Room 40

Very intriguing story ruined by some very weird cipher choices. The typos are sometimes annoying, yes, but you can probably manage those. But the game completely ceases being a game about halfway through when you are given a polyalphabetic cipher with 2+ alphabets with basically 0 useful analysis and no quality-of-life UX for attempting a solution in the substitution table mode. That is because those modes seem to have been created with much simpler ciphers in mind and at that point you are basically forced to do frequency analysis, etc by hand. If that's something you like - go for it. Otherwise skip.

I can't do anything during the first puzzle, but look closer at the note or go to the menu. No clue what I'm doing wrong. Other than that it would've been such a good game, I think

i like that its deciphering cryptocodes

Such a fun puzzle game, loved it

It's a simple game graphically with an interesting story. The codes are quite challenging, but not impossible to solve with time and thought. it's also an interesting tutorial on encoded messaging and the ways they can be decrypted is quite varied. Challenging but a nice game to relax and puzzle through.

This would make a very fun high school assignment, but is a very boring game. I thought I'd enjoy the decoding puzzles, but the story, the hints, the challenges... honestly it's all as dry as the Sahara. Don't do it.

The main character is well developed, and I like the way her story was told. The puzzles are easy at first but the difficulty ramps up towards the end: the q bomb ciphers and the bonus ciphers are too hard for me. I would have preferred the UI to be better, and for there to be better hints, but as a whole for the price its pretty good. I would recommend this to people who have some form of experience cracking ciphers, because the way the game teaches you to do it is not good. When playing, have a word finder/unscrambler on hand, as well as some pen and paper and you should be good.

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i have no idea how ratings are only at 74% considering it's literally free

Its a really good game about ciphers and cryptography