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Corrypt – Puzzle Game Review
Corrypt is a Puzzle/Adventure game from Michael Brough, first launched in 12th January 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 30+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Corrypt Stand Out
Corrypt is an intricate and mysterious puzzle game. Explore a strange world, meet the weird creatures who live there, and solve the fiendish problems that trouble them.
"it’s got one of those simple game mechanics that grows up through the levels to produce brain-curdling complexity as you go on" – RockPaperShotgun
“this-is-impossible-oh-my-god-no-it-isn’t!” – IndieStatik
The PC version was named by indiegames.com as the #1 free puzzle game of 2012.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Corrypt is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th November 2022
Recent improvements include:
fixed screen displacement on ios version
Download & Availability
Corrypt is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We cant spoil why this game is so impressive, but trust us. It is an incredible game. We wouldnt recommend it to most though, as it is a difficult game that demands your attention. Its uncompromising like that. The aesthetics arent pretty, but they get the job done. The gameplay is initially very simple, and the undo functionality is very much of its time in the sense that its not as forgiving as many other more recent puzzlers. How is it still one of the collect games we have ever played? Basically, without spoiling anything, this game does the impossible from a game design standpoint, and it does it well. If you like puzzle games (especially sokoban-style games) then this is a must play. This is one of the most influential yet obscure games in the genre, so its worth checking out if you like these types of game.
Tbh the sticky block pushing of the first half of the game almost drove us insane a few times; like, we wanted to break our phone in half. But the second half was really cool. We got stuck, but we actually managed to complete the game on a second run through, which was surprisingly easy-not exactly what we expected from this dev, but it was cathartic and satisfying. Its hard not to be impressed that someone thought this thing up. We know Im late to the party, but this thing absolutely still deserves to be played.
Corrypt starts off as a fun little puzzler–like Sokoban but you drag the blocks as well as push them–and turns into an open world puzzle game where you feel like you have total freedom… To solve the puzzles or wreck everything by accident. This sense of dizzying agency is something we've never experienced in a puzzle game. Usually we're trying to suss out the "intended solution"–but here the level of power/accidental destruction introduced by the glitched tiles that transport items from screen to screen is almost scary and it feels like there's a lot of room for emergent gameplay choices. We played Imbroglio and 868-Hack and liked them well enough, but Corrypt immediately shot to the top of our all-time favorite game experiences. We were initially turned off by the style of the graphics but please give it a shot. If you liked The Witness, Braid, and other game-changing puzzler experiences, you will love this.
Because you've tried a million times to solve one of the puzzles. And then you put it down and pick it up again later and you finally figure it out. This cycle repeats itself over and over making this game infuriatingly difficult and incredibly gratifying.
Our least favorite of the three MBrough games we've played. 868 > zaga > this one So this is an endorsement, but not overly enthusiastic. Still better than 80% of iOS games out there. Yo Mike – update Zaga for 64bit ios11, please.
Like the designers other games, don't expect to be wowed by the graphics or interface. But in this simple package is a challenging puzzle game in the Sokoban genre. Magic was confusing at first – it freezes the tile in place, for every area, but gives the game a whole new layer of complexity. Still haven't come close to solving it.
Fun, very difficult, and surprisingly evocative. We felt worse about destroying these little mushroom people's world than we have about any other game's consequences. This game builds up your confidence and ego and pies you in the face with it.
Love the game but ironically it crashes on the level "Error," when you try to go to the next room. Iphone 5 upgrade was amazing but the game is now broken.
When we first started the title we thought it was just another dashed-off, so-so game, the kind the app store is full of. Something kept us at it, and soon we thought it was pretty interesting. The we kept going and eventually: wow! This is just a beautiful and amazing game, just one of the best.
Haven't ever felt so absorbed in an iPhone game. We were a little skeptical going in but it's a great little game. Unconventional for sure.
Great puzzle game. Challenging, devious, and clever puzzles. It has a great sense of humor, too. Looking forward to seeing more from Michael Brough.
A terrific puzzle game. Surprising and engaging.
We saw a review of Michael Brough's games on tumblr and we had to check them out. We're a huge fan of Sokoban style games and "Adventures of Lolo" in specific. "Corrypt" takes the Sokoban template and twists it to strange and almost disturbing degrees. Great game at any price, but $1.99 is nice too. :).
One of the best, and weirdest, puzzle games ever. It's a hard game, but well worth the effort. Once we got to the topsy turvy part we were mesmerized for an hour or two and just could not put it down until we completed it.
You don't have to be a genius to solve this game, but you do have to learn some techniques you've never used before. It's really great to play something that has a unique twist that no one has done before.
This is our third favorite Michael Brough game so far, after Glitch Tank and vesper.5. Corrypt is a surreal world to explore, it heats the imagination and that part of you that traces geometric figures in sand, water, on tables, etc.
Corrypt is a brilliant game. It is small scale, you can finish it in a day, but it is densely packed with ideas and challenges and mind-altering epiphanies. Corrypt starts out as a simple puzzle game, a set of Sokoban logic mazes wrapped in a light Zelda-esque adventure theme. But as this game unfolds, it playfully twists this structure in a way that must be played to be understood. Suffice to say, you can place Corrypt alongside Portal and Braid as a game which achieves great effects by experimenting with the fundamentals of its structure. Corrypt is difficult in both senses of the word. It's difficult like a Rubik's Cube and it's difficult like noise music, avant garde cinema, or modernist literature. It is unconventional and uncompromising, but it is also personal and warm, the carefully crafted work of a single individual, and we found it strangely haunting. Buy it. Play it. When you get stuck, put it away. Let it sit in your pocket, and in your head. Come back to it later and play some more. Eventually it will reveal its secrets to you, we promise. This small game, with its rough edges and its cryptic, self-consuming topography, is beautiful and important, and will repay the attention you give it a thousandfold.
This isn't the prettiest game, and the first couple of minutes might make you think you're playing a regular Soko-ban style game. But bear with it, it takes a turn that makes it one of the most amazing games of the year.
This game has gorgeous, melancholy sound and a tightly woven net of unforeseen, self-inflicted disaster waiting for you. Impossible, clever, messy, brutish, and heartbreaking. RIYL committing terrible crimes.
This game has some deliciously clever puzzles, and decent soundtrack. Unfortunately, it also crashes 90% of the time in the loading screen. This is on an iPhone 4. Hopefully this will get fixed in future updates.
Keeps crashing on load screen… Couldn't say whether there is a good game behind it. ITouch 4G.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 7
- Size: 19.54 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Michael Brough]()
Last updated: 9th November 2022 | Genre: Puzzle, Adventure | Developer: Michael Brough