
Spell words, pick perks, score points, and survive until the end. Every round is different. How far can you make it?
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About
Word Play is a brain-busting spelling game about making words, getting perks, and scoring big.
Imagine your favourite word game - but where you get to change the rules and the tiles as you play!
Spelling
Click, drag, or type to spell the best and biggest words you can find.
Scoring
Score points based on the value of each letter, and the length of the word.
Perks
Score enough points to clear the round and you'll get a chance to pick from more than 150 perks!
Modifiers
Modifiers change the rules of the game, in your favour. Add more tile spaces, build Bonus Points, make Q tiles become QU tiles, and more.
Upgrades
Upgrades let you improve, destroy, discard, or duplicate tiles.
Gifts
Gifts add new tiles to your letter bag. Like wildcards, mirror tiles, and the legendary + tile.
Special Tiles
Upgrade tiles to special forms like Golden, Diamond, Emerald, and Potion, to score more points.
Synergies and Strategies
Combine modifiers, upgrades, gifts, and special tiles in clever ways to score big!
Special Rounds
Watch out for devious Special Rounds that require perfect play.
Roguelike Structure
Can you reach the end of the game without running out of "Plays"? Or will you have to start again from scratch?
Difficulty Settings
Learn the ropes with Easy mode, then try Normal, Hard, Legendary, and Marathon modes.
Casual Mode
Play with fewer strategic elements in Quick Play - just spell words and try to win medals!
Accessibility Features
Play with mouse, keyboard, or controller. Use dyslexic fonts and / or high contrast mode. Get spelling suggestions. And more.
Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud
Unlock more than 20 achievements. Sync your save games across devices using Steam Cloud.
Steam Deck Verified
Play with gamepad controls, or fluid touchscreen input. Graphics and options are tweaked and tuned for the Steam Deck.
Custom Dictionaries
Use experimental modding features to import custom dictionaries in different languages. (Note: in-game text will remain in English. Game is only balanced for English words).
Genres
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 64 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
FUN DOPE ♥♥♥♥ UP YOUR VOCAB GAME DYOOODDDDDD
Mediocre
Boggle meets Balatro. A delightful word-building where you're not just building long words, but words that match all the modifiers you're accruing. The main gameplay is very fun, although definitely relies on you knowing a lot of words. The special rounds are also a fun mix-up, but some of them are nearly run-ending, like the one that only lets you build small words at first, essentially forcing you to waste turns. Some of the modifiers are also way better than others, meaning runs can be won or lost based on random modifier pulls instead of good gameplay. Still, modifier curation is its own game, and generally makes word-building a lot more interesting.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 64 reviews with recorded playtime.
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This is a straightforward boggle style spelling game with unusual choice of power ups to help you reach the golden score. A good gradient between the levels of difficulty. No time stress and I love to have the time to think. I'd like a truly endless sandbox, but each game takes up quite a bit of time to complete it might be overkill.
Enjoyable to Play, just make sure you are good at spelling and have a broad knowledge of words. LONG WORDS!
polished, relaxing, entertaining
The game is just great! It keeps my mind boiling every single time!
A ton of enjoyment here if you like scrabble and anagrams. Combine that with some varied multipliers and other kinds of bonus tiles to make a kind of Balatro-lite for people who like words. I've done hard mode at this point, looking forward to tackling legendary next. I can't see this taking over my life but I can see it as something I'll come back to semi-regularly. Good fun.
I think it is pretty sold, if not a little basic in some regards. I wish there was more variety with the things I have seen so far, which would enhance the random run nature of a game like this.
Daily yum yum word tiles.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
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