Locktale
Mina Pêcheux · Sep 7, 2026
Discover a tale about identity and love in this game of ciphers and puzzles... that may force you to think outside the (text)box.
About Locktale
Step into a cozy tale where words love to play hide-and-seek! Locktale is a no-pressure, story-driven puzzle game that invites you to decode secret messages using ciphers, symbols, visual tricks, and (more or less...) gentle logic challenges. Each level uses a new unique encoding technique for you to understand and crack - so take your time, experiment, and enjoy uncovering a story that slowly reveals itself, one decoded message at a time :) Adaptive difficulty Even if some ciphers are pretty advanced, I wanted to make this game accessible to anyone who's curious about ciphers, no matter how new you are to the domain - that's why every level has three levels of hints, from minimal to detailed , that will give you different clues to decipher the message. A wide range of ciphers In Locktale , each level presents you with a new challenge - no two puzzles use the same trick! Throughout the 50+ levels, you'll thus get to learn about a bunch of common ciphers, from basic ones used during the Antiquity up to the tools of modern cryptography. (Oh, and there are also some techniques or symbol-based ciphers I invented just for this game!) Stay meta All the puzzles are meant to be solvable us
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