The Guides app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 2976 ratings )

Games Puzzle Strategy
Developer: RosiMosi LLC

2.99 USD

Current version: 1.8, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 17 Aug 2015
App size: 44.92 Mb

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, isnt 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

"Its 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
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Pros and cons of The Guides app for iPhone and iPad

The Guides app good for

I think its an awesome puzzle game that really makes you look at everything, but the text is normally a bit too small and I can imagine it being almost impossible on older apple devices. The keyboard is also different and hard to type on quickly.

Youre forced to use your brain a bit. Once it see the patters to the solutions they fall into place pretty quickly, but some challenges are difficult enough to take a moment. The overall experience is very interesting and intriguing; it keeps your attention quite well. Good job on this game, devs. I love a good puzzler and this one hit the spot.

I want to like this better and perhaps the opacity is intentional, but Im prevented from giving 5 stars because the tools are so difficult to use. Perhaps the game is designed for larger devices?

Tbh, this is a really fun game with beautiful af puzzles, but its kinda easy. I finished it in a couple hours and now I have nothing to do, so Im currently playing Bioshock Infinite. If you guys could add more levels, that would be dank. Also there should be one where the theme is dogs, because dogs are amazing and cute and fluffy. On an unrelated note, I have three cats. Crazy right? Waffles is a tabby with waffled colored hair, Rubix is a gray mackerel tabby, and Swagblazer brown Norwegian Forest Cat.

It seems very cryptic at first but as you progress the game, you are provided more decoding tools and puzzles starts to make sense. But before you get the decoding tool, you need to figure out what the logic behind it first. If you are intrigued by the idea of Enigma machine+ cryptology and decoding binary, Caesarian shift, morse code, etc. sounds fun to you, this will be very enjoyable (for me it was).

Compared to most games out there, this mind game is brilliant! I wish there were more like it! It caught me off guard at start, with a somewhat confusing beginning. But once you get a few levels its great fun. With some levels being simpler than others, and some being.... Well let say "just crazy harder". Making you think inside, outside, and threw another dimension for the box, and always Asking yourself " whats in the box?". Fun little mind games, with a twist of logic, math, cryptology, and such. Along with a drone of ambient noise soundtrack, Just to make it kinda creepy! Totally worth the $$$.. Definitely buy if you like this type of game! -.. --- .-- -. / - .... . / .-. .- -... -... .. - / .... --- .-.. .

Some bad moments

I read the description and thought wow this is a game I would really enjoy its gonna be so fun well no it is terrible and I want a refund

For the cost, I expected a lot more. Puzzles are repetitive with frequent use of a decoder to shift letters or convert binary. Not really challenging. These arent puzzles, just retyping characters.

It wouldve been ok if you didnt need it to solve the puzzle but its just really tiny on iphone

Agree with other reviewer bsdug... I tried to input an answer and it didnt accept it leading me to think I was wrong and I got so frustrated I consulted the interwebs only to realize I was correct. So now every couple of levels I have to close and restart the game so that it will acknowledge my input. Its pretty annoying and indeed detracts from the experience. Nice game but execution gives it a fail rating until fixed.

Great concept. Cant put it down. Agree that some of the text is just a whee bit too small... But not a show stopper.

What a great mind-boggling game, its all so simple and hard to figure out. Ive been stuck on parts for days, come back after a while and just see the answer. I love it.

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