Cypher

Cypher

released on Feb 20, 2018

Cypher

released on Feb 20, 2018

Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography. Explore the museum and learn about the history of cryptography, from simple substitution ciphers to the Enigma machine and beyond. Grab a pen and paper and test your deciphering skills across 40+ challenging puzzles.


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I will never beat this game. Not legitimately anyway. As I set this down at 2:30 AM, content that I have exhausted the limits of my waking mind, I smile. This shit is ridiculous. The puzzles are so SO SO easy at the start that its cute. It hypes you up, puts some pep in your step. I found myself wagging my finger at the screen. "Oh dev, you sly dog :)", I would say, as I spotted the half hidden small dot that was the key to the puzzle. But my god. Chamber three feels hard? Chambers one through six are absolute fucking HELL. And they are so fun as well. I don't think you will ever experience as soul crushing a moment while playing video games as when you try to look up little additional hints online for a puzzle, and finally wring the last ounce of brain power out of your head and into the massively overcrowded paper in front of you; only for the solution of the puzzle to be a cheeky little pun. I refuse to gamer rage, so I broke down instead.

Setting both you and I's inevitable ineptitudes aside, it was always refreshing to step into a new topic of Cryptography and see that Mr. Brown had tidied up a little space for learning some new facts about my new passion that he had introduced me to. It's clear to see the dev loves all this with all his heart.

Now, one last thing. The challenge puzzles. I don't think a video game puzzle has ever smacked me in the face harder as when I looked up the solution to the first puzzle after a good 20 minutes of thinking. It all clicked in my head within a split second and I was left feeling guiltier than a dog that pissed on the rug. Please stay away from all guides online except for the ones that advertise exclusively hints. Those ones are good.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention not to play this if you like Claire De Lune because after 10 min you will despise it.

It says mastered but I just used a guide, this game is borderline impossible otherwise.