Synkify Studios – Games and software studio in Amsterdam, makers of Guess the Origin and One to Paradise

The MC-dex with gold rims and a graffiti livery in a fiery studio

Synkify Studios presents

20 cars. 5 rounds.
Only one reaches paradise.

A physics party royale where the city burns below you and the arena climbs higher every round, through the smoke, past the rooftops and above the clouds.

Watch the ascent See the gallery

In development · PC / Steam Made with Unreal Engine 5

The premise

The city is burning. Lava floods the streets, volcanoes split the skyline and twenty drivers have one way out: up. Every round the arena climbs higher. Cars get wrecked, armour gets torn off, the pack gets cut. Only one reaches paradise.

20Cars on the starting grid

5Rounds, each one higher

9180mMetres climbed, from the burning street up to paradise

1Winner. Nobody else.

The ascent

Five rounds.
One way up.

Cars launching off the grid on a burning city street

Round 01 / 05

The Street

Twenty cars on the grid, a city on fire around them. Round one is a street race through hazards and wrecking balls, and the lava is rising behind the pack.

20 cars
Gauntlet Run
Street level

Round 02 / 05

Into the Smoke

Twelve left. The arena lifts off the street and a new mode is drawn: mines, a ticking bomb, a ring that keeps shrinking. Doors and bumpers start coming off.

12 cars
Random mode
180 m

Round 03 / 05

Above the Rooftops

Eight cars, higher than every tower. Below you the streets glow orange and the volcanoes keep erupting. Fall off now and it is a very long way down.

8 cars
Skyline
550 m

A battered car on the arena edge above the clouds

Round 04 / 05

Through the Clouds

Five survivors break through the cloud layer. The fire is gone, the light turns gold, and every hit could push you over the edge.

5 cars
Cloud layer
2,500 m

Round 05 / 05

The Crown

Three cars. One final mode. Whoever gets knocked off falls back through the clouds. Whoever is left standing is lifted towards the light.

3 cars
Final
6,000 m

The winning car with wings and a halo above the clouds

The winner

Paradise

One car makes it. Wings, a halo and the whole lobby watching from below. Then the city burns again, and nineteen people want a rematch.

1 car
Paradise
9,180 m

How you survive

Built to be
broken.

Every car is a stack of real parts held together by bolts and luck. Hit something hard and you will watch your hood cartwheel down the road.

A car launched by an explosion, panels flying

Everything breaks

Doors, bumpers, hoods and wheels tear off on impact. Damage builds from smoke to fire to a full explosion, and the wreck stays on the road for everyone else to dodge.

Sparks flying off a bolted-on side armour plate

Bolt on armour

Bull bars and steel plate bumpers, fitted per car. They take the hit, until they fall off.

A wrecking ball swinging over a car in the street

A new mode every round

Street race, minefield, hot potato. Each round draws its mode, so no two climbs play the same.

A yellow coupe accelerating, exhaust glowing

Real-world handling

Every car is tuned from its real spec sheet: weight, torque curve, gearing and drag. Then pick Assisted, Sport or Simulation steering.

Built for 4K

Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen lighting and Niagara fire, profiled frame by frame to target 120 fps at 4K.

Gallery

Frames from
the fire.

The MC-dex tearing through a neon tunnel, sparks flying — Neon runKey art

Two cars colliding head-on, sparks and debris — Head-onCinematic

Neon-lit wet street in the game — Neon districtIn-engine

The MC-dex in a fiery studio — InfernoKey art

A burning wreck in the street — BurnoutCinematic

Rear armour on a yellow coupe — Rear ramCinematic

The MC-dex on a wet neon street at night — Night cityKey art

Night city street with reflections — The ring roadIn-engine

A car spinning through flames — WreckCinematic

A car with a glowing exhaust racing past shops — Full throttleCinematic

The MC-dex under purple neon — Neon studioKey art

Cars racing side by side at night — The packCinematic

A street in the burning city — IncomingCinematic

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Behind the scenes

Made by hand,
frame by frame.

Every bolt, rust streak and explosion in One to Paradise comes out of our own pipeline. This is what the work looks like on our screens.

01 · Unreal Engine 5

The arena, the city, the climb

The whole match runs in Unreal: Chaos vehicle physics, Lumen lighting, Niagara fire and smoke. The arena never moves. The world sinks around it, round after round.

Match flow, modes and bots in Blueprints
A burning city built from modular blocks
Profiled to target 120 fps at 4K

02 · Blender

Cars made to come apart

Each car is modelled with every door, hood, bumper and wheel as its own breakable part, rigged so the game can blow them off one by one.

Breakable parts with their own pivots
Three levels of detail per car
Explosions simulated as volumes, baked for real time

A car being textured in Substance 3D Painter

03 · Substance 3D Painter

Rust you can read

4K texture sets painted layer by layer: primer chips, bare steel, rust drips, dust and mud, while your paint colour still shows through.

4K exterior, trim and wheel sets
Barn-find patina tuned car by car
Player paint tint baked into the material

01
Model
Breakable cars, city blocks and props in Blender.
02
Paint
4K texture sets in Substance 3D Painter.
03
Simulate
Fire and explosions simulated, then baked to flipbooks.
04
Build
Physics, modes and the ascent in Unreal Engine 5.
05
Tune
Real specs per car, playtested until it feels right.

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