Cryptmaster

A pretty smart mix of dungeon crawler, hangman, and Typing of the Dead. The "guess a word" mechanics of leveling work well with encouraging enemy encounters and solving riddles. I wish there was more meat to the progression (most words guessed did nothing and eventually allowed you to add a letter to your name to increase health, which felt sparse).

It's for a certain type of person. I found the objective of recovering your undead party's memories conceptually interesting, and the cryptmaster's VA is really pleasant to listen to, but I didn't like the overall gameplay, and the game's world kind of bored me. Felt the vibe was similar to a retro point-and-click game, combined with hangman/wordle. Deserves to be recommended because of the effort the devs have invested, and it's probably a great game for people who enjoy word games.

Best part of this game that u use your memory and your typing skills improve. U also have many riddles in here and card game WHATEVER that I enjoyed the most. Just add best cards and remove the worst...

Cryptmaster has a very novel central concept: typing to guess and activate character skills, and to solve various riddles. However, it became very repetitive a few hours in. Combat was always one enemy vs your group, and the enemies had very few, if any, distinguishing characteristics or special moves. The characters in your group gain a lot of different skills, but none of them seemed distinctly useful relative to their typing cost. I ended up just spamming the starting abilities a lot to finish fights quicker. I personally did not enjoy the black-and-white aesthetic. It was easy to get disoriented in the world, as the areas looked too similar without color. The basic idea of "typing as combat and puzzle solving" is quite novel, but I just don't think the game does enough interesting with the idea to justify the game length.

It's a fun little game where you use typed words to fight enemies and solve riddles. Some of the riddles are extremely easy...but some are extremely difficult, though. It has a horror-esque noire feel to the game, but it's also got funny crude elements involved. There is a card game inside of the game called "Whatever" and it's really fun in my opinion. I still go back to play it every now and then, even after beating the game. I really wish there existed a physical version of the Whatever game that I could purchase to play with friends. I do have some gripes other than some of the riddles being pretty convoluted. When you beat the game, you probably won't even have half of the character's words (memories) unlocked, nor will you have half of the total number of cards for Whatever. Even after playing for a while, I still am missing several of the Whatever cards, and I don't think I will ever obtain them all. There isn't even a catalog or master list online anywhere to tell you what ones you are missing, or how to get them (they added over 100 cards in 2024, so the wiki/fandom is outdated). This grind to complete these 2 things is absolutely grueling. Also, some of the sound design in the game drove me nuts. There are a few words that you can use for one of the characters that will spawn a phantom dog. This dog will yip and bark constantly, even after the fight is over. Quite annoying. Similarly there are fairies that will constantly blurt out letters that you can hear from quite far away in some places. When you're sitting trying to think of how to solve a riddle, this noise is VERY annoying. Likewise, there is a place in the game where you can challenge some NPC's to games of Whatever, but while you're playing, you can constantly hear one of them screaming "OPEN ME!!! O-P-E-N MEEEEEEE!!!". It's unrelenting. I really wish they had accounted for these things, but all in all I'd say I enjoyed it.

挺有意思的，根据描述猜物品名字，就是纯英文，英语词汇量少点就会很难受了 哦还有，没有对话回放记录真的难受，有些对话我还没来得及看完就没了，不知道刚叽里咕噜啥呢只能自己乱搞

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...