Games like CRYPTIC

Miss the mysterious and story-driven pull of CRYPTIC? Browse these games for your next favorite.

Cryptmaster
Four dead heroes, one chatty necromancer, and a dungeon where words are your only weapon. Type (or say) anything to fight, solve riddles, fish, play cards and win rap battles as you climb from the grave toward the surface. Weird, funny and unlike anything else on your shelf.
Mysterious, Story-driven
94% of 1,680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$24.99
The Door Of Redemption
When you wake up in a dungeon full of peculiar smell, someone tells you: you must find a way to escape from this dungeon, and be careful, you are not alone……
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Desert of Vice
Solve your own murder in this horror text adventure with choice dependent endings. Explore an isolated desert town to figure out who murdered you - and why.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
79% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$1.19
Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
90% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Terminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers. Each terminal operates on its own hidden rules, and the only way to escape is to learn how to speak their language. Crack the code, unlock the truth.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Trapped in a forest cabin, your only way out is a strange computer game its owner offers you. But the traps inside the game start appearing in the cabin, and what you do in one world changes the other. A first-person escape room with a deadly twist, multiple endings and many ways to die.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
95% of 1,563 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
囚笼之诗
You wake in a monster’s cage with no memory and 30 days to act. Choose to escape, obey, or become its favorite.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
100% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
This Book Is A Dungeon
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
78% of 195 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Type Your Fate
Type your fate. Arm yourself with your keyboard and your wits, and try to escape from the abandoned house where you are. Unfortunately, you won't be alone...
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
> Terminal
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine. You are Tera, alone in your terminal window on a cold Illinois night. Your identity is lost, embedded somewhere within a haunted computer. Its code is a prison, but it's also your escape.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$5
STAY
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
67% of 471 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Our Secret Below
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
85% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than CRYPTIC

The Door Of Redemption

When you wake up in a dungeon full of peculiar smell, someone tells you: you must find a way to escape from this dungeon, and be careful, you are…

$0.99

Desert of Vice

Solve your own murder in this horror text adventure with choice dependent endings.

$1.19

Type Your Fate

Type your fate. Arm yourself with your keyboard and your wits, and try to escape from the abandoned house where you are.

$0.99

Krypt

Krypt is an old-school text adventure filled with excitement and peril.

$1.99

Lost Crew

This is text adventure game of survival of the astronauts on the orbital station that is lost in time.

$1.99

Care

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences.

$2.49

Captive

"Captive" tells the story of a woman who awakens badly hurt in an unknown cell, without any memories about herself. Will you be able to escape?

$0.99

House of Caravan

Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark…

$1.99

void game

void game() is a minimalist puzzle game about Death, its many faces, and its inevitable counterpart: Life.

$1.99

Nothing To Remember

Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop.

$1.99

Puzzle Adventures

A choose your own adventure game where the player is tasked with finding out how they ended up in the small house on the beach.

$0.99

Condition Unknown

A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply broken and death may not be the end.

$1.50

Hidden gems like CRYPTIC

[Redacted] The Safehouse

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend.

$3.99

Terminal Lucidity

In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.

Free

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.

$4.99

Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

Trapped in a forest cabin, your only way out is a strange computer game its owner offers you.

$14.99

Welcome To The Dark Place

The train is the only escape.

Free

Cryptmaster

Lead four dead heroes through an underground world by typing whatever comes to mind, from sword swings to riddles and card games.

$24.99

TEST TEST TEST

Play an office worker trapped in a 15-minute time loop, solving cryptic puzzles with clues that lead outside the game.

Free

Homicipher

Decode an alien language from gestures and pointed fingers, and choose your words carefully: every conversation can lead somewhere very different.

$13.99

The Tartarus Key

There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her…

$19.99

Myths of Rules

Follow contradictory ghost rules through a branching text adventure, gather clues, and puzzle out who wrote them.

$2.99

Adventure Escape Mysteries

Search hand-drawn scenes, piece the clues together and follow each mystery to its answer, one chapter at a time.

Free

Escape until Friday

You are kidnapped by a maniac who keeps you locked up in his basement. You have to get out of the kidnapper's house at any cost until Friday.

$5.99

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