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Secret Signs – Family Game Review
Secret Signs is a Family/Puzzle game from Wouter Walmink, first launched in 27th June 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 594+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Secret Signs Stand Out
How do you solve a riddle that poses no question? Poke it, move it and look at it from all angles, because both problem and solution are hidden in plain sight.
Secret Signs tests your creativity and imagination. These riddles may seem abstract, but there is more than meets the eye. You may think “Huh?”, but soon you’ll say “Hmm…” and finally exclaim “Aha!”.
What makes it special:
- 24 unique riddles (6 free and one in-app purchase to unlock all)
- No two levels are alike, each has a different look, mechanic and goal
- No timers, scores or badges—just the riddles and your curiosity
- Pick any level, because you can complete them in any order
- Each riddle tells a background story when you solve it
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Secret Signs is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th October 2019
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed level 12, which didn't work properly anymore on iOS 13.1
Download & Availability
Secret Signs 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:
Tbh best game Ive played in a loooong time. We want more.
Love this game. The 2 final games are harder than we imagine, it took sometimes to figured it out. For anyone who hasnt finished the last one, go back to the first riddle and think outside of the box. Hope you will get the hint Thank you the developers for those amazing riddles.
Beautiful and challenging puzzles. Hints are helpful and dont give it away. No ads. We paid $2 for the full set and they were worth it. Only disappointment is there arent more. We hope the developer continues.
Really enjoy these puzzles. They are quite unique and we like the exploratory aspect of them.
We loved reading about the inspirations at the end of each level. The creator of this game is a deeply thoughtful person. It was fascinating to see small parts of the world in a different way and then learn about what we were seeing.
Wait. This is BRILLIANT. Extremely satisfying to solve puzzles and have the concrete enjoyment of relating them back to real-world phenomena!! Feels like Im not just playing against our phone but rather against something almostalive. Will be recommending to everyone we know. Thank you.
Great puzzles that foster creative thinking! There are no directions since each puzzle is different. But hints are available if you are ready to give up.
We really love that Im learning things while we play, the puzzles are challenging but so satisfying when we figure it out. We also love the art style!! We bought all the puzzles to support the dev and it is so fun.
Fun and inventive puzzles, tricky but not to the point of being frustrating. We happily paid $1.99 for the extra levels. And the links to information about each puzzle type are super interesting too.
Since learning about this, Ive been using it with our concussion and brain injury patients to work on problem solving. The calming music and visuals are perfect for them while they work out how to operate each puzzle, what the end goal is, and how to reach it. Solving these is great for multitasking, prospective problem solving, and attention/concentration. Im a HUGE fan.
Im only seven puzzles in but we are already hoping we dont run out soon. These are creative and universal (so far) and Im glad we paid the small charge to unlock all the available puzzles. Cool stuff. Also the game developers name is Wouter so how can you go wrong.
This game is excellent. Its fun, the visuals & colors are great, & its a soothing aesthetic & brain teaser. You wont regret it.
Its a fun game just wish there were more levels.
First few werent too bad. But now its gotten very challenging.
A lovely series of little brain teasers. Lovely, simple graphics with an interesting blurb at the end of what inspired them. The full set of puzzles is only $2. Ive seen apps of this caliber can go for upwards of $10, so it was nice to see something reasonably priced. This app reminds us of those little puzzles you might pick up at a drug store. It makes us happy :).
First off, this game is pretty difficult. Every puzzle is different and has a sort of gimmick which is explained after you solve them. You really have to consider every option and make quick connections. The first bit is usually working on what you can do and building on the little bit there. Some arent as intuitive as youd like in terms of controls. Could just be our old phone being annoying though. Overall, a fantastic game would recommend to anyone who loves puzzles.
The puzzles are relaxing and the facts are fun.
Great to play while Im coming off of injustice. Soul sucking bottomless pit of greed.
Engaging visual puzzles to solve. Color, shape and instrumental guitar. Very nice.
We dont write reviews EVER but this is AWESOME.
Its not just puzzles, but puzzle about different phenomenons. Its so creative and wonderful we wish we could give it 6 stars. We bought the extra 12 levels for 2 dollars. We don't like spending money on apps but we though this one is worth it. It might not be many lvls but for this game, if you are working and have money, (for us) 2 dollars is not a-lot. And spending it to support these creators so maybe all of these lvls can be free for everyone is well worth. P.S. For the creators Thank you for not ruining this app with crappy ads that are everywhere nowadays even though it would have funded this project. It makes everything so much more fun when an ad is not spammed every second. Sincerely Thank you.
While we didnt personally buy the extended version of the game, someone with extra funds definitely should! Its a fun little game with some neat information. A lot of the people complaining about the paywall clearly didnt read the description of the app.
These puzzles remind us of Brain: Code. We like their originality. We do hope the creators will have another puzzle pack available in the future.
So we just finished the first six, and im not sure if im going to end up buying the rest just because we like these kinds of games that keep you hooked but also challenged for just a short time. We really like this kind of puzzle, the difficulty level, the art style, the concepts, im looking forward to more games the shoelace one was difficult tho hahahah 10/10.
Now this game was totally worth buying as it challenges our brain in creative ways.
The game is cool and the links to learn more about the puzzles inspirations is educational icing on the cake.
Wonderful way to stretch your brain.
Creative game with a nice relaxing vibe and challenging, yet fun concept. Hope to see more from this dev.
This is the perfect puzzle game, theyre so hard to come by. The artwork is so simplistic and beautiful and the puzzles make you think but arent impossible. We need more levels.
Quite soothing and quaint. Pay the $1.99 and support the dev team.
Colorful, simple, and just the right amount of challenging. These entertaining puzzles each come with a cute lesson. Thank you for making some free so we could try it out. 100% worth the $2.
Our whole family (8yrs and up) loves working to solve the puzzles. Especially like that there are no instructions.
Title says it all. The puzzles aren't too hard but it's very enjoyable. The facts that you get after solving them are pretty great too.
This app is simple, colorful, beautiful, and provides really interesting little factoids about cool things humans have been doing for a long, long time. We helped found Sky Tripping Meditations, and we plan to give away a handful of free upgrades to this app if we can work it out with the developer because we think it does such a good job helping people practice mindful observance. Great work Wouter.
We love to play this game before we go to school and this app loves us back.
Im really enjoying this so far, but before we purchase more challenges, Id like to know if any of the proceeds are being donated to Wikipedia, which is referenced to at the completion of each challenge. Thanks for this cool game.
This game is truly amazing. We hope there are more levels coming in the future. Would definitely buy again and pay for more levels. Well worth it.
The buy button to unlock all levels is too low on our phone, cant click it. Is it also a puzzle.
Super cool game, really enjoyed the first 6, took about 10 mins to finish the free version. We would expect at least 40-50 levels to pay $2 for the rest of it.
We went through the free ones in about five minutes so go ahead and consider this a $2 game. But its well made and well thought out and cute.
We got the free version and it was very entertaining. We decided to pay to get all levels for $1.99, then we get charged $2.15 and when we open the app, we do not have the other levels and it wants us to pay for them again.
Im not trying to spoil it, but we know what to do but its just not letting us solve it its annoying otherwise good game.
This game was really great! Some of the levels make you think real hard about how to solve them. Its to bad the game was so short. We really hope there are more puzzles added in the future.
Its a great game, different, and aesthetically pleasing to look at. However there are only 24 levels at the moment, meaning shortly after purchasing the game we ran out of levels. We hope they add more to it soon (or ever) but in the meantime we wouldnt recommend actually purchasing the app (unless youre looking for something to play for a day).
Way too little free content to be listed as a free game. Kinda disappointing but still good.
Only 6 puzzles are available for free, you have to pay for the rest. We dont have an issue with that, especially as its only $1.99, our issue is that there are only 24 additional puzzles. Its not really worth it for so few puzzles. We suppose if later on more are added, that could change. That said, the game itself is very smooth and beautifully done.
Good design, we wish it was labeled clearly on the App Store. This is a game for toddlers. No adult should have this app open for more than two minutes.
The puzzles are all high quality. The games issue is that the solutions are often uninventive or too easy. This results in only a few of the existing 24 puzzles to require more than a few minutes to solve. This results in a total playtime of 2 hours for adults. While we can vouch for its quality, there are many other paid games that get you high quality gameplay for a much longer period of time. We would 100% recommend as a 5 star were there ~40 puzzles.
Great game but the fact that its only 6 stages is so dumb.
A little pointless to advertise as a free game because you can only play six levels for free, which we completedin probably three minutes or so. Just wish there was more to it. If youre willing to pay 2$ we think it was, then its definitely a very fun game. But if not, it wouldnt be worth your time. Not that it stole much anyways.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.5
- Size: 44.83 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Wouter Walmink
Last updated: 18th October 2019 | Genre: Family, Puzzle | Developer: Wouter Walmink