CRYPTIC
Short description
Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!
- Developer
- Shoho Games
- Publisher
- Shoho Games
- Release
- Fri, Dec 25, 2020
- Price
- $2.99
- Reviews
- 2
- Positive
- 100%
- Followers
- 37
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Indie
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $2.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Sep 12, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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