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.
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Reviews
Themes across 44 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I've played a few these Balatro-inspired Scrabble games, but this one is the best, and I put that down to the UI feeling a lot more refined and crispy. Beware that you will do best in this game if you are actually good at spelling words. On higher difficulties you really have to depend on being able to spell long words for bonus points and to save your limited number of plays for the harder rounds, the perks will only carry you so far, which some people will dislike.
very fun, very addictive, didn't accept Marxism or Marxist as a word and accepted Bottoming. what does this mean
Juegazo, buenísimo. ponganlo en español por favor y me vuelvo adicto. Awesome game, really good. If you put it in spanish i'll be totally addicted.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Deceptively simple and ridiculously fun! This game is very much Balatro for people less familiar with poker and more familiar with scrabble. It's so addictive, and nothing is as satisfying as writing a word with the perfect length and all the power-ups stack together.
I can make it to the 10th Round at least. That Boss Round gets tough.
As a roguelike fan, this is not a recommend, - the modifier variety and influence on your gameplay is pretty insignificant but for a few (also the legendary modifiers at times are straight up more useless than the common ones). As a challenge to test your English vocabulary by patiently brainstorming all the possible word formations from the given letters - it's fun, as you can see I have plenty of play time. Unfortunately, completing the last difficulty seems nigh impossible and it just isn't very fun to keep trying, - the point requirement scaling is high, even if you find a word so crazy you pat yourself on the back and celebrate - it's sometimes completely useless in the long run, and one minute later - you're hanging by a thread again, scrambling for points to win a round. Had a couple of runs where the setup felt close to being broken I guess, but that never took me further than completing Legendary and Marathon modes.
solid time waster
scrabble balatro
v awesome v cool.. uhm... key remapping please... like 2 and 3 are right next to each other and its really easy to slip up.. like id rather 2 be tab or something
Do you love word games? Do you ever wish they were MORE addicting? Then boy do I have a game for you... All joking aside this game is really enjoyable. I've been playing it somewhat co-op on the couch with my spouse helping come up with words. Tons of fun.
Audience
Estimated from the language of this game's reviews — a proxy for where players are, not official Steam demographics.
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