I love this guy.
Cryptmaster is a real-time dungeon crawler, explored with arrow keys in a fairly traditional way.
Only, the way to interact with everything and everyone is by typing.
To open a chest or box, you jot down CHEST or BOX.
To squish a bug and claim its juices, you throw in the bug’s name.
To smash a shrine, you SMASH.
By each character’s icon in your status bar sits a series of blank boxes.
Each box represents a letter in the name of an ability the character has.
A bit like Wheel Of Fortune, yeah?
Correctly identify the item before running out of guesses and you’ll win the name’s letters.
Then you just need to fill in the blanks.
Finding more items helps, and you’re free to loot individual letters from defeated enemies.
And it’s possible for you to straight-up guess.
No BOOTing or JABbing that lad for me.
All this might be a little frustrating if the necromancer weren’t such a character.
He’s just a delight.
I am delighted with this adversarial ally who surely will not backstab me.
Other characters are fun and funny too.
I laughed at this game’s jokes, which is more rare than it should be.
The full game will also be onGOGandthe Epic Games Store.
It’s made by Paul Hart and Lee Williams with publishers Akupara Games.
Hell, I would happily listen to him reading the phonebook.
