Cryptogram

<p class="bb_paragraph" >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.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" >Play how you want. <strong>Free Play</strong> 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. <strong>Competitive</strong> 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.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" ><strong>Key Features</strong></h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Real-time multiplayer solving</strong> — 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.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Two ways to play</strong> — 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.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Three difficulty tiers</strong> — 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.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Streaks and scoring</strong> — 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.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Daily, weekly, all-time, and friends leaderboards</strong> — Track your standing across different timeframes or narrow it down to just the people you know.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Tons of achievements</strong> — 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.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Steam Deck ready</strong> — Touch-friendly on-screen keyboard and layout adjustments make Cryptogram fully playable on Deck's screen, no extra setup.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Full controller support</strong> — Navigate every menu and the puzzle board itself with a controller via Steam Input, complete with an on-screen letter picker for making guesses and button prompts that match whatever you've got plugged in.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Play with friends</strong> — Invite Steam friends straight into your lobby and jump into the same puzzle together.</p></li><li><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>Built for accessibility</strong> — Colorblind-friendly palettes, adjustable font size and letter spacing, a dedicated OpenDyslexic font option, reduced-motion mode, and fully remappable keyboard shortcuts.</p></li></ul>