Word Play

Word Play is a spelling game where you make words, earn perks and score points. You can change the rules and tiles as you play, combining them to build strategies and raise your scores.

Spell and score

Click, drag or type to form words. Your score depends on the value of each letter and the length of the word. Earn enough points to clear a round and choose from more than 150 perks.

Perks and tiles

Perks let you alter the rules, improve your tiles and add new ones to your letter bag. They include:

• Modifiers: change the rules in your favour, such as adding tile spaces, building Bonus Points or turning Q tiles into QU tiles.
• Upgrades: improve, destroy, discard or duplicate tiles.
• Gifts: add tiles such as wildcards, mirror tiles and the legendary + tile to your letter bag.
• Special tiles: upgrade tiles into Golden, Diamond, Emerald or Potion forms to score more points.

Combining modifiers, upgrades, gifts and special tiles can create different scoring strategies. Special Rounds add challenges that require perfect play.

Modes and difficulty

The roguelike structure asks you to reach the end of the game without running out of “Plays”; otherwise, you start again from scratch. Difficulty settings include Easy, Normal, Hard, Legendary and Marathon. Quick Play’s Casual Mode reduces the strategic elements: spell words and try to win medals.

Other features

The game supports mouse, keyboard and controller play, dyslexic fonts, high-contrast mode and spelling suggestions. It includes more than 20 achievements and Steam Cloud save syncing across devices. On Steam Deck, it supports gamepad controls and touchscreen input, with graphics and options tuned for the device. Experimental modding features let you import custom dictionaries in different languages; in-game text remains in English, and the game is balanced only for English words.