Mu Complex

great game

Requirements to player's cultural knowledge is too high. Developer is clearly not aware some people are not their exact copies. Also some puzzles have become literally unsolvable in an intended way due to some game-unrelated things.

Unfortunately some very cool ARG elements of the game have been broken by the passage of time, and the dev has abandoned the project. Sad to see.

Game requires access to paid services outside of Steam to complete. Dev has been made aware as of several years ago and has chosen not to correct the issue.

Super interesting concept that I haven't really encountered in many other places. You'll feel like a hacker! Also, some things require you to look up things online (not like a guide, but IMDB or other archived information). I found this to be a really cool and interesting feature despite others not seeming to enjoy it.

Let me start by saying that the game is fun, and with enough internet kudos-fu, experience, you can still work out how to solve these problems by yourself given you have access to the internet (mailer.mucomplex.com), and can change system-critical settings (for TLS applications) like the machine's non-NTP clock time in order for the game to generate the right time-based code or allow access. The game is aging, and activity on the social media accounts has stopped since around May of 2023, meaning that for some solutions, you will need to look up guides because microfilm archival sites are paywalled and spammy or nonexistent, map websites are no longer easy to use functionally like drawing lines while keeping certain points of interest visible and in frame (good luck searching for specific map apps that can do this easily), the game continually generates new codes where postings of such ciphers has stopped, AI tools are not capable of correctly deciphering simple strings given most of the information, etc. Some things can be learned by using actual real world libraries, like the King James Bible whereas other versions do not use the right words, or understanding simple Caesar-based…