Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure

You play a professional safecracker hired by the family of the late Duncan W. Adams to find his will and testament. Adams was a safe collector, and the search leads through his mansion and its 35 locked safes.

Explore the mansion in first person, examining rooms and mechanisms for clues. Solving locks and using inventory items opens access to more rooms and floors, while a map helps track your progress.

Each safe presents a puzzle, and clues found around the mansion—and inside some safes—help you work out others as you progress toward the master safe. The challenges include different kinds of logic and mechanical puzzles, with little guidance on how to solve them.

Players who enjoy the game often point to its variety of safe puzzles and the satisfaction of working through a difficult challenge. Some also find it charming or nostalgic. Others say the limited guidance and occasional tedious or obscure puzzles make progress frustrating; reports of trouble running it on newer hardware also recur.