Safecracker

by Dreamcatcher

Product Features

• A challenging puzzle adventure game with 35 unique safes to crack
• Many creative and clever puzzles that are truly unique
• Explore over 30 lavish and intriguing rooms of an extravagant mansion
• Decipher unexpected clues inside each safe that will help you open the others ultimately leading you to the master safe
• Non-linear approach to exploration of the mansion and safecracking

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001DSM2B8
• Item Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 25, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,898 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

In Safecracker, you're hired to solve a mystery through your safecracking skills. After being hired by the family of Duncan Walter Adams, the recently deceased billionaire, you learn just how eccentric the old man was. He's hidden the deed to his riches in one of the safes scattered in his magnificent mansion. He just happened to be a safe collector and clues to his will are in some of those safes. Your job is to crack all 35 of them! The stakes are high and the clues are scarce, so use your wits to earn a hefty paycheck. Non-linear approach to exploration of the mansion and safecracking Developed by Kheops Studio, renowned creators of best-sellers Return to Mysterious Island (The Adventure Company, 2005) and The Secrets of Da Vinci (Nobilis, 2006) PC CD-ROM Works with Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Safecracker the Ultimate Puzzle Adventure, April 6, 2011

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zixca - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Safecracker (CD-ROM)

I love puzzles and thought this sounded like a fun challenge. It was really too difficult for me. The clues too vague to really give me insight as to where I was to go next. I found myself spending more time on web pages with cheats then in the game itself so I never finished it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Can't play it on Wndows Vista, January 30, 2010

By 

Andrew T. Wootten "what is the need for this?" (Somewhere, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Safecracker (CD-ROM)

Have been completely unsuccessful at playing this, so far, on my Windows Vista computer. Attempts to contact the makers of the game, Dreamcatcher, have been unsuccessful as well. Windows compatibility function does not work. I get a "projector skeleton" error. I really wanted a challenging puzzle game to play, but this was a waste of money as it seems my computer is "too new" to play it on.

It was not clearly listed by the seller that this requires a dinosaur computer to play it on.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging, December 30, 2009

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Toppro (Ohio) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Safecracker (CD-ROM)

This is an unbelievable game. The genius that went in to programming this is something else. It will challenge all the perceptive and logic thinking atoms in your brain. The first safe you find will provide a decent amount of challenge for some, since there are no instructions on what to do to crack it, and nothing more than a few subtle hints from the character you're playing. You must however, crack this safe in order to roam through other parts of the mansion. I solved this one fairly fast, but I have seen reviews on other sites that state they were not able to figure it out and gave up on the game. You will feel a great sense of accomplishment when you finally crack any of the safes in this game. There are no instructions on how to open any safe you run across so you will need to use all your wits to figure them out.

Some of the safes are fairly easy to crack, but there are some that will take you anywhere from 20 minutes to possibly an hour or so to figure out. I was stuck on several safes for quite some time, thinking I was never going to figure it out. At that point I just put it up for a while and came back to it and was able to sovle it. In a lot of cases the answer to cracking the safe you are working on is hidden in plain view, but not neccesarily near that safe. One must traverse the mansion to find all the clues that will open every safe.

When you run across a 4 digit combination to open a lock, you will not need to go through the 9,000 possible combinations to open it...lol There is an answer for each and every 4 digit lock hidden in the game. The slidder puzzles were the most challenging to me because there is no answer to it in the game. You must use your mind to figure these out. I did however, crack all 35 safes in under 20 hours of game play. You do spend a lot of time going from room to room and upstairs and downstairs to find additional clues and safes to ulock. All in all one of the most challenging games I have ever run across, for those who like to use their minds. It was even more challenging than the Nacny Drew games! Well worth the price.