The Guides 4+
Beautiful Crypto Puzzles
2 Fountains LLC
Designed for iPad
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- £2.99
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Description
Featured by Apple in:
15 Most Mind-Bending Puzzlers, 15 Most Mysterious Games, The Best Games You’ve Never Played, Challenge Your Brain, Best New Games
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“Best Mobile Games of 2015” — CNET
“Best iOS Games of 2015” — Apple ‘N’ Apps
“Best One Handed Mobile Games for Long Commutes” — Appcessories
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Consisting of hundreds of extremely challenging codes, puzzles and interactive ciphers, The Guides is a journey that will challenge your wit, stretch your imagination and test your ingenuity in unique and innovative ways.
Simply stated, they’re not easy. Progressing will be difficult, but you have the appropriate tools at your disposal. Everything you need to proceed is — or has been — provided.
Look for clues and patterns to build on what you have learned. Remember what you have seen as for no detail is too subtle or insignificant. As you explore deeper, you’ll begin to unravel the enigma of The Guides.
Peculiar, isn't it?
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"From the word 'Go'... it tells you nothing. And you have to work it out for yourself. And that, my friends, that is cool." James Gilmour for App Spy
"The Guides gets under your skin... you’ll find yourself thinking about it outside of the game and coming back for more." Jennifer Allen for 148apps
"The Guides is one of the year’s most interesting puzzle games. It’s a beautifully designed toy box filled with an enormous variety of code-breaking ciphers and visual riddles..." Owen Faraday for Pocket Tactics
"It's brilliant, uncompromising, satisfying, and one of the best games I have ever played on my phone... quite possibly on any platform." chanandler of App Army for Pocket Gamer
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• Four Sections and 100 pages embedded with countless challenges.
• Meticulously designed interactive puzzles and ciphers with each being more unique than the last.
• Piece together the fragmented story to reveal the source of the messages.
• Various game mechanics such as the code interface screen and the title bar to provide added layers of support.
• Integrated decoding tools — including morse, binary and many more — to assist you on your journey.
• Ability to save screenshots to keep track of invaluable clues and notes.
• A distress support system is available if you find yourself stuck, but use sparingly, for your transmissions are limited.
Official Site: theguidesapp.com
General Inquiries: info@theguidesapp.com
Twitter: twitter.com/theguidesapp
Facebook: fb.com/theguidesapp
Instagram: instagram.com/theguidesapp
What’s New
Version 1.8
- Fix for iOS 17
- The Guides is alive, look for more updates in 2024...
Ratings and Reviews
Great (if you've got that sort of brain)
A mix of simple and more complex puzzles which can lead one to expend an enormous amount of time heading in the wrong direction, to save time I recommend searching for the obvious answer before getting too devious, although devious is definitely required at times. Overall, very satisfying though and suited to people who enjoy cryptic clues and experimentation/observation
Enjoyable, until puzzles lack sufficient signposting
I was really enjoying this, it’s very reminiscent of the classic online riddle games of 15+ years ago.
Then, I found myself having to look up the answer for 2-5, and felt a bit cheated. As far as I can tell, there was no indication that that was what I had to do, although I forgave it as perhaps I should have noticed it, given the context of previous clues.
Moving on to section 3, I found more of these situations, with a ton of red herrings thrown in for good measure (although I have given up on the game now, I don’t know if these will get referenced again somewhere down the line). The final step of 3-13, having looked up what I was supposed to do, was enough for me to lose all trust that solutions are adequately signposted. The answer requires a final transformational step which isn’t vaguely hinted at anywhere, and you couldn’t possibly know that that was what to do unless you spotted it by chance or had looked it up. The problem with this is that I believe to solve future puzzles, I’m reduced to just trying everything out until I stumble across something that works.
Developer Response ,
Sorry to hear you feel that way! The puzzles are very hard indeed, but they are completely solvable with everything provided in the app.
Codes, cyphers and puzzles
Great fun if you like codes, cyphers and puzzles with just a small hint at how to solve them. When I say small hint... it could be just one letter...
Brilliant way of delivering puzzles, having to jump around between puzzles to find a way of solving them. Some are a little bit confusing but most are great fun.
Well worth the price, look forward to more.
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- 2 Fountains LLC
- Size
- 47.1 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2015 Kevin Bradford LLC
- Price
- £2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.