It's such a confused game; What wants it to be? It is not a digital museum through encryption history, since it is lacking basic explanation about the more advanced puzzles like Vigenère and Enigma.

It is also not an interactive puzzle, since there is no interactivity in the game whatsoever. You just read the text, grab a notepad and type in the answer when you're done, even at the Enigma and "challenge" (read: random puzzles without introduction about their mechanics, except the devs text to just google it) puzzles.

I expected it to be like TIS-100, or at least 25% of the quality of that game. Cipher just left me with a sour taste in my mouth and the feeling of getting ripped off; It is exactly everything that gives small devs a bad name.

Read Wikipedia, one of Elonka Dunin's great books or play the countless of browser encryption games; You'll feel a lot better.

One man's come up is just another man's trash.

Loved Hexcells, and this subject matter is intriguing; but came to the realisation that playing these games without a Dark Mode (not included here) feels like staring into the Sun.

It's barely a game, you spend more time alt tabbed programming than in the actual game. It's just a list of texts for you to decipher placed in a 3d environment. Could've at least let you copy ciphertexts to a clipboard instead of having to manually type them.
There's no reason for it to be a "game". It doesn't teach you anything, just makes you guess what kind of cipher did the author use.
Just go to wechall and do some crypto challenges instead.

If you love to solve ciphers then maybe this is a game for you. I think it would be better on sale, and all you do is solve ciphers so there is not much story or anything else to it. I also think it is very difficult and the hints are not always very helpful so if you are going to play and get stuck you may want to try using a guide for hints. I don't think the game is bad but it is not my cup of tea.

It's not friendly for newbie who have passion to learn cipher. It is real hard and hint is not so helpful enough tho.

This game is hard. I like and play many puzzle games but couldn't finish this one. I like the idea and the aesthetic but in the end it wasn't for me.

Well, I loved it I hated it but I can't recommend this game unless if you wanna take your step to challenge the puzzles with your creativity and your knowledge about cryptography.

Cypher offers some of Cryptography puzzles where it can be solved by playing alone but there are some puzzles that need to be solved as a team or outside of the game. Solving the puzzles REALLY need patience - focus - think. And remember, a pen & a paper (as the store page says).

I admit that my head hurts & I can't beat this game without any clues or computer-assisted (especially the Challenge Chamber). Hints in this game were not bad, just not as useful as I thought. It offers 1 hint, LITERALLY 1 hint. The only puzzles that I (and to those who had helped me) can solved (not mostly) were Steganography, Monoalphabetic, Binary, and Enigma.

My apology for thumbs down but Cypher really is a-whole-nother-level-of-puzzle-game. I will never-ever-and-ever be able to beat this game.

While I had some fun moments, I personally don't think I can recommend a game about ciphers that'll have to make a player go their ways into acquiring tools outside of the game. Would've helped if there's an in-game UI for the substitutions and stuff, and not the game being just pieces of puzzles plastered on walls in a hollow, bleak, white environment, which some people have said, best put in paper. But then again, maybe this is just simply my preference

So many letters, yet the only ones that factor in my assessment are WASD. When they're forced, so is the downvote.