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Cryptmaster
SAY ANYTHING in this bizarre dungeon adventure where words control everything. Fill in the blanks with text or voice to uncover lost abilities, embark on strange quests, and solve mindbending riddles. Can you conquer the crypt and uncover the mystery at the heart of CRYPTMASTER?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
76 of the 93 reviews raise this.
15 of the 93 reviews raise this.
“10/10 top to bottom. Visual style is unique, effective, and easy on the eyes. Humor is clever but doesn't overstay its welcome. Story and characters are well written, well designed, coherent, believable, but subtle…”
“If the description, "[i]Typing of the Dead[/i] meets [i]Wizardry[/i]" sounds up your alley, boy howdy, do I have the game for you. The four intrepid heroes who gave their lives centuries ago saving the City are up,…”
“A typing game? In my collection? Yeah, it's fun! Lovely silly writing, easy enough even for a non-native english speaker (hello!) and I love you Mr Cryptmaster. A short but good time.”
14 of the 93 reviews raise this.
“Hilarious. Original. Fun. Genius. Making the song rhymes was the best part so far.”
“Incredibly clever game. The pinnacle of mouse and keyboard (well, mostly just keyboard) gaming, IMO. The game has its limits, but I was continually delighted by how much responsive dialogue there was to the words I…”
14 of the 93 reviews raise this.
“10/10 top to bottom. Visual style is unique, effective, and easy on the eyes. Humor is clever but doesn't overstay its welcome. Story and characters are well written, well designed, coherent, believable, but subtle…”
“Very decent dungeon crawler where you use words to attack and solve riddles to get loot. Great concept, lots of humor and stylish graphics, but sometimes a bit repetitive and the combat lacks depth. Definitely worth…”
“Very interesting concept, well executed, cool visuals, interesting story”
4 of the 93 reviews raise this.
“10/10 top to bottom. Visual style is unique, effective, and easy on the eyes. Humor is clever but doesn't overstay its welcome. Story and characters are well written, well designed, coherent, believable, but subtle…”
“Unique, funny, doesn't overstay its welcome. Brilliant!”
“A typing game? In my collection? Yeah, it's fun! Lovely silly writing, easy enough even for a non-native english speaker (hello!) and I love you Mr Cryptmaster. A short but good time.”
19 of the 93 reviews raise this · 15 of them still recommend the game.
“"I can see the vision" is the best thing i can say. The humor is there, the story telling probably gets even better later on but the gameplay is just... sluggish? Get a "puzzle" answer wong? repeat the last 5 things you…”
“concept is fantastic, but the execution is disappointing. gameloop gets boring fast, every conversation overstays its welcome, and the ending was uninspired and unfulfilling. the humor is less funny and more cute. i…”
“Unfortunately, it stumbles in significantly impactful areas (and in the areas where it falters, it'll do so repeatedly): - The riddles are very hit-or-miss and are fraught with moon logic at times, or sometimes…”
15 of the 93 reviews raise this · 13 of them still recommend the game.
“"I can see the vision" is the best thing i can say. The humor is there, the story telling probably gets even better later on but the gameplay is just... sluggish? Get a "puzzle" answer wong? repeat the last 5 things you…”
“Such a cool and unique mechanic to build a game around- and you get quite a lot with what you pay for. But... You gotta be good with words- or like, very persistent. I think I might just be a little dumb. Also, an…”
“Unfortunately, it stumbles in significantly impactful areas (and in the areas where it falters, it'll do so repeatedly): - The riddles are very hit-or-miss and are fraught with moon logic at times, or sometimes…”
9 of the 93 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“concept is fantastic, but the execution is disappointing. gameloop gets boring fast, every conversation overstays its welcome, and the ending was uninspired and unfulfilling. the humor is less funny and more cute. i…”
“A cool game with a fresh gameplay idea of learning your skills through riddles and typing. The word puzzles and puzzle puzzles were enjoyable, almost all of them felt solvable without any external help (and there are…”
“i like the gameplay, dont like the map. Really think it could be great if exploration didnt take so long and needing to find bugs. Also please lower background noise when talking with a character (I HATE WATERFALLS).…”
5 of the 93 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“A cool game with a fresh gameplay idea of learning your skills through riddles and typing. The word puzzles and puzzle puzzles were enjoyable, almost all of them felt solvable without any external help (and there are…”
“Really fun game, uses the typing mechanics in a really fun way. I 100% the game and it wasnt to bad, at most a little tedious to unlock all the skills.”
4 of the 93 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“An incredibly unique experience worth trying. But also incredibly annoying to play and look at, so this was a DNF. The first few hours are amazing, but it gets old quickly after that; 20% of the gameplay is checking…”
“No other game like this, maybe with some flashier presentation around story moments it could have been an indie hit. Insane amount of words that the game reacts to, and the Gwent minigame is great (but unbalanced)”
Counted across 93 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 92.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“This is truly a one-of-a-kind game, unlike anything I’ve played before. Despite having a C1 English certificate, not being a native speaker made guessing some of the more unusual, abstract, and rare words quite challenging. Because of this, I only managed to unlock about half of…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“A really cool concept for a game - fill in the blanks, decipher the hidden words, and those words you have learned become weapons that you can wield against your enemies! The Cryptmaster is fully voiced, with tons of responses to your single word inputs, and he is very funny. I…”
— a player, Steam review · 52 hrs played“Before anything else I tell you, please know that this game drops it's player base to about 25% after the first two hours based on achievements. I would have loved to know that before purchasing this myself. Looks like only about 5% of players beat the game, so please be…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Celebrating 10 Years of Akupara Games
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Cryptmaster in Dead Pets
Hey Doomed Souls,Minion 251434 here. The Cryptmaster was generous to allow the punks to play one of our songs: Rumble Underground by Surasshu featuring Steamage & Catton Arthur.Struggling punk rock ba
Public Playtesting - Version 1.112
Hey Doomed Souls, My developer minions have been working on my crypts. They want some test subjects to go through first to iron out any bugs that may appear. If you want to join in this new build you
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Typing · Dungeon Crawler · Word Game · Party-Based RPG · Fishing · Action-Adventure · Action RPG · 3D · RPG · First-Person · Funny · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Camera Comfort · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls |
| Languages | English * , Spanish - Spain * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 28 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: 5th Gen i5/1st Gen Ryzen Series Memory: 8GB GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 900 Series/Radeon RX Series