From letters to lunacy, Cursed Words is a roguelike chasing ever-stronger synergies. Start with simple words like BUY or THIS or GAME, then use game-altering combos to break the rules. Before long you’ll be ¼♖♙K5XNG the ⅗H♗4 out of these 83VK??7?!
The trailer's line of "the word's don't matter, it's all about the score" is pretty accurate; the game focuses a lot more on the roguelite Balatro-esque synergies than the words themselves. It's a good roguelite game, but only an okay word game at best compared to something like Pronoun Palace
Never thought I would have learned the basics of Chess from a word game, B?T H12£ WE ?₹5
its got the sauce
Awesome game. It's Balatro meets Bookworm. It leans ever so slightly in the Balatro direction over Bookworm, but Bookworm is one of my all-time greats - this scratches myitch. I only have one minor criticism which is that there wild letters are so common that sometimes you are just randomly clicking around to try and make up whatever word matches without...
It's good. I've played a couple of other "balatro but words" games, but they don't have The Juice, so I dropped them early on.
This game has enough crazy items, builds and characters to keep you busy for a good long while.
I may be done with it after 70 hours, so it doesn't have the staying power of Balatro (which I 100%ed after like 1600 hours), but...
