WordTactics Reviews

Quite relaxing and a little frustrating towards the end of each game (as you'd expect.) Very enjoyable and different.

The idea is fine, but needs a lot of refinement. End of game is quite lazily, doesn't rely on your ability to put words together, just unremovable tiles to artificially kill it off, or flooding you with unusable letters (Xs, Ks etc). Special tiles are pointless mostly, given very few do anything bar add a few points to the score. It's fine as a demo or proof of concept, but there's little strategy involved, and doesn't make me want to play it again.

You cycle through random letter tiles like Scrabble and place them on a board. Select a tile from the board, then adjacent ones to form word combos. Thus it's fairly open-ended as you plan the board for giant combos. The game ends when your board is filled, and you can't form anymore words. Games can last anywhere between 20 minutes to hours. There are different game modes and even leaderboards where you can upload to or watch other players' games on the workshop. There's even a spellchecker. Can be played with mouse-only if you choose. I recommend this game to anyone looking for word games or puzzle games.

This is a deceptively simple game. The graphics are simple and it doesn't take long to get the hang of it but there is a lot of strategy involved in letter placement to enable you to find the best words. As the game goes on it gets more complex, with letter tiles with various special effects, which adds to the enjoyment. You can choose different game lengths, starting at half an hour, and there are two extra modes: infinite and survival. This game is all about thinking, words, and strategy and I'm finding the main problem with it is that I can so easily get lost in in and lose track of time. All for the price of coffee and a bun. Highly recommended.