# Cryptic Murder Mystery Story — user reviews > 32 indexed App Store user reviews of Cryptic Murder Mystery Story by Digigo, rated 4.90/5 from 823 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cryptic-murder-mystery-story/id6480405773/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cryptic-murder-mystery-story/id6480405773.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 765 · 4★ 35 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Cryptic Murder Mystery Story? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Engaging storyline - 🕵️‍♂️ Enjoyable cryptogram puzzles - 💡 Ability to make choices that impact the story - 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay **Cons** - 🙅‍♂️ Limited character customization options - 📺 Too many forced ads - 🔋 Energy system could be improved **Commonly reported bugs** - Occasional crashes or freezes - Compatibility issues on older devices **Most requested features** - More character customization options - Ability to play as a male protagonist - Increased energy rewards per level ## Newest reviews (10 of 32) ### 4/5 — Fun game! *2025-07-17* I really enjoy this game! It’s the best of both worlds, crossword and storytelling!! My only concern is having to watch an Ad after every episode to get a gem. Gems should be automatic if you’ve paid for no ads!!! Other than that, I would give it 5 stars. ### 4/5 — All puzzles completed *2025-04-25* Loved the word puzzle but hated the “mystery story”. I’m at a stand still receiving an all puzzles completed message. ### 4/5 — Devon Devon Devon *2025-03-24* This has very quickly become one of my favorite games. I get so caught up in the general story line of the game that I don’t even realize the fact that I’m doing a crossword essentially as well. I love my storyline built up between your own character and the two main guys (Devon is my favorite). The two things I wish is that the case releases were more often and that the storyline between our character and our chosen love interest was further developed but I will say I did enjoy how much they implemented within case 15! ### 4/5 — Ok *2025-03-14* Toooooo many ads and only one kind of word puzzle to solve. Like the plots and interactions. ### 4/5 — Enjoying the game *2025-03-10* For some reason when I opened the game I couldn’t access the daily puzzle today, even though I played the previous March puzzles. You might want to check for bugs. Also there were a few times when I got an error message in the game after making choices. ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2024-12-02* Love this game so much hoping they are working on another one as don’t want it to end both parts great the cryptic words puzzle and the thriller sorry is great for you to progress through and you decide what happens next ### 5/5 — Fun *2024-11-28* Love this game it is so fun Update: after the new update there’s wayyy too many adverts you can’t even enjoy the game anymore ### 5/5 — Fun *2024-11-19* Love this game it is so fun ### 5/5 — 5/5 *2024-11-11* this is one of my newly favourite games and i'm always on the edge waiting for the next chapter amazing storyline with a chilled cryptogram game which earns you energy instead of having to sit through ads & not having to pay for anything unless you want to ignore the puzzles / not wait for gems for a couple special options (guilty) as someone who loves investigation games it's super friendly, it rewards you for working out what's happened & giving the right answers but doesn't punish you for the wrong answers either definitely recommend to anyone who loves a murder-mystery based story with loveable (& hated) characters who make constant appearances tying cases together keep up the great work, devs! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2024-11-02* I got absolutely sucked into this game. I love that you choose how to proceed, and the side puzzles are actually fun and not something boring you have to do to move forward. I hope new cases come out soon!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not coming back??? *2026-01-16* It’s been about 2 months easily with no new case… are we just abandoning this game without saying anything?? Sad thing is, I liked this game to pass the time ### 1/5 — Ads *2025-06-04* Too many ### 1/5 — ads *2025-05-03* wayyyy too many ads ### 1/5 — Incorrect facts *2025-04-07* Tried to play and was hit with an answer of Donney as the creator of Mickey Mouse 😆 who the heck is Donney? ### 1/5 — Could be a lot better *2025-04-06* This game could be a lot better. It is frustrating that you have to play so many crossword games in order to get points to play. It is annoying that for every good move you can make you need to use your jewels, which run out fast. They already have an ad after each crossword that lasts longer than it takes to solve the crossword, and now they want to charge you for more jewels. Not worth it for me. ### 1/5 — Hope you like ads *2025-02-09* Every level has an an ad you have to click at least 4 times to get past , otherwise game might be fun, but have no idea cuz I’m busy trying to skip ads ### 2/5 — I’m a Male *2025-02-07* I want to know why I can’t play the episode in a Male role. Why are the options only Females? ### 2/5 — Ok but…. *2024-12-25* Too many forced ads ### 3/5 — Used to be my fave *2026-04-08* Been waiting months for the next case. Guess it’s not coming ### 3/5 — Good game a minor issue *2026-02-25* When playing the story it glitches when it comes to the purple options and constantly makes me reload but at the same time takes my energy with each time it reloads. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Class *2026-05-08* Amazing game with an even better storyline ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-01-07* I’ve been playing this for a couple of weeks and so far I like it. There aren’t a crazy number of ads to deal with but there are ads. I wish it was just the story without the other game play now that I’m into the storyline but it’s a good game all around and I recommend it ### 5/5 — Fun *2025-10-25* I’m 74 and find the puzzles easier then crossword puzzles. I like that if I’m really stuck and strike out 3 times I can start over. I don’t rely on hints. I never was good with crossword puzzles so this is nice. ### 5/5 — 🕵️‍♂️ *2025-08-13, version 1.0.28* So much fun, I wish there was more customisation options for the MC also the game uses American spelling. Please bring back the restart button on puzzles ;—-; I’m really glad there’s options for different avatars now, I hope in the future they will add an option for Asian mc too ### 5/5 — Super fun!! *2025-06-13* I love this game!! I have put so much time into it, I just wish there was a way to go back and review completed stories. There’s so much lore I forget about getting further into the game, I don’t want to restart! Other than that, always have a great time playing. Thank you!!! ### 5/5 — Love it *2025-05-05* A few weeks ago I found about this game and downloaded it.. I really loved it. I loved the mystery cases, I love that sometimes it will give you hints in both the decoding part and in the solving. I did just finish the “in too deep” case and it left me on a cliffhanger but then I saw at the bottom that it said “big case 17 coming soon” so I got happy at that because I was really hoping this wasn’t gonna leave me on a cliffhanger forever for eternity. I also like how we get to choose between the choices, although I do wish the moves thing we would get more than just 5. Like why not 10 to 15 each time? Other than that, I love this ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2025-01-23* I downloaded cryptic ab 5/6 months ago and I’m on level 518. Each story takes about 25-35 energy depending on the amount of choices you must pick in the chapters (each choice is 3 energy). I genuinely have no issues with this game and it really is fun! I honestly don’t make reviews often, and when I do they’re negative lol. The only “complaint” I have is that I wish each level gave more than 5 energy… but then the game would be too easy, so it’s understandable. I recommend this game to pass time! ### 5/5 — Brilliant! *2024-12-24* I have just started playing the game today and I absolutely love it so far! The gameplay is nice and simple and the story is very engaging so far. A really great game that you can tell a lot of effort has gone into making. ### 5/5 — Awesome Game *2024-12-18, version 1.0.16* Totally love this game, cudo’s to the developers Wasn’t sure if I would like it when I seen the add, but thought I’d give it a try So glad I did up to level 300, episode 7 so far and really enjoying playing this game ### 5/5 — hooked *2024-12-15* I downloaded this game a week ago and am already through over 500 levels. The storyline hooks you in every episode and has a fair amount of cryptic crosswords in-between. I don’t know what I’m going to do when I run out of levels! My favorite download in a very long time! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*