Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't

This game is super well made and cute, but it quickly becomes a game of "how many wilds can i string together in a row?" and then the game tells you the word you made. It makes it a lot less interesting gameplay wise and I got bored. I bought it after trying the first character in the demo but all of the different wild types made me like it less. I kind of wish you had to say what letter the wild is, like the blank tiles in scrabble.

Actually a very solid and original roguelike crossword/word search puzzle in the spirit of Balatro. Significantly underrated, a bit on the easy side outside of challenges, but very fun nonetheless. The game does requires English fluency at minimum to be played properly, which is probably part of its lower player/review count. There is also Spanish, German and French languages, but they are not the intended experience and will likely have balance and functionality issues. By design the game does not punish you for not having an extensive vocabulary as you can just try combinations until you have a valid word, although linguistic skills ARE rewarded. The way the game evolves as you unlock more content is really cool and interesting, it adds a lot to the gameplay and quickly becomes amusing chaos where it's less about words or letters, and more about a monstrous amalgation of several table games, while never fully losing the word game aspect. Just don't expect it to remain some kind of tame scrabble. Some people will complain about diluted pools, but that is a rather asinine criticism as the game feels way more balanced when it has more content, and games are meant to get harder the futher you progress through them, aren't they? The game feels how it should feel when the pool is bigger. The early game state is the game with the training wheels on, not understanding that is having it backward. Otherwise there are already some very abusable strategies that become way too consistent compared to others. Some people expect that out of a roguelike, that's missing the entire point of the genre. And even then there are a few items that help with the economy/rerolls, very generous shop refreshes on top of the shop having a bias for items that fit your build, which at that point if you still have an issue with the item pool... it's either a skill issue or the RNG gods having it out for you, sorry.

Characters are cute, but quickly become annoying, though you can mute them in the options, I think. Bought this because I love playing Boggle and I saw them playing it on Game Grumps. Way more complicated than I wanted. Don't miss any explanations about the rules; you can't look them up in-game if you do, I was scratching my head about the numbers showing up after I either went to fast or didn't parse the explanation. You'll either have to turn to a guide or replay everything up till that point. Once the numbers got involved, this game lost me. They're not lying; "the words don't matter." So if they matter to you, don't bother. Too late to refund, but I won't play this again.

The best Balatro-like I've seen. It's an endless font of fun and surprising interactions that still maintains a certain Boggle-like character while not requiring too much word knowledge. Just don't spend too long searching each grid for the perfect word.

As I'm sure many other reviews have stated, this game is very much like Balatro, but Boggle/Scrabble instead of Poker. I am so happy I decided to grab it because it has been such a fun game. I like how you progress through unlocking different curses rather than just having everything thrown at you all at once. I've had several runs where my words were almost the entire grid, and I was just waiting to see what the game decided to tell me I'd actually said. It's a great game to just play a run or two to give your brain a break between other things!

Now you too can learn how to spell Q??4?♜S? E: There is, unfortunately, a light hissing / breathing noise that you have totally mute the otherwise good sound effects to get rid of, it's not great on headphones