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A screenshot from the game Cryptmaster in which the player and their party is being talked to the game's crypt master, which is a cloaked figure with horns.

For this edition of their "Indie Game of the Week" feature on Giant Bomb, mod Mento looks at Cryptmaster from @akuparagames.bsky.social!

Read why they consider it a real highlight of 2024!

User Blog: www.giantbomb.com/cryptmaster/...

#games #gaming #indie #indiegame #cryptmaster #puzzlegame

I gotta shill for Cryptmaster, as it is one of the few fantasy RPGs with an actual "crabs" spell.

Cryptmaster (2024)

I made a linocut of myself because I need a new hobby. Petulantly manipulating the world according to my own twisted whims feels very passé these days. It's a crowded field...

"Cryptmaster" is a wonderful dungeon crawler, full of clever riddles and word based gameplay, that is definitely worth checking out! Lots of amusing, humorous interactions can be prompted from the inputs you enter too! I could listen to the Cryptmaster describe the contents of a chest to me all day!

"Is the Cryptmaster romanceable?"

I'm getting tired of fielding this question! Are YOU romanceable? Look, take me for dinner, buy me flowers, pledge eternal servitude to my unholy cause, and we'll take it from there... I'll be honest, there's an extremely good chance that you're not even my type!

An extremely slapdash doodle of the Cryptmaster on a certain moldy visual novel's plot-planning board with the quote "You're skulking again... Stop it." There's an arrow pointing to him labeling him as handsome.

Two of my favorite minions! 🥳

(Your boss might've been hastily doodled on a game-planning board this morning/[illustrator]'s yesterday night courtesy of her going "Wait, I've gotta add..." after I asked "This is the conditional activated if you skulked with [character] in January, right?" "Yeah!")

The Cryptmaster looms over a partially-opened chest.

I wonder if anyone has yet realised that the latest update to my game contains a clue to the location of a REAL prize in a REAL WORLD location? The clue is written in plain view, though not in black and white...

Last five GOTYs

2020: Ikenfell, Noita
2021: Death's Door
2022: Cult of the Lamb, Eyes In The Dark
2023: Slay The Princess, BIRTH
2024: Animal Well, KRIMSON, Crow Country, Minishoot' Adventures, Duck Detective, Cryptmaster, Another Crab's Treasure...too many 😅

hey its been 5 minutes have i told you about these great games? theyre called Hypnospace Outlaw game of the year 2019 and also Cryptmaster spiritual game of the year 2024 with riveting narratives, witty dialogue, beautiful characters and art to look at..both on sale!!! right now!

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🔴LIVE : CRYPTMASTER🔴
C'est partit pour une soirée découverte sur le #DungeonCrawler le plus inventif et probablement le plus drôle de ces dernières années !

ARE YOU READY TO SERVE THE CRYPTMASTER ?
HEHEHEHEHEHEH...

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Cryptmaster is such a compelling little dungeon crawly typing game. the art says grimdark but the writing says silly as hell

gotta be royalty to get out of the bonehouses so i married an immortal, corpulent frog king and got a marriage certificate

Steam Curator: Casey Explosion Focusing primarily on indie and mid-tier games, I present a list of games I find exceptional, underappreciated, or have something interesting and unique about them.

Hey folks, it's Steam Sale time!

Who wants me to run through what's on my Curator page, and pick out a few neat things that are on sale. Who's excited for another Casey recommendation thread? Not your backlog, probably. 😊

store.steampowered.com/curator/2834...

I hope more people play Cryptmaster, it's so utterly unique and deserves so much more love.

-2025 Midway Checkpoint-
Top 4 favourite games I've played this year so far~

🚪 Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
💀 Cryptmaster
👻 9 R.I.P.
⚔️ Baldur's Gate 3 (really need to get back into this!)

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Meowdy friends! I'm gonna play Cryptmaster for my first time tonight -- Going live right MEOW.

Looking at you @thecryptmaster.bsky.social 👀

(P.S. I'm only ONE follow from 300? 🤯)

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Game Title: Cryptmaster A black and white stylized picture of a skull with horns and eyes in its sockets, some cracks on it. To the left is a feathered serpent looking on in shot. To the right is a chibi feathered serpent who looks scared.

Gonne be playing Crypt of the Necrodancer, except the only thing dancing are my fingers across this keyboard bby lets hit that 200 WPM Im gonna type SO MANY FUCKING WORDS

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#VTuber #Cryptmaster

Cryptmaster was such a delightful game. Its feels odd streaming thinky puzzle games like this sometimes, since I tend to sit back and simmer for these types and it feels hard to carry a stream against that.

There's so much I saw but pressed past. You bet I'm going back to devour more on my own.

I INTENSELY recommend that you buy Cryptmaster on sale, if you've been on the fence about getting it. It's SO good

Save 30% on Cryptmaster on Steam 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....

My game has been cruelly reduced by 30% for the Steam Summer Sale. This is ruinously cheap and an affront to my dignity. Please help by gifting copies of the game to all your friends so they can see for themselves how disgustingly low this price is.
store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/...

This slanderous outrage against my favorite sassy lich will not stand!!

Show Steam how underpriced you think this is by buying it TWICE!!!

Save 30% on Cryptmaster on Steam 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....

11. Cryptmaster

Utterly brilliant dungeon crawler meets typing tutor, it was my Game of the Year 24, just came out with a big content update, and is just consistently amusing throughout. There's nothing quite like its Mavis Beacon Teaches Necromancy gameplay

store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/...

screenshot from the game Cryptmaster, with the prompt "EGGBUG" on screen

pointing at the screen

Speaking of good writing, last year's Cryptmaster is 30% off. It's a charming dungeon crawler where the combat is replaced by word puzzles, which will constantly annoy and amuse the eponymous interactive narrator.

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🔪✨ Time to rage (while having THE BEST TIME) over riddles and brain teasers 💀 Now live with Cryptmaster!

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Oscar always wanted a pet monster. 👾

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¡Una traducción completa al Español de Cryptmaster!

Game Title: Cryptmaster A black and white stylized picture of a skull with horns and eyes in its sockets, some cracks on it. To the left is a feathered serpent looking on in shot. To the right is a chibi feathered serpent who looks scared.

Its time for a new game and I think we should visit the crypt. I feel like doing some spelling, lets see what my bookpilled and webserial-ravaged mind can think up!

🐍 twitch.tv/DrekiOrmur

#VTuber #Cryptmaster

Oh boy, Cryptmaster is such a delight. Great humour, loving the word puzzles and humour. The way you get letters and uncover words is a fun game mechanic and there's so much thought put into responses to things you can type.

I will never live down taking an hour to figure out SEABE_ though...

HE HAS ARRIVED! (And is already sick of me) #Cryptmaster #Youtooz