God of Word

Tl;dr some good ideas, but too reliant on RNG to be consistently enjoyable. I was expecting something like Typer Shark, but this is not that. Most of the campaign plays like Scrabble on steroids, which won't be fun for everyone. It's not a bad purchase at a discount I suppose. Now, this thumbs down does not mean that this game should be avoided like the plague. It just wasn't for me. I normally enjoy typing/word games, but put Scrabble on a timer and you take the fun out of it. This is most noticeable in campaign missions, which give you seven letters and a timer as you type words that contain at least three of those letters. I'm not sure if this design succeeds in pushing you to type faster. It felt more like my brain was scrambling to turn random assortments of letters into as many words as I possibly could. "Wait, is that even a real word? Whatever, I got points for it." The game as a whole wasn't a great learning experience, in my opinion. (Also, it refused to accept "cack" for some reason.) Speaking of learning experience, will this help EFL speakers get used to the mire of chaos that is English spelling? I doubt it. Common words in English can get quite long, but you only encounter >7-letter words in some modes. Endless typing is not as complex as in Typer Shark. It does not reward you for not making typos, and the difficulty setting only changes the time limit (not the word length). A lot of the campaign ends up depending on RNG, as you restart in hopes of getting a less unfortunate set of letters. Hangman was just... no. Who even plays hangman without any hints whatsoever? It's a guessing game based on pure luck, with you wasting your first few guesses on the most common vowels in your chosen language. It doesn't actually test your vocabulary or typing skills. Treasure chests could be better designed, too. Unless you're able to guess extremely obscure words like puberal, linguae, and maculas, you're gonna need Tyche on your side. As for the positives, I liked the art direction. Some of the boss fights felt gimmicky, but others were interesting. The [spoiler]cease and desist letter for Typhon[/spoiler] was funny, I guess. At first I thought the difficulty spike from normal to hard was too drastic, but things got easier as I levelled up and bought better equipment. Sound design was not unique or satisfying like in Typer Shark, but it wasn't bad by any means. I think the game could have done more with the theme, like make a challenge where you guess a word that has Greek roots or type as many heroes and monsters of Greek mythology as you can think of. It would also have been nice to have a word log feature that notifies you when you discover a new word in gameplay.