the rock without peak. We like this game but we would like it more if there was an unending hill with slowly increasing difficulty. Maybe ways to customize the cosmetics would be good as well.
We LOVE this app so much! Its beautiful! And chill:) Only problem, is that we cant listen to our audiobook at the same time, even if the music is muted. If anyone knows how to get around that we would appreciate it:).
ADD VIBRATIONS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE UH HERE ARE MY REASONS 1. It would be more realistic bc sisyphus probably like felt the rock or something idk 2. Fidget mode would be a lot more uh fidgety we guess 3. Why made a A game when you could make a A+ game with even more features! (we are a salesman) anyway yeah add vibrations.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 81.64 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Florian Grolig
Last updated: 14th February 2024 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Florian Grolig