CRYPTIC

I want to first off thank the developer for the free Steam key to this game to evaluate this game. After seeing that I've trashed their two previous hiking simulator games in years past, I'm kind of surprised about them offering a free key, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e3iBF7YCrs&t=132s So how is it? Surprisingly good from my first 40 minutes or so playing it. It's well written so far and definitely creepy. I haven't yet played long enough to get to one of the five endings, but I have played enough to say it looks like it's worth the $3 price tag for sure. It really depends on how the full game ans story plays out though so playing it might should give me better clarity on it. However, it's easy to see that this looks like their best game to date, and to that I congratulate the developer(s) on realizing they might be better at writing a text adventure than they are at making 3D hiking games lol. I like it so far and am giving this one a RECOMMEND! Absolutely deserved and I love that this developer made a big change to try and make a better game!

CRYPTIC is an old school text adventure (think Zork, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galazy, Adventure etc) only this was published in 2020, so someone didn't get the rather important message... computers have graphics now. Needless to say releasing a game that compares poorly to 1980's BBC Micro text games in 2020 leads to complete and utter failure, which the player counts below clearly show. So this is a text adventure, you type commands to the interface and the game cleverly tells you it doesn't understand what you were trying to do... yeah, this is no LLM chatbot, it really is a tight selection of acceptable syntax that it will handle. And unlike games like Zork, this is really badly written, almost as cringey as Steam visual novel/ebooks are. The game engine itself isn't the product of the developer, this is using Gluxle from Andrew Plotkin, so this is just the result of filling out some markup with some cringey writing and then burning $100 on Steam Direct. Imagine if all the money amateur developers waste on Steam Direct with garbage nobody wants was put to charity or something. Anyway... this is barely a game by 21st century standards. It's worse than the games of the era this is trying and failing to imitate. There's nothing of value here for gamers. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D text... no graphics. It might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was [b]only 2 players[/b]. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 130 million gamers on Steam and well over 140,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 140,000+ games on Steam? CRYPTIC is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Yeah, this guy is trying to charge three bucks for a text adventure worse than the free ones you can play in a browser. You can play Zork online for free if you want. The quality problems and defects with this game makes the asking price totally unrealistic. It is impossible to recommend this to gamers here on Steam. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]

Great game I've been enjoying and replaying ! After playing "Stories Untold" and "Open Sorcery", I was looking for another game that would allow me to "type in" my way through the story ! It uses all your imagination to find your way, find the clues and avoid the "Game Over" traps. Original and excellent kind of game !

Very intriguing, solid, old-shool IF. This is only my first impression after 1h of gaming but my opinion is at moment very good. If you are a enthusiast of the text adventure genre like me this is a mandatory purchase. Thanks to Shoho Games to keep alive this type of games, I'll buy all your next games!

没中文 没成就 《CRYPTIC》 《CRYPTIC》是一款经典的文字冒险游戏，类似于《Zork》，你需要通过输入文字指令来推进剧情并解开游戏中的各种谜题。这意味着游戏完全基于文字 —— 你不会看到任何图形。 在《CRYPTIC》中，你被一个响亮的男性声音惊醒，它通过隐藏在这个黑暗而陌生房间各处的扬声器回荡。毫无疑问，你被绑架了。说话者自称 “游戏大师”，并邀请你参加一场智力游戏。如果你能在十二小时内逃出地穴，你将赢得一千万美元的现金奖励。然而，如果你失败了，你将失去生命。虽然这一切听起来似乎很简单，但你永远不能低估 “游戏大师” 的扭曲程度。你需要解谜并收集物品，以摆脱你将面临的危险处境。你必须在时间耗尽之前完成这一切才能获胜。也许你还能弄清楚 “游戏大师” 的真实身份，以及为什么在所有人当中，偏偏是你被选中参加这场可疑的游戏？ 特色： ・超过 80 个房间 ・引人入胜的互动小说故事 ・黑暗的氛围 ・多种结局（5 种不同结局），取决于你在游戏过程中的选择 注：本游戏净收入的 10% 将捐赠给 #TeamTrees。