Anagrams

[b]Anagrams[/b] is the first game by Hero Game Co LLC, creators of Prose and Codes, Poems and Codes, and The Case of the Worst Day Ever. The developers appear to have a love of word games and have carried this through all of their subsequent titles. In this, their earliest offering, players must complete match-two puzzles in order to solve a vast array of anagrams. It is a minimalistic but fun and relaxing experience that doesn’t try to add too many bells and whistles to simple word games, whilst still elevating things in subtle ways. It keeps the format and aesthetic clean, allowing players to sit back and enjoy the match-two puzzles and anagrams whilst also feeling a sense of progress and achievement through the level structure and categories, as well as the choice of game modes, and earning/spending keys. The various mechanics in the puzzle sections add variety, ensuring that the game remains fresh and interesting and also emphasise the sense of growth and achievement felt by the player. It is a great value for money, containing hours and hours of family-friendly entertainment, and much like Hero Game Co LLC’s later games, I would happily recommend this to fans of puzzle and word games. [b]WANT TO KNOW MORE?[/b] My full review of this game where I go into detail about gameplay, and styling is available on [url=https://indie-hive.com/anagrams/]Indie Hive[/url].

I am completely addicted to this game. It's very calming and a great chill game for when I'm listening to podcasts or video. Also, it works FLAWLESSLY on Steam Deck!

An absolutely relaxing game, with the perfect amount of challenge. I find myself returning regularly.

Tile matching quickly becomes tedious. Game stopped giving keys a long time ago, so I will have to start another profile to unlock all modes. Plenty of content, I have over 100 hours played and am less than 60 percent of the way through classic mode.

This game only worked the first time I played it. Now, I click play, it looks like it pops up momentarily, and then it closes. I tried reinstalling it, but it did not change the results. Does anybody have any suggestions about how I can get this game to work? Edit: I got a new harddrive, and now this game works!

Good way to relax, kill time, matching tiles & solving anagrams.

This game is perfect for relaxing. Turn down the sound in settings and have your own sounds on in the background while you play this; or have your own sound down and just play this while watching stuff. It's a great puzzle game, with heaps of content, a hints system (not always helpful, but the internet exists), and you can replay if you fail a level. No stress, bright colours, great for word lovers.

I have accidentally played this game for almost the entire day, it's extremely addicting.

Has a lot of potential, but the later puzzles in each category will easily block you off and prevent you from finding combinations, which causes a fail state where no available moves are left, and you're made to restart the level until you can hope the random generation of tiles blesses you enough to let you have some reasonable combinations. Really sucks because everything else about this is nice. But I can't get behind fail states blocking your progress. EDIT: Seeing how the developer responded to my review, I'm amending my rating. The levels are much easier to complete now - not taking me up to 4 times to hope the matching works out. One last tweak I'd like to see is a guarantee of each piece (i.e. half-letter) on the board at any given time, but since I was able to complete a harder level on my first try, I'm not sure whether this is needed. It would just help to speed up the play as you're closing out the puzzle, and are only looking for one last letter's match. I do enjoy the game, and the modified difficulty seems to help it match the more casual and relaxed tone that it has.

Nice little casual game to play, perfect for those moments when you're not sure what you feel like playing. It's 50% solving an anagram and 50% tile matching puzzle game. I did not like the tile game at first, but it grew on me quickly. It's fun and breaks up the monotony of just deciphering anagrams. The tile game also gets more interesting and gets special tiles as you progress through difficulty.