Word Wonders: The Tower of Babel

Lots of fun and I like making the potions and weapons to help you in battle and it's fun with the spellbook items you get and I like the Boost Board with the letter to help your life span go up or your energy level go up that is so helpful to me when I play.

Word Wonders is okay as far as word games go. It's one of the better Steam Word Games, which isn't saying much since the choice here is fairly limited. It could be so much better if there were achievements and badges. The barebones of the game itself is good. You place down words on a grid, as per scrabble, against an opponent, and get various special moves. The gameplay itself gets a bit repetitive and it would be nice to have some different challenges and limits on various levels. There's only three difficulty levels, the first being no limits, the second 3 letters or less words cause you damage, and the third being you only get 5 letters in your hand. I'd have liked to have seen more variety though. I did like the boost-board, it was a fun concept, that you have to place letters on a scrabble board and the more total points you have on the board, the more energy and health boost you get. I liked the idea of the alchemy potions too, where you collect items at the end of levels and can use those to brew a variety of potions.. As it stands this is an okay word game. I've played better. I've played worse.

This was a pretty fun game for me... in small doses. Definitely not your average create a word game as there is actually a bunch of extra stuff to do along side all of that. It offers your standard levels where you are battling your enemies taking turns playing words off each other but only the last word played stays on the board and there can be obstructions on the board as well as different shapes the board can take. then on top of that every level has 2 challenge levels to complete it and get all the stars for said level. The stars then contribute your level ups and give you more coins and items to use in the store and hero submenu. In the hero submenu you have a boost board where you can lay out the letters you collect (and purchase) to increase the overall value of the board for added powerups. There is also an alchemy section in there where you can mix different potions and items to help in the tougher battles. All of these extras, while nice become (at least for me) a bit tedious after a while but honestly necessary to complete the game. So overall I did enjoy the game and do recommend it. I picked it up on sale but it's easily worth the 5 bucks also. 20 hours on record as of this writing and I'm about 85% completely done with the game. I'll finish it eventually but sometimes gets too tedious to continue playing lol. Overall I'd score it about 6 out of 10. efinitely worth it, but not outstanding.

Word Wonders: The Tower of Babel is a moderately entertaining game. It's not going top any charts but it also isn't completely worthless... it's just mediocre. The game title "Tower of Babel" is fitting with the theme of language and words and the game does draw on some Middle Eastern themes. The Tower of Babel was supposedly in Babylon or what would be modern day Iraq. It features characters like the "Baba Brothers" including an Ali Baba which take on a more Arabian Nights feel even though the Tower of Babel would have been centuries before that. It also features "Possessed" characters who look a little bit like they drew inspiration from the Xerxes of the movie 300 so I'm guessing a bit Persian. There's also characters like the Naga which would be of Indian influence. So the game is kind of all over the place. It's pretty consistent in that regard with many orientalist stereotypes. Surely enough our hero follows the stereotypical story of growing up a poor thief. The backstory and minimal dialogue in the game are not particularly entertaining nor do they feel very memorable as a cohesive story. The game play is fairly simple and easy. Tiles will be laid on the board to start forming a word. You then build a word off the other word. Once you do the other word disappears except any letter(s) you used in what you laid down. Then your opponent does the same off your word and so on and so forth. The letter tiles have symbols in the corners that indicate how much damage they do to your opponent or how much energy you will gain. There are also bonus coins available on the board and sometimes 2X or 3X bonuses that will multiply damage. The goal is to get your opponent to 0 health before they do it to you. As you gain energy you may be able to use certain power-ups. Winning a level releases ingredients which can be used to create things like health potions. You may also gain coins and letters which you can use on a bonus boost board to gain health and energy boosts. You can use coins to buy additional things like more letters for the board. I was a little disappointed with the game's dictionary. I ave a fairly extensive vocabulary but there were quite a few 3 letter words used that I've never heard of and to be honest doubt their validity. Some seem to be spelled backwards/upside down even though I am not allowed to enter words backwards/upside-down. In addition several times I've tried making words that should be valid but which don't appear to be in the game's dictionary so they don't count. All in all it's led to some frustrating moments. Then there's the level bosses... I really hate them. I don't like to use power-ups and health potions, I prefer to be able to just go through and win. The bosses however are near impossible to do that with since they have at least 2X your health. Even when I make a lot of high Hit Point words I cannot beat bosses. The only way is to use special abilities/power-ups. I don't like that part at all. Overall, this makes for a mildly entertaining casual game that you you can play 1 round here and there in or simply barrel through as many levels as possible... The game play can be a bit repetitive though so only a few levels is generally enough.

Fantastic word RPG, similiar to Bookworm Adventures, Letter Quest, and other casual games. The theme is Arabian Nights, and with alchemy crafting and a personal scrabble board which unlocks powers, Word Wonders is not generic. The artwork and gameplay is exactly what one expects from casual games from the year it was a made. I really have to tip my hat to the programming and game design- there is a lot that went into this to make a fantastic, replayable, word game. Minor quibbles: 1) sometimes I have to reset my magic board when I get new letters, and it could be frustrating to get more points when setting up again. 2) Loading times are slower than newer games. 3) Like most casual games from that era, the people did a really great job but offer no updates, support, and just move on to crank out the next project. So the community is dead on this on, and it got lost in the shuffle. But in reality, if this game had better marketing, it would be beloved and if it was ported over to mobile with marketing, it would be a Top 100 game.

É uma variação do jogo de palavras cruzadas, com batalhas contra a máquina em que você pode usar magias para alterar o tabuleiro ou dar mais dano. É meio que um jogo de estratégia com palavras cruzadas. Se você gosta de jogos de palavras é bem divertidinho. Me custou amendoins e eu sempre volto a jogar. Ah, óbvio, É EM INGLÊS. Se você não sabe inglês nem chega perto que não vai rolar. Mas é um ótimo exercício caso você esteja aprendendo o idioma.

Surprisingly fun and complex little word game. In addition to playing micro-scrabble puzzles, you level up and gain gold to unlock various perks and powers that make the gameplay different over time. The enemies also have a variety of powers, making each game feel just different enough to avoid getting boring.