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Spell words, pick perks, score points, and survive until the end. Every round is different. How far can you make it?

Word Play is a casual, word game and spelling game developed and published by Game Maker's Toolkit.
Released on July 14th 2025 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 322 reviews of which 310 were positive and 12 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 7.01€ on Steam with a 10% discount.

The Steam community has classified Word Play into these genres:

Casual Word Game Spelling Roguelike Typing 2D Text-Based Colorful Family Friendly Relaxing Deckbuilding Singleplayer Score Attack Indie

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7+
  • Processor: Intel i5+
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750
  • Storage: 700 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Catalina
  • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core M
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 700 MB available space

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July 2025
Pros: Polished, satisfying, easy to play for short/medium bursts of time. Cons: Maybe I am spoiled by the cracked out feeling you get playing Balatro, but I was hoping Wordplay would deliver a bit more juice in terms of power escalation. The synergies feel muted and challenging to line up - perhaps it would benefit from a way to limit the perk pool or further manipulate the available modifiers. Summary: 7.5/10. Worth a buy at full price for fans of word games
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July 2025
The core gameplay is excellent and, yes, if you like word games, it's an easy recommend. Rather than glazing, I'll give some criticism: The sound and music isn't very polished. No disrespect to the composer, but it's mixed for foreground and not background, kinda bass-heavy, so when you turn it down you're left with just kick and snare noises which get irritating. Add the high-pitched GUI sounds and you're left with a cold, rather sterile soundscape. Obviously you can mute, but a good mix can work wonders. It really needs more characterful audio cues on events, special tiles, rare appearances, etc. The Balatro elements add lots of variety to runs, but I'd like to see better animations to make rares obvious and tempting when drafting (for example). These little things could add a modicum of dopamine to the power-up process. But really, it's not a game played for thrills, it's more of a Scrabble-like satisfaction. Whether you like long words, exploiting bonus tiles, or holding on to prefixes and suffixes, you can get the game to reward you for doing so and feel very pleased with yourself. That twenty-letter word achievement will be mine, one day. TLDR: It's an absorbing word game with an excellent gameplay loop that lets you deckbuild to suit your playstyle.
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July 2025
The best part about WordPlay is not creating the longest words or finding the highest (base) scoring words, but rather the moment where your build forces you to scour through until you find the perfect word. Finding a word that fulfills "x? for each R" and "x? for each E" and "x2 if word starts and ends with the same letter" and then seeing your score explode as you submit "renouncer" feels fantastic.
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July 2025
I am humbly requesting that you accept the word "fapping" I would've gotten easily 200 points if it was an option.
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July 2025
Balatro and Wordle/Scrabble had a baby and by the gods, it's beautiful Super smooth and clean interface, really cool mechanics and "Deck building" For the price, it's an absolute steal, hopefully comes to IOS/Android because this game would be perfect on the go
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Frequently Asked Questions

Word Play is currently priced at 7.01€ on Steam.

Word Play is currently available at a 10% discount. You can purchase it for 7.01€ on Steam.

Word Play received 310 positive votes out of a total of 322 achieving a rating of 8.81.
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Word Play was developed and published by Game Maker's Toolkit.

Word Play is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Word Play is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Word Play is not playable on Linux.

Word Play is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Word Play. Explore additional content available for Word Play on Steam.

Word Play does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Word Play does not support Steam Remote Play.

Word Play is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Word Play
-10% 7.79€ 7.01€
8.8
310
12
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Developer
Game Maker's Toolkit
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Game Maker's Toolkit
Release 14 Jul 2025
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