Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $24.99. It has been as low as $16.24.
- Story and characters: 121 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 60 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 57 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 105 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 2k player reviews · updated 4 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
- Music and audio design is solid throughout with some great voice acting and comedic writing in spots.
Like in most RPGs, there is plenty of grind involved in progression, but the grind mostly consists in word-guessing and riddle-solving itself, mixed with a tolerable amount of fishing (which was the least fun minigame) and combat (slightly repetitive), so it's enjoyable enough as far as grind goes.
- Music and audio design is solid throughout with some great voice acting and comedic writing in spots.
Visually, Cryptmaster adopts a stark, monochrome art style that feels both old-school and intentionally stylized.
I appreciated the accessibility feature of hitting enter to automatically type for things like bugs and statues as it saved on excess busywork.
I played mostly on Steam Deck but the bug name typing was too annoying so i switched to my desktop pc, sadly because it works very well on the Steam Deck and i enjoyed the controller play style more than typing but the bugs name are way too long to type on the controller, everything wouldn't be a problem if you can use mouse and controller at the same time but seems like it's not possible, when you choose to play with controller the mouse and keyboard seems to be disabled so you can't use the touchscreen from the steam deck, being able to use both would be so much better so i hope the devs can consider it if they see this review.
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Currently $24.99. The lowest we've tracked is $16.24.
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