Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered

It's a great game overall, if you played bookworm adventures it's almost exactly the same. Some differences, time trials and difficult stages are added which I think is a plus. The story is basically nonexistent, you don't play this game for the story. Rather than getting treasures from bosses you get currency for beating any enemy even if you lose on a level, I don't know if it's better or worse. The music doesn't have much variety but it's catchy. You can type with a keyboard, at least for the letters; not sure if you can use the keyboard to consume potions. There aren't many difficult choices for what to buy since what's optimal is obvious so if you're looking for everything to be relevant you picked the wrong game. However, this is generally meant to be a fairly laid back easy game aside from time trials and those can get easier later when you get the right book. There are some problems about a third of the way into the game and lesser problems before that. The lesser problems are some enemies will transform your tiles to a single letter which usually is terrible, but it could be worse. The worse thing is certain enemies take no damage aside from specific circumstances like a word starting with a vowel or because they're vulnerable to the letter Q the devs felt justified in giving it high damage and health. This means unlike Bookworm Adventures you are required to shuffle sometimes or have very little choice which just feels like bad design. Remember that new gimmicks to a game doesn't always make it better.

Word nerds will love this.-.

this game appeals to my love for turn based RPGs and the strategy of using words is such a unique approach!a truly unique gem!

It's a nice looking word game with some rpg like elements but not really a big story. You basically fight monsters by spelling out words, upgrade your stats, and buy items to help you on your journey. I liked upgrading at first but then a lot of the upgrades didnt seem to change much so I just bought them to buy them. I think its a great concept of a game and would like to see more like it, with more variety in weapons/upgrades/monsters.

Figure out the words and beat the levels pretty simple. Mopped up some of the earlier levels once you unlock upgrades. Rinse and repeat. Great time killer and decent priced no complaints here.

Fun little word game. The story is light but actually ads to the game. I really like the variance of different types of word related features and challenges that you are offered. It manages to offer a bit extra without losing focus on the fact this is a word creation game at its heart. I got it for a steal and am more than happy with what I bought. Also comes with the og version.

I played Letter Quest when it was first released on XB1 and although I absolutely hammered it back then, it was more than worth a rebuy for my recent Steam Deck purchase. What you get: A 40 level campaign (appx 10-15 hours to complete) in which you unlock & purchase upgrades to help you on your quest and an endless mode complete with a Steam leaderboard. Note: Power-ups earned in campaign do not carry over into endless mode.....you start with a default loadout and upgrade along the way. Oh, and I also received the original Letter Quest with my purchase so two games (albeit almost identical) for the price of one! Steam deck compatibility: Remastered works in both docked and hand-held mode but the original Letter Quest is touch screen only with no community layouts available. My only minor gripe is the inbuilt dictionary allowing proper nouns...but you kind of get used to being able to use the 'word' Bolivia to thin out of a rack full of junk so all is partly forgiven. UK localised words (centre, colour, metre etc etc) are also included alongside American alternatives, so that's another bonus. All in all though, despite it's age I've come across very few letter jiggling games that have improved on Letter Quest, so for me personally it's a very, very easy recommendation.