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Ink Cipher

Chequered Ink Ltd. · 2018-07-02

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 04, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 02, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Crack cipher crossword puzzles in Ink Cipher!

Ink Cipher is a Casual game released in 2018, priced at $0.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Positive review sentiment (87% of 23 reviews).

0
playing now
87%
positive of 23 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 69% of 29,044 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2023-02-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220192025Week of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
10Jul 2018Oct 2022Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 0Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2021 — avg 1 · peak 2Jul 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Aug 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Sep 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Oct 2022 — avg 1 · peak 2

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Oct 2022

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$0.99$0.282018-07-022026-03-262018-07-02 — best price $0.992018-10-29 — best price $0.492018-11-27 — best price $0.992019-02-04 — best price $0.492019-07-09 — best price $0.992019-11-01 — best price $0.992019-12-20 — best price $0.492020-01-27 — best price $0.992020-10-29 — best price $0.492020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-06-24 — best price $0.492021-11-01 — best price $0.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-02-03 — best price $0.992022-08-22 — best price $0.492022-10-10 — best price $0.992022-12-22 — best price $0.492023-03-06 — best price $0.992023-04-10 — best price $0.282023-05-29 — best price $0.992023-07-17 — best price $0.282023-11-28 — best price $0.992024-01-08 — best price $0.492024-02-26 — best price $0.992024-11-27 — best price $0.492025-01-02 — best price $0.992025-07-02 — best price $0.492025-10-06 — best price $0.992026-03-19 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

CasualPuzzleWord Game

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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