Building inspiring player supported games because your brain is too valuable to waste on advertisements.

Purposeful Video Games

Northern Cipher exists to create stimulating, educational, and uplifting games. Free-to-play advertising and tracker-laden games are divorced from the drive to implement games with the cognitive and cultural benefits the medium has the potential to deliver. Big budget titles must embrace popular culture for reasons of economics and politics. 

The belief that a market exists for thoughtful and unapologetic games that embrace cultures other than atomized consumerism inspired the creation of Northern Cipher. High budget rendering spectacles have an undeniable beauty. The masses provide huge revenue to the creators of free-to-play phone games in order to numb their minds. Indie developers are the wellspring of creativity and passion.

Never forget, gaming should not be the primary focus of a human life. Gaming needs to be a secondary or tertiary pursuit akin to reading fiction. Just as a man should choose the literature he reads to improve his intellectual and spiritual condition, so should he choose his games.

Worthwhile games should engage the mind rather than distract it. Should inspire with feats of courage, moral resolve, and tenacity. Help the player to dwell upon historical themes and heritage, ponder how things can be different in the future, or consider what actions should be taken in the present.