About This Game

Cryptogram is a multiplayer substitution-cipher puzzle game: every puzzle hides a quote, a line, or a saying behind a scrambled alphabet, and it's up to you to crack the code one letter at a time. Solve alone at your own pace, or open a lobby and work the same puzzle with friends in real time — everyone sees the board update live as guesses land, hints get spent, and the last letters click into place.

Play how you want. Free Play gives you unlimited time, unlimited hints, and unlimited solution checks, with full control over difficulty and category — the relaxed way to work through a puzzle. Competitive strips that away: a 5-minute timer, one hint, one check, a random difficulty and category you don't get to pick, and a dedicated leaderboard that only counts competitive results. Chain wins together without leaning on hints or checks and you'll build a streak that pads your score — the longer it runs, the more it's worth, right up until you finally slip.

Key Features

• Real-time multiplayer solving — Host a lobby and solve the same cipher together with friends, or spectate someone else's game in progress. Everyone's guesses and selections show up live on the board.

• Two ways to play — Free Play for unlimited time, hints, and checks with your choice of difficulty and category; Competitive for a 5-minute timer, one hint, one check, randomized settings, and its own dedicated leaderboard.

• Three difficulty tiers — Easy, Medium, and Hard, across a growing library of curated puzzle categories. Think you've got a puzzle worth adding? Submit it in-game and it can join the rotation.

• Streaks and scoring — Score is built from a base value, a time bonus, and penalties for hints and checks used, plus a streak bonus that grows the longer you can chain clean solves without help.

• Daily, weekly, all-time, and friends leaderboards — Track your standing across different timeframes or narrow it down to just the people you know.

• Tons of achievements — Climb to #1 or crack the top 10 on any leaderboard, defend the top spot for days at a time, complete a puzzle in every category and every difficulty, pull off a flawless no-hints-no-checks run, or rack up a 500-game streak.

• Designed with Steam Deck in mind, with a touch keyboard and a layout that fits the screen.

• Full controller support. Every menu and the board itself can be driven from a pad, with an on-screen letter picker and button prompts that match what you're holding. Bindings can be changed through Steam Input.

• Play with friends — Invite Steam friends straight into your lobby and jump into the same puzzle together.

• Built for accessibility — Colorblind-friendly palettes, adjustable font size and letter spacing, a dedicated OpenDyslexic font option, reduced-motion mode, and fully remappable keyboard shortcuts.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI is used for localization purposes. All graphics are human made.