Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't

Just a lot of fun. Love the characters, the humor, the overall look of everything. AND this might be the only way I can enjoy chess! ;p

Balatro fellows, this is your new fix. Scrabble players, this is your new fix. Humans, get cursed. 100% love it, 100% worth it. I hope we get a cursed word & pronoun palace cross-over.

There isn't really a point writing a long review for Cursed Words, because some games just work. And it is one of them.

So much fun, word search quickly turns into insanity as builds get weirder and weirder. Its a rewarding game to puzzle out and well worth it.

yea this game is very cool

BOGGLE BUT B♘GGL1NG

I will likely come back to this game at some point. It's definitely not in my top games list but it's extremely smooth and quite fun to play. I feel like the developer(s) really understood what Balatro special and did a good job of converting that to a new core mechanic. If we're treating "Balatrolikes" as a new category, this is a solid early entry. I think my favorite aspect of the game is uncovering little details. The more you unlock, the more it starts to almost feel mysterious. In particular, the stamps that require you to spell out certain words to upgrade them are a delight. I still never figured out the secret color, but I got almost every other one before the game showed them to me. The good news AND bad news is that having a great vocabulary is not in any way required. It helps early on, but to finish difficult runs, it starts to feel effectively *required* to be making words mostly or entirely out of wildcards. I think it's safe to say that, of the words I've submitted in this game, at least 95% were made of enough wildcards that I had no idea what word the game was going to pick. This is okay for some characters, but makes the earliest, "simplest" characters feel extremely weak, and makes some mechanics seem almost useless. Still, much fun was had overall and the final boss fight is very cute and interesting. I also got to look up several dozen utterly absurd words I'd never heard of before, like HRYVNIAS.

Really love this game, great art + music and a cool idea. The variety of power-ups/gimmicks for the different runs is excellent. Only minor criticism is it probably isn't as well balanced as Balatro, but I would definitely recommend it.

"I don't think I can draw all those symbols. I guess I'll just write UNHINGED."

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