Word Forward
Brain-pleasing, highly addictive puzzle game with an earworm of a theme tune. Would 100% recommend to all of the word lovers out there. One minor complaint: when I beat Level 500, the menu stopped working. I consider that a crash. Tried it again and got the same result. Not much of a congratulatory message! :-)
– Real player with 27.6 hrs in game
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You have to like word games and have good English vocabulary to get the most out of a game like Word Forward. The interface is simple and reasonably well done, but dragging diagonally between the squares on the board can sometimes take more than one attempt. If I could wish for one thing it would be Steam achievements, because without it, the game can become quite monotonous.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
Word Hunt Fever
the game crashed a few times but it is still a great game and an enjoyable challenge.
– Real player with 43.0 hrs in game
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Word Hunt Fever is a creative mixture between different puzzle games.
You have a checklist filled with words that you need to find, which is a lot harder than it sounds.
Finding a word rewards you with extra moves, and with those moves you can swap letters around on the board to create a word that you need.
You can also gain Shuffles which you can use when you are stuck, to get a new board filled with letters.
The goal is to set a perfect highscore to become number one on the global leaderboard.
– Real player with 14.8 hrs in game
HangTogether
This game reminds me of when I would play Hangman with a chalkboard or dry erase board as a kid. You may get a repeat word every once in a while, however there are quite a lot of words and a good selection of categories. The game gives you the default of Animals, and Sports, but you don’t have to stick with those categories. Animals and Sports are probably the easiest categories, while Grab Bag is the hardest. UK cities, US cities, and Ologies are somewhere in between. If you’re a young reader or learning English, this would be a good game to help with reading. It’s nothing flashy, but it’s a nice opportunity to Hang Together. ;)
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
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Word Wise
Fun game a little strange on exiting
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Very chill, low pressure game.
The kind of thing that’s fun and easy to mess around with while watching YouTube, listening to a podcast or whatever.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Letter Loops Pro
This is a great word game that will loosen up those cobwebs in your head.
Connect the letters with a line to make as many words as you can before the clock counts down.
The more words you find in each round and the bigger words, the higher the score.
You start with 3 lives. You need 3 words in a round to get more lives.
But be careful! Don’t let the line cross over itself or you will have to start a new word.
Oh yes, have fun.
Relaxicon
At some point, when you’re far along in terms of earned points and don’t want the particular run to end, it becomes less Relaxicon and a bit more Concentraticon and even Tensicon. Mainly, though, it is a simple, fairly easy and relaxing way to pass the time and work your brain and language skills. I really like the very detailed dictionary-based explanation of each applied word. It’s especially good for those learning the language - or just wanting to broaden their vocabulary.
Much recommended!
– Real player with 39.8 hrs in game
Pros
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Minimalist word game with great “feel” and responsiveness. Elements pop, float, and drift with natural animations.
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Gameplay is straightforward and self-explanatory. Like Scrabble or Boggle, it maintains its longevity through simplicity. Longer words score higher. Varied words prevent hitting the “same letter limit.”
Cons
- Dictionary is inconsistent. Sometimes word forms like past-participles, adverbs, and gerunds are allowed. Other times they are not. It all depends on whether the specific word is arbitrarily in the accepted word list or not. This becomes a problem when you’re at risk of a letter-limit game-over or fail a “minimum word length” challenge because you can’t add a -ing, -ous, or -tten suffix.
– Real player with 17.6 hrs in game
Mini Words: Polyglot
I love this game. You don’t have to know another language to play. You pick which order you want the languages to give you clues. If one language doesn’t give you a hint then just click a few times to see other languages. You can often tell from the foreign word, especially the more complex words are very similar to English and other languages. Russian never helped me. It’s totally different. You often have to think of synonyms, like the clue is “thema” which is like theme and it’s a seven letter word that starts with S and has a J in it…. subject. Part of it is finding the words, and part of it is making them fit together. The later levels will have four or five words in a letter grid, and it’s like putting together a puzzle to fit the words in… You can use letters more than once, but you can’t cross lines.
– Real player with 38.6 hrs in game
This is a really nice game that includes several languages, including English, Russian, German, Portuguese, Spanish and French. This game will help you to learn or familiarize yourself with other languages.
There are 300 different levels to complete to unlock all the achievements. The game takes approximately 7 hours to complete. All the achievements are unlocked by completing all the levels, therefore none of the achievements are missable.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Bloxi: The Word Game
Bloxi allows you to exercise your vocabulary and learn new words! Fun and strategic powerups help you avoid the blocks from stacking to the top! Improve your high score and supercharge your word finding prowess in just a few rounds! Three difficulty levels and four play modes keep the game interesting and challenging as you improve.
Strive for the perfect combo! Each consecutive block you can make a word with increases your multiplier for huge point bonuses, so keep a close eye on every block, and keep those words flowing!
Make Words with the Letters in the Falling Shapes
Use Powerups Like the Big Bomb!
The Big Bomb clears the blocks around words that you get.
Longer Words Clear Extra Blocks and Score More Points!
Cause Chain Reactions as You Clear Words!!
Increase your odds with the Shockwave Powerup.
Features
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Three difficulties so you can decide your level of challenge
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Endless Mode - where you can only get each word once and the blocks fall faster and faster
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Clear Down Mode - where the objective is to clear all the grayed out blocks at the start
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Daily Challenge Mode - unique challenge each day, a letter is banned and there are indestructible blocks
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Zen Mode - where you can take all the time you want to make words, but you can only use each word once
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Saving and Loading lets you start and stop whenever you want
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Get consecutive words to increase your score multiplier, this will also start giving you free powerups
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Add a Row powerup helps you keep your streak going when playing in Endless Mode
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Learn obscure words for the logophiles out there!
Is this game for you?
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First of all, it really is a lot easier than it looks to play (on Easy Difficulty and Zen Mode). On the other hand, Daily Challenge on Hard Difficulty will really test your mettle.
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Do you like obscure words? If it will be fun for you to see weird and obscure words and learn new words that you’ll use in games like Scrabble and the Crossword, this could be a good match.
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If you like more casual games that you can then master or just play in a chill mode, we think you should keep learning more. Even as you get better you can try to beat each level faster and faster. If you want a game where you are planning ten moves ahead, this probably isn’t your game.
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The gameplay is centered around finding a word with the current block, this is rewarded by building up a multiplier by getting consecutive words too.
Fast Typing Master
font is horrible.
Too fast for most people
But I like the difficulty.
I average 90WPM
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
I will have to say, about the font choice–it is a bit difficult to read, especially in a time crunch. The R’s and A’s are too similar, as are the O’s and D’s, the K’s and X’s, and U’s and V’s. By the way, there is a typo in the description before the level starts–“disappear” is spelled wrong, as “disapear”. Besides all of this, the game has great potential. The graphics are simple but very well done, and the increasing speed of the words makes for a great challenge.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Typefighters (Steam Edition)
I’m gonna keep it very short and very.. whatever. I played this game a year ago and I took it again now just for fun xD
Well, I won only one thing in my entire life - European championships for typing speed or something like this. I mean, various titles in the same “competition” type XD
One can probably argue that this is one of the many causes that forced me to undergo surgery three times on my right hand, but this is another story.. xD
Well, I have always typed like at 700-800 characters per minute (NOT WPM, that means WORDS per minute! 800 words per minute I think not even an octopus). So this game was one of my very first choices on Steam.
– Real player with 55.6 hrs in game
This game has very great potential and I love the way it’s programmed. It has a very simple design, focusing only on the typing with no superfluous graphic distractions. The amount of modes is nice, and provides variety for those who want a simple game to play, and it also offers multiplayer options with people online. I personally play the Stream Mode, as it lets you know your WPM (since I purchased the game to help me type faster). HOWEVER. At the time of this review, I am VERY disappointed in the word choices: fake words, misspelled words, Roman numerals, acronyms, unnecessary apostrophes, proper nouns that aren’t capitalized, and way too many words about reproductive organs. I’m not sure if users are the ones who contribute to the word lists, but since you have to be online to play this game anyway, I think it would be better if the game just pulled words from an online dictionary instead.
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game