Palm Cracker (2025)
- Developer
- Petter Malmehed
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Indie, Simulation, Free To Play
- Rating
- 4.8 of 5, 96 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 1.4 hours
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
It feels like a slow, methodical dive into a cryptic digital relic, demanding your full attention to crack realistic codes and puzzles.
mysteriouspuzzlingimmersivechallengingdetectiveretrocrypticcode-cracking
What players say
Players say this is a short, free puzzle game that teaches basic cryptography through a series of ciphers. Most finish in about half an hour, and many reach for pen and paper to solve them. The storytelling is minimal despite a serial killer framing, and the faux PalmPilot format is liked, though some note the sound and screen aren't authentic to the real device.
Trailer
Screenshots
More games like this
- Cipheur (2025)
- Macro Data Refinement Simulator (2025)
- Terminal Lucidity (2026)
- The Da Vinci Cryptex 4 (2025)
- The Da Vinci Cryptex (2023)
- UNCHAINED (2025)
- The Cradle (2025)
- 回ル！ハッカー探偵 (2025)
More by Petter Malmehed
- Atom☭grad (2023)
- After Hours (2018)
This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing and it picks from the whole catalog, or browse by platform and genre.