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From letters to lunacy, Cursed Words is a roguelike chasing ever-stronger synergies. Start with simple words like BUY or THIS or GAME, then use game-altering combos to break the rules. Before long you’ll be ¼♖♙K5XNG the ⅗H♗4 out of these 83VK??7?!

Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't is a casual, strategy and word game game developed by Buried Things and published by Forklift Interactive.
Released on April 02nd 2026 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 361 reviews of which 346 were positive and 15 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

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Casual Strategy Word Game Roguelike Roguelite 3D Comedy Funny Deckbuilding Indie Moddable Procedural Generation Score Attack Singleplayer

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
  • Processor: Intel Core i3
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated Graphics
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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April 2026
Yes, this is Boggle crossed with Scrabble, meets Balatro... at first. But as more stuff unlocks the gameplay gets wackier and wackier, and you're shifting back and forth between actually finding words, and just trying to string together as many combo tiles as your build will allow for. Half roguelite, half word finder, half puzzle game (and yes, that is 150%), there's a significant amount of rules and mechanics to juggle, not to mention the enormous amounts of modifiers you can unlock. And the game is rather fond of not spelling things out for you -- rumor has it there are still people out there who are trying to figure out how cards are supposed to work. And that one stamp that makes stickers with "red" in them cheaper? Yeah, that doesn't just do what you think it does. Roguelites being what they are, on the higher difficulties you do have to contend with RNG and accept that sometimes you have to roll with the punches and can't go for your intended build, but the game offers enough wacky fun times that it isn't even that much of a bother. With 37 hours under my belt and having beaten the boss (well... a boss, I would be completely unsurprised if there are others) I've unlocked a grand total of 23% of the game... so you're definitely getting your money's worth. There's a meaty demo that gives a good impression of what you can expect. Just don't get hooked and play it for too long, because as of writing there are still bugs with achievements that don't carry over.
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April 2026
I think the most important thing to say about this game is that the words really don't matter, in the same way knowing how to poker doesn't matter in Balatro. The longest word in my last run was 'Z2ALI6OAI'. The game did find a real word that somehow fit that, but I was just trying to meet the conditions my trinkets needed, and only found out afterward what word it fits (most of those letters had special conditions to let them act as a different letter). There are so many wildcards that there will almost always be a word for your craziest combos For reference of another run, my longest word was '♘♞♘♘C♛♛♕♞♗PE♝'. There is a word somewhere that fits into all those wildcards, there always is And it is very fun, with good strategy and variety, and has a lot of content and difficulty options (once you unlock the basic characters). And of course, I like looking back at the runs and laughing at the extremely cursed 'words' I produced But with all that said, they do intentionally hide a lot of information, with minimal descriptions that aren't always clear about what they're doing and why. It's pretty rare that you hit a scenario where it matters, and even rarer that you can't figure it out pretty quick, but it's a little annoying that they did this. For example, one of them is something like "if your word starts and ends with a different curse, x3 score", and you're left wondering if a blue-tiled 2 of hearts is a different curse from a red-tiled 5/4 of clubs, because they are both suited but are different suits different curses, and they're both numbers but are fractions considered a different curse from numbers, and is tile color a 'curse', and etc - and then when you don't get the multiplier, you're not even sure why (and I still don't know if numbers and fractions are considered different curses, so I can't tell you the answer to this one). That's my main gripe, but it doesn't usually get in the way
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April 2026
i'd really like it if the game gave a definition for each "played" word, because thats all i'm doing in the overlay: googling definitions. otherwise faultless.
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April 2026
You come because you think it's a word game, and it does start out that way, but then the game opens up and you slowly realize it's more of a Balatro-like where the most important thing is getting synergistic items. Knowing words won't help you here NEARLY as much as other word games, in fact, I don't know what most of the words I make actually mean, and an OP score is creating a 10 letter long mystery word of all wildcards that hit your synergies. Very weird game, but I'm enjoying it, and I do recommend it.
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April 2026
Finally, a game that answers the question "what if Grover from Sesame Street was a cult leader who sends you to the Void to play Boggle with Balatro jokers and custom tiles that make your words look like wingdings".
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Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't received 346 positive votes out of a total of 361 achieving a rating of 8.81.
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Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't was developed by Buried Things and published by Forklift Interactive.

Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't is not playable on MacOS.

Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't is not playable on Linux.

Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't is a single-player game.

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Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't
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