Cryptmaster

Incredibly creative, engaging, and fun. I love it when games push boundaries and invent new mechanics you've never seen before, and this game does that in so many ways!

I think this is a good time, but depending on what kind of player you are it might well outstay its welcome somewhat. Completing the main quest is a good time. The writing is pretty fun, and exploring the world and vocabulary is fun and rewarding But there's a lot of content in the game that just wasn't for me; if you're not a fan of cryptic crossword puzzles there are big parts of the game that are better to just skip. Similarly, the minigame (called 'whatever' is just not that interesting, and a lot of content is centered around it). Basically; if you want to go through the story it will take you about 6-10 hours or so, and I think that's worth the price of admission. If you like the cryptic puzzles there's a lot more content though.

This game is fun, with a very unique (to me, anyway) art style and gameplay loop. The game recognizes lots of words in various situations, though still somehow less than I'd like. The demo ends abruptly but the game itself picks right back up where the demo drops you off which is nice. I haven't finished the game yet but I'm enjoying my time here. If you're looking for a typing game that doesn't take itself too seriously, this is a great example of the genre. And despite the visuals offered in the previews and such, it's not particularly scary or gory (which is a plus, to me).

When the typing and spelling game from childhood grows up, dies, gets raised from the dead, and then keeps adventuring. And the number of options in answering questions is staggering. For example, farting to desecrate a shrine to a a self-righteous, overly aggressive, weirdo of a deity.

gets repeditive too quickly

It's just kind of not good.

Once you get a hang of the combat its addicting to mess around in

Why do they say "cringed"

I couldnt finish Cryptmaster. Its baffling to me its as highly rated as it is (94% at time of review). Cryptmaster has a really neat gimmick with this word based combat and text based dungeon crawling, which is runs into the ground after the first 2 or 3 hours. All this game is a series of rooms that have a couple monsters in them which are littered with riddle and question based word puzzles. Over and over and over. I thought I was at the ending when it opened into another area which wasnt even the last area. I called it after that. I can appreciate a gimmick but they didnt develop it and then had the gall to ask for 15 hours of my time...