The Game Census
Cypher cover art

Cypher

Matthew Brown · 2018-02-20

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 20, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.

6
playing now
90%
positive of 949 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 18,242 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–57k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 949 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2019-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-12 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.002015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $0.002018-06-21 — best price $3.742018-10-30 — best price $3.492018-12-20 — best price $3.492019-02-04 — best price $2.492019-06-26 — best price $1.992019-09-16 — best price $1.992019-11-26 — best price $1.492020-01-23 — best price $1.492020-04-13 — best price $1.492020-08-19 — best price $1.492020-11-09 — best price $1.492020-12-22 — best price $1.492021-02-11 — best price $1.492021-06-24 — best price $1.492021-10-28 — best price $1.492021-12-22 — best price $1.492022-07-25 — best price $1.492022-11-07 — best price $1.492022-12-22 — best price $1.492023-03-16 — best price $1.492023-06-30 — best price $1.492023-11-06 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $1.492024-03-14 — best price $1.492024-06-27 — best price $1.492024-10-07 — best price $1.492024-12-19 — best price $1.492025-03-13 — best price $1.492025-05-29 — best price $1.492025-09-01 — best price $1.492025-11-03 — best price $1.492026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-06-25 — best price $1.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
43.6%
earned "Complete all steganography puzzles."
8.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,57628%7

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndiePuzzleDifficultEducationMinimalistFirst-Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.