Wordlike - Word Roguelike

Roadtrip Games

About this game

Wordlike is a word-based, roguelike deckbuilder! Make words, tune your bag of letters, and collect powerful items to beat challenging levels.

It combines the strategy and replayability of roguelike deckbuilders with the challenge and nostalgia of classic word games. If you've played Balatro, it's like Balatro with words.

Wordlike is made up of four boards, each with several levels—your goal is to beat these levels by making words. As the level target scores climb, you'll need to pick up Knick Knacks that boost your score and direct your strategy.

You'll also encounter unique, game-changing events that bolster your run, forcing you to evaluate tradeoffs, swap items, and more.

Highlights
• Endlessly Replayable: Every board is procedurally generated, so you'll constantly encounter new items, events, and bosses!
• Unique Knick Knacks: Pick up Knick Knacks at the shop between levels. Create word-based synergies based on parts of speech, letters, and more.
• Powerful Tile Enhancements: Strengthen your bag of letters with fun effects that boost their Base Points and Multipliers
• Challenging bosses: Face a variety of bosses that force you to make words without certain letters, of a certain length, or ones you've never made before.
• Unfiltered dictionary: Make words you can't say at grandma's house. Slang and abbreviations are fair game!
• Offline Play: Play the entire game on the go, no internet connection necessary.

Ratings and reviews

I'm enjoying it quite a bit! A lot of the mechanics are 1:1 analogues to Balatro (items that gradually gain mult throughout your run, etc) and it works super well. There seems to be a bigger emphasis on single-use consumables which I think is fun and keeps you mixing things up. My one critique is that the game is kind of lacking in aesthetic and sound design. It feels sterile, almost like I'm playing the NYT Mini crossword. I wish it sounded & looked a little more tactile!

Is it a sin to say I like this better than Balatro? Because I do. I even like it better than the other Word-Balatro games out there (Letterlike and Wordatro--which are both amazing games as well). I have one Quality of Life suggestion, and that would be an option to slow down the points and multiplier scoring.

I've been addicted to this game, it's got a really solid gameplay loop and feels satisfying to play. I just need more modes/challenges now!

What’s new

Wordlike 1.8.1 introduces new Knick Knacks and more!

New Knick Knacks
- Metronome: Gains +3 mult per consecutive word of different length. Keep switching up word lengths!
- Grappling Hook: Gains x1 mult when the word is longer than the previous word.

Bug fixes
- Dumbbell accumulated mult still applies when you play a word with blanks
- Anchor mult doesn't increment twice
- Joker copies accumulated mult on Houseplant
- Game Center access point appears on Main Menu after a win