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Highrise Heroes: Word Challenge

89% positive of 93 Steam reviews

Released: 2016
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by Fallen Tree Games Ltd.

About the game

A towering word-game and mystery-story mash-up!

Tagged by players

Word Game
Strategy
Adventure
Logic
Story Rich
Puzzle

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Very Positive

What players say

Recommended
This is a fantastic word game. One of the best I've ever encountered. What makes it great? The full package. It's a good boggle type game that also happens to have a very fun story (written by an actual young adult fiction writer) and a nice overall presentation. And, it's obvious that the developer set out to make a good game, not just another lame clone with minor variations. In all honesty, I was expecting the…
46 h played when written. 82 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Highrise Heroes is a boggle-style word building game where you match adjacent tiles to make the best word possible, triggering various score bonuses and explosions based on the strategy you went for. Whilst a story may seem like an unlikely addition to this type of game, it does actually have an element of mystery and discovery as you try to figure out what exactly went down in this bizarre skyscraper. In between…
17 h played when written. 23 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
A good game in theory, but halfway through the mechanics and score requirements for 3 stars become obnoxious, leading to essentially just having to retry a level a million times until you got good letter RNG to form long words right off the bat. At that point it becomes less skill-based and more reliant on trial & error. After retrying a level for a good 45 minutes to try to get a good word off the bat to even have…
9.2 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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