Syrinscape: Year in review

2025 has been an amazing year for Syrinscape! We’ve built many hours of content, played many games, explored everything sound can do at the gaming table and had fun connecting with the community at shows and online. To help celebrate 2025, we’ve gathered together some fun stats you might find interesting, including the most played back content in Syrinscape, but first a little insight into the thing we’ve been working hardest on this year.

Syrinscape Nova launched

Obviously the REALLY big thing for us has been getting Syrinscape Nova to EARLY ACCESS. We started off January, working with the Syrinscape team, gathering together all the feedback we have ever received, dreaming big and bringing as many ideas as possible to the table [pun intended]. We then tested these ideas with a wonderful group of alpha testers who gave us absolutely brilliant, detailed and frank feedback. We believe this process has put us firmly on the right track to delivering something the Syrinscape community REALLY wants and needs.

Finally in early December, we decided it was time to pull the trigger and let people see Syrinscape Nova! There are still a few important features missing, and a few bugs, but we are SUPER happy that people can now play with this wonderful new Syrinscape tool.

With Syrinscape Nova, we hope we will be able to AGAIN revolutionise the way people use sound at the gaming table. We’ve done that twice before: first with the original Syrinscape Fantasy Player (bringing immersive, never-repeating, customizable audio to TTRPGs for the first time), second bringing Syrinscape’s huge library and amazing sound machine to remote play with the Web Player. With its super-streamlined and intuitive interface, we truly believe Syrinscape Nova will open up immersive, cinematic sound to even more people at the gaming table, helping to make games great wherever people are brave enough to play!

Try Syrinscape Nova for FREE

Try out Syrinscape Nova for yourself! Read more on the Nova Landing Page, or just drop straight in on nova.syrinscape.com. The whole point of Syrinscape Nova is being zero-explanation-easy-to-use!

We’ve made a Soundboard of specifically curated content available to non-subscribers during the EARLY ACCESS period, and of course, Fantasy and SuperSyrin subscribers enjoy full access to the whole Nova library.

New content in Syrinscape

So while all this has been going on, what else has happened in Syrinscape? We love a good Year in Review, so here are a few stats from the Syrinscape servers too. Here we go!

Built by Syrinscape content creators

This year, Syrinscape’s in-house content creators created more than 4000 brand new music tracks and samples with a total duration of more than 35 hours. Our content creators mixed Syrinscape’s now 55K strong sample library into more than 2500 lovingly crafted ambiences, grouped into more than 250 new SoundSets (supporting adventures from all the great RPG publishers, including Wizards of the Coast with Dungeons & Dragons, Paizo with Pathfinder and Starfinder, Chaosium with Call of Cthulhu, Kobold Press and many others).

Content uploads by the Syrinscape community

It wasn’t only the Syrinscape content creators doing sound work either! Syrinscape users uploaded more than 30,000 samples at a total duration of 78 days (that’s almost seven million seconds of audio)!

Content created by AI

Absolutely ZERO. Read more about this in Syrinscape’s AI policy FAQ section. And join the discussion about the policy on the Syrinscape Forums.

Some fun playback stats in Syrinscape

We don’t track individual user data or playback, but we do see how much playback each TYPE of content gets. So here’s some more fun stats using that data.

Top Games played back in Syrinscape

1. D&D
2. Pathfinder
3. Call of Cthulhu

Fastest growing publishers

1. Kobold Press playback is up 33% since the beginning of the year
2. Call of Cthulhu playback is up 30%
3. Pathfinder playback is up 27%
4. Loke playback is up ∞, since they are brand new in Syrinscape and had NO playback at all in January. Now, lots of people are enjoying Syrinscape’s Loke content!

Most popular individual SoundSets

1. Brindol Town (free content people can use in Syrinscape without even making an account)
2. Dungeon Depths (free content people can use in Syrinscape without even making an account)
3. Curse of Strahd: The lands of Barovia (Official Dungeons & Dragons adventure content)
4. Music – Hell’s Rebels (Syrinscape’s best loved music SoundSet)
5. Hell’s Rebels: Trouble in Kintargo (Official Pathfinder adventure content)

Most popular OneShots

1. Thunder claps from the Storm SoundSet (clearly nothing beats a good dramatic thunder clap at just the right moment!)
2. Force missile from Bugbear Battle (“I’m attacking the darkness”)
3. Firebolt from Wizard Spells D&D
4. Cure wounds from Cleric spells D&D
5. Orb activation from “Under a fell black sky” from Syrinscape’s free to play, fully statted out, sound-supported adventure page
6. Victory! from Stony Beach (great for when players land that critical hit)
7. Sad Trombone from Stony Beach (for all those natural 1s)
8. Ice Spell from Bugbear battle
9. Detect Magic from Wizard Spells D&D
10. Huge explosion from Modern Weapons (BOOM!!!)

Anything we’ve missed?

Are there any other stats we could be including? If you have any more ideas, don’t hesitate to jump on the forum post about this blog on the Syrinscape forums, or comment below and we’ll see what we can do.

Happy Holidays from us!

Whatever games you play, whatever sounds you enjoy, whatever your game style, we here at Syrinscape wish you a very merry holiday break, happy family times, great games and most importantly good rolls!