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Cracking the Cryptic

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77%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:replayability
Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
77% User Score Based on 270 reviews

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Cracking the Cryptic is a single player casual puzzle game. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

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77%Audience ScoreBased on 270 reviews
replayability1 positive mentions
stability2 negative mentions
  • The game offers a vast collection of handcrafted, challenging, and unique sudoku variant puzzles that are highly engaging and rewarding.
  • The app has an intuitive and flexible interface with powerful tools for pencil marking, coloring, and solving aids that enhance the puzzle experience.
  • The developers are active and responsive, frequently updating the app with new puzzles, bug fixes, and improvements.
  • The app suffers from severe performance issues including long loading times, slow menu navigation, and frequent freezing, which disrupt the user experience.
  • It drains battery excessively and causes devices to heat up, even with low-intensity gameplay and battery saver settings enabled.
  • The hint system and puzzle rules sometimes contain errors, misleading information, or lack clarity, making it difficult for users to follow the logic.

  • optimization

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 34% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    Optimization has been a significant issue, with users experiencing laggy, unresponsive menus and notable battery drain, especially after certain updates or purchases. While some performance problems have been addressed, the app still suffers from poor battery efficiency and occasional clunky behavior, impacting overall user experience.

    • “Update: performance issues have been fixed.”
    • “I would give it 5 stars if it wasn't for the slow performance in the menus.”
    • “Pros: great puzzles, robust interface; cons: laggy, unresponsive menus; drains battery even faster than their other apps. Easy five stars if they correct the performance issues.”
    • “Performance has suddenly become really bad after purchasing a few packs, on a Pixel 7 Pro.”
    • “The puzzles themselves are amazing, but Studio Goya needs to work both on the performance of the app and on the huge battery drain.”
    • “Pros: great puzzles, robust interface. Cons: laggy, unresponsive menus; drains battery even faster than their other apps. Easy five stars if they correct the performance issues.”

  • stability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The app frequently experiences long freezes when selecting or completing puzzles, and sometimes becomes unresponsive in the menu, requiring multiple restarts to function properly. Stability issues are a significant hindrance to smooth gameplay.

    • “The app often freezes for over a minute when trying to select puzzles or after completing one.”
    • “Sometimes it just freezes altogether in the menu, and I have to close the app and restart several times before I can successfully open a puzzle.”

  • monetization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The game offers a user-friendly experience with no annoying ads, featuring a fantastic interface and complimentary starter puzzles. Overall, monetization is unobtrusive and well-balanced.

    • “Fantastic interface, no ads, great starter puzzles for free.”

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users find the grinding aspect tedious, especially in easier modes, where repetitive tasks feel more drawn out and less engaging.

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features a limited number of handcrafted puzzles, but their quality ensures high replayability.

    • “Lovely puzzles, and while the amount of them is limited, they are handcrafted and very replayable.”
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Cracking the Cryptic is a casual puzzle game. Common tags for Cracking the Cryptic include free to play, logic and abstract.

Cracking the Cryptic is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

Cracking the Cryptic was developed by Studio Goya LLC.

Cracking the Cryptic has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Cracking the Cryptic for its replayability but disliked it for its optimization.

Cracking the Cryptic is a single player game.

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