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Words of Yendor

83% positive of 30 Steam reviews

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by SandorHQ.

About the game

Words tell stories. Change one, and your story transforms. What if you wield words with surprising meanings from Ambrose Bierce’s 1906 classic, “The Devil's Dictionary”? In Words of Yendor, you’re an investigator forging a personalized story. Unique every run. Forever.

Tagged by players

Spelling
Typing
Word Game
Steampunk
Perma Death
Strategy RPG
Gothic
Turn-Based Strategy
Procedural Generation
Hand-drawn
Puzzle
RPG

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What players say

Recommended
Words of Yendor offers a fresh take on well-known word puzzles and places it in an intriguing steampunk world. The learning curve is definitely more steep than your average world puzzle, and the rougelike mechanics are sometimes unforgiving but it certainly makes winning a match more rewarding. It's a solid choice for someone looking for a more challenging word puzzle experience.
3.8 h played when written. 9 found it helpful.
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Recommended
A great combination of classic word games with some rogue-like elements, and I also really like the world-building and imagery. I'd never heard of Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" before, but the use of it adds real character to the game! On the downside, some of the mechanics could be a bit clearer - I didn't realise that you get free teleport-swaps in showdowns for completing words when I played the demo,…
14 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
There's just too much going on in this. Rather than having a single, refined word game to engage with, you instead end up with multiple (often confusing) mini games chained together. Few mechanics carry over between the mini games, and there is no tutorial to speak of. Every mechanic and mini game is just tossed in from the jump, and the help button simply adds more cognitive overhead by having you follow 10-15…
38 min played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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