Cipheur

I thought the concept was interesting so I tried it out, but it's not that fun when I actually played it. Or maybe I'm just stupid hahaha. Most often I was just doing a trial and error.

I was so excited to see this game come across my recommended games, I can't believe I missed this when it came out. I always love trying free games, as many (including this one) are extremely fun and deserve more attention. A few minor critiques I have about the interface: 1. Navigating between letters is a bit tedious as I end up using the mouse more than typing to move. It breaks the immersion a bit but not so much that it breaks the fun. 2. The music is only one song on loop, but this isn't uncommon for free games. 3. There isn't a story connecting the cyphers. There's a political theme throughout all the levels but I would enjoy it more if there was a bit more whimsy behind the game. Nothing crazy, especially since this is free. I love that someone made this and it has so many positive reviews. I would pay for a refined version of this as it's already a great premise and the creator seems to have a good grasp on puzzle design. I recommend giving it a try even if it's not your typical style of game.

I really wanted to like this game, truly, and I did at first, but then I played cipher 37, which reads "roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic and so am I." As someone with both a psychosis spectrum disorder (not going to say which) and Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as "multiple personality disorder", but hasnt been called that since the 90s), this joke makes both of my disorders the butt of the joke, and it was really dissapointing to see. Schizophrenia doesn't result in "multiple personalities" more often called alters, unless as a delusion which is significantly different to being an entire differetn person. The "voices" we often are described to hear arent literal other alter's voices in our head, they are often external and often intusive voices that say the opposite to what we feel, random or repeated phrases, or sometimes ramble incoherently. Compared to my experience with DID where alters have coherent thought patterns, behavoiurs, wants, needs, goals, feelings, preferences, etc. The way people with psychosis sometimes suddenly change into believing a different version of events or reality is something entirely different to having alters which is being different people in ones mind. This is a common misnomer and stigmatizing portrayal of people whith psychosis that confuses us with plurlaity and gives a flase impression of both disorders, meaning people with pshycosis and plural systems alike are not given the respect, dignity or care they need. I've seen people incorrectly labeled as faking having DID by medical "professionals" because they happen to have psychosis too, when they are commonly found together. DID, OSDD1 and similar dissociative disorders as well as plurality result in multiple identities, literally different people in ones mind that often take control over the shared body, sometimes called personalities. People making these kinds of jokes fail to understand what both schizophrenia and DID/OSDD/plurality are and conflate the two because of outdated and incorrect assumptions or science that has since been debunked or changed. I also hate when my experience having DID and psychosis is turned into a joke for neurotypicals to laugh at us without understanding or even trying to empathize with our reality. Its quite frankly ableist and sanist. I dont care if its "just a quote" its something, a sensitivity reader wouldve spotted and removed it immediately. I will not be playing the rest of the game, even if it was fun and free, becuse i cannot interact positivley with things that have made a joke at the expense of my existance. 29 DLCs is a bit much.

Simply puzzle, although I'm not fan of the constant how-bad-the-government-is quotes [strike] And the achievements being behind a paywall [/strike] EDIT: My bad, there are a few free DLCs to this game which I didn't see until scrolling further down through the list. Still though, not fan of the constant government quotes. Also, I just finished all 100 basic quotes which felt as less of a puzzle and more of repetitive sentences with a brute force simulation to it (a lot of afk moments added to the time) Oh yea, and if you wanna play the DLCs, you might need to reinstall the game after adding DLCs to your library, I had to

i enjoy playing a few levels inbetween tasks as a way to relax. i realy apreciate the variaty in subjects and the fact it autofills all the same letters for you, makes it a lot smoother to play!

As somebody who's done a lot of research into the history of cyphers, and has created many of my own, this game is just guesswork. If it used an actual cypher that could be fun, but it just seems to be some random quotes with the letters randomized.

A fun cipher game. I'd like to see longer messages to decode. The various difficulty modes can be very challenging.