Unboxing the Cryptic Killer
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $2.30/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 16 and Oct 29, at about $3.59 (40% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 50 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($2.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($1.79)
- Last discount ended
- 11 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Hd graphics 520, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Unravel the mystery of a cryptic box in this 2-player co-op puzzle game. Join forces as two detectives, solve cooperative puzzles, communicate effectively, crack the codes and outsmart the killer.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.79, set in February 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 33 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, We Were Here Forever ($17.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Tick Tock: A Tale for Two ($1.79, scores 66).
This site sampled 536 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 224 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 02:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Incredible game, it was so much fun to solve a case with my friend and laugh at how stupid we are for not figuring something out. Could not recommend more.
NO SPOILSERS! DONT WORRY! Absolutely amazing game. Incredibly fun, definetly worth the 6 euros. The puzzles are well made, not too easy but also not too hard. The hints are very nice as well slowly pointing you towards the answer not giving it straight away. The only thing I didnt like is that when you type the code that is a 4-digit code, even if you know 3 digits the last one you can sort of brute force and just...
Sorry, it's got some fun puzzles but it also feels like they made it just long enough that you can't return it after you beat it, but not long enough to feel satisfying. And, I dunno, I saw the ending from a mile away. Very thin story.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Unboxing the Cryptic Killer scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2069040/unboxing-the-cryptic-killerReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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