Wordsmith: Wordle Roguelike
The classic game of Wordle with a twist!
Try to guess the target word. Yellow squares indicate that the letter is in the word, but not at that column, green means it's the right letter in the right column, and grey means it's not in the word at all.
Select modifications to make your runs more interesting, and each round increases the length of the word you have to guess by one.
Every two words, you pick a modification. Between rounds, you can select one modification to keep.
You can also buy abilities to help you on your run - these persist between rounds.
First prototype, let me know what you think! If you find any bugs or words you think are unfair to guess, let me know and I'll fix it. Thanks for playing!
Development log
- add mobile version5 hours ago
- ability cost tweak7 hours ago
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
i won with 69 points
nice
I found that the game became extremely easy with the strategy of just guessing two words with minimal overlap, and then just using hints. Rounds were profitable enough to buy more than enough hints, and the hints were usually consistent enough that they solved it within 4 guesses.
It was fun to figure out, and playing with the "no word reuse" modifier definitely helped the late game feel fun, trying to optimize my word usage rather than using the same handful of words. That being said, the hint power up is extremely overpowered, especially in comparison to other power ups.
Thanks for the feedback! I was only able to playtest it myself, and I've played so much wordle I don't know what the average person's skill at the game is lol. I specifically kept hints cheap because (1) they don't actually give you more info about the word (2) it's frustrating when you can't think of any words, especially for 5+ letter words which wordlers aren't used to guessing. I'll tweak the price though, they're definitely OP right now.
Fun concept. It was simple, familiar, yet interesting with good twists. It just lacks some joker cards!
Thank you!