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.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 44 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
If only it would let me spell out sentences so I could use “WORDPLAY IS A GREAT GAME” as a valid play.
Very addicting
polished, relaxing, entertaining
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Trends
Concurrent players on Steam, sampled daily since tracking started.
Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
The game is just great! It keeps my mind boiling every single time!
Words be fun. Do the words.
Can I get a desktop extension for my backspace key to work like it does in Wordplay everywhere I type?
I think it is pretty sold, if not a little basic in some regards. I wish there was more variety with the things I have seen so far, which would enhance the random run nature of a game like this.
This is the kind of game that I would play on the subway on the way to work. It's no Balatro and it definitely could use more updates but if you like word games and you can get it on sale, it's pretty decent.
Daily yum yum word tiles.
Why do your points, when I you do exceptionally well and go over the point limit, get reset each round? If you gain 120 points for a 60 point round, then why do you start the next round with 0 points and not 60? Punishing the player for doing well is frustrating.
Audience
Estimated from the language of this game's reviews — a proxy for where players are, not official Steam demographics.
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