One Word by Powgi is yet another crossword game from Lightwood, and while the one word per board focus may seem great for pick up and play, unfortunately I couldn’t say they felt that different from your typical crossword puzzle, especially when the boards vary wildly in size and thus, the difficulty of the puzzles is all over the place. It’s fine for...


One Word by Powgi
2018 Lightwood Games71Good
Playtime
BriefTypically 1 hour
Playable on
Available on
- $7.99
- $7.99
Game modes
- 2–4 players
Details
- Launch
- December 18, 2018
- Developer
- Lightwood Games
- Publisher
- Lightwood Games
- Themes
- Genres
Overview
The word search puzzle with a difference - there's only one word to find! Complete each series of puzzles to reveal the words that complete a quote.
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Reception
Lightwood Games likes to take classic puzzle formats and switch them around, One Word by POWGI is a perfect example. Instead of looking for a group of words within a grid of letters, you must decipher a quote or phrase and then find a single missing word within a jumbled up grid made up of only that words letters. As this is the case, and it isn’t going...
Although it has a different take on word search puzzles, this game quickly gets repetitive to a point where your eyes won’t like you anymore.
As a port of a mobile game, Lightwood Games have done a good job of bringing their One Word by POWGI game to PS4. It works flawlessly on consoles. For those desperate to play word puzzles on their PS4, this (and POWGI’s other titles) are the only real options. The “written for a lift” music, forgettable nature of some of the quotes and unnecessarily...

