
Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.
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[h2] 你不能将一个PDF称之为游戏 [/h2] 这是一款极其硬核的破译密码的“游戏”,没有任何教学、过渡,题目就在黑板上,现在你可以开始解答了。过程中需要频繁借助第三方软件进行大量的知识阅读和学习,如果解不出来,大概率不是你逻辑有问题,而是没学过相关知识。 并且由于该类型的特殊性,中文应该是不可实现了 主观上我认为这些密码学的知识还挺有趣的,打开了新领域的大门,又是被人类智慧惊艳的一次。[b] 背景音乐真是相当好听啊 [/b] 但客观上不推荐绝大部分人游玩……[strike] 想玩的我把题目整成文档发给你 [/strike] 并且个人不太喜欢需要大量学习场外因素才能推理出来的东西 [h3] 综上,评分可以给个7/10,但不推荐玩 [/h3]
This game does not provide the knowledge needed to solve most puzzles I tried, often requiring prier knowledge to solve them. Which to me kind of defeats the purpose of learning cryptography using a game as you need to look it up anyway. I really want to like this game as it introduces new ways of thinking for me but falls flat on the execution. I would only recomend this game if you already have prier knowledge of cryptography otherwise you will need to do a tonne of research for well over half the total puzzles. I struggled with the puzzles I did complete as the game does not give you all of the tools needed to solve everything.
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Pre-game completion atm | ** Completed room 1,2,3,7- some puzzles I took screenshots of and did elsewhere in my free time & haven't been added to my total hours |, but I know what I'm in for Highly recommend for anyone that loves cryptography or ones that are interested in the idea. Mono gives a bit of nostalgia and is usually the area you'll find if you're in or out imo, willing to sit with your notepad and some patience I would plead the case to others or new people that it's worth sticking through to solve things out for yourself and the experience. Don't be pressured to expect to "just know" things and stress yourself out if it's not something you actively practice/do Generally no one is naturally incapable of learning anything, just be willing to break down and rebuild what you believe and think. Consider it a project, not a story game
能理解“有理由打低分”的人,因为作为游戏形式可能缺乏一些游戏性,但是就我个人而言还是比较惊喜的,在steam上能遇到这样一份外行入门(密码学)指南是很宝贵的体验——更何况完全不贵,性价比拉满了。 很喜欢这种对本专业的知识不想学,对别的专业的东西学起来可起劲的感觉(bushi)
Great game. Only wish it had a built in text editor.
Cypher é um jogo que entende muito bem como transformar aprendizado em algo realmente interessante. Em vez de explicar tudo de forma direta, ele faz o jogador sentir curiosidade genuína em aprender como cada sistema funciona. Resolver uma cifra aqui não parece só completar um puzzle, mas entender a lógica por trás de uma mensagem escondida. Uma das melhores partes é como o jogo desperta interesse real por criptografia. Jogando, comecei a aprender mais sobre a cifra Vigenère e sobre a Enigma Machine, não apenas como conceitos históricos, mas como métodos que realmente exigiam raciocínio, interpretação e atenção aos padrões. O jogo consegue ensinar sem parecer uma aula, e isso faz toda a diferença. Também é impossível não pensar no caso da cifra Z340 do Zodiac Killer, decifrada em 2020 por David Oranchak, Sam Blake e Jarl Van Eycke após décadas sem solução. A mensagem completa dizia: "I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASN’T ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH" É interessante perceber como casos reais como esse tornam a criptografia ainda mais fascinante quando você começa a entender os métodos usados por trás das cifras. Cypher pode parecer simples visualmente, mas é um jogo muito inteligente na maneira como desperta curiosidade e transforma conhecimento em parte do próprio gameplay.
I don't believe any people solved the whole game by their own, or not 99.9999% of people. Some hints are even more confusing for someone doesn't already know the answer, and the answer is stupidly quirky and specific, and it wouldn't take a dumbass to know the answer after he knows the specific quirk. Sometimes you can solve a puzzle within 5 minutes but the next one will take 5 hours and you have tracked every pixel placement of the puzzle and still got no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue, because of that specific quirk. It's like that famous avgn example, in Castlevania 2, you must carry an orb to a place then kneel for a set of time, then a tornado out of nowhere will carry you to the next stage, very fun, very intelligent of you to figure that out. It only adds frustration when you find out the stupid secret. Maybe that's because I don't have prior knowledge to cryptology or whatnot. Not single player friendly, no pattern learning practice, not beginner friendly.
I was prepared to get a lecture over a puzzle game but still, this game feels worse than reading a textbook because there's nothing to learn from...
不止普通的解密码,还需要及其跳跃的思维和丰富的知识储备,还得上网查一些东西
四个半小时跟着前两个房间的信息了解密码学,再用30分钟确认自己并不是这块料👍 [spoiler]INVISIBLE INK能算密码也太扯淡了[/spoiler]
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