Letterlike Game Reviews

Super fun!. I love the combination of the classic rouguelike experience combined with the long term progressions with the gems. Having lots of fun with the game!

If Scrabble and Balatro had a baby. A fun little Indy roguelite that feels very similar to balatro but for word building instead of poker. It doesn’t have the polish of larger studio games, but that just adds to its charm. I think there is room for continued growth and I look forward to seeing what the dev does with updates and feedback.

Amazing game!. This game is super addictive and awesome

On Way to Greatness!!. I've been playing this game for about an hour and i'm in love with the concept! I really pile the upgrade system where they're not "permanent", as I find this to be very forgiving and allow for different tactics unlike other games. However, I think some of the "finals" can be unforgiving and the jump from 2-3k points to 10k to be a little much early game. On its way!!

Super fun game!!. Just got the game Friday and it’s already become my go to game when I have free time and my phone. Super easy to get started playing but the difficulty is definitely there once you get goin. Can’t recommend it enough!

Fun, but too easy. This is a clever word game. My only issue is that it is too easy. After unlocking one or two extra letters and one item slot I’ve cleared every run (including the extra bonus round). There is a rerun+ version that’s tougher, but you can’t earn gems on those runs so you can’t make progress this way.

Challenging game you can play through the day. Nicely challenging but there are many ways to stack buffs to get a win! Definitely a great game to play in short bursts through the day

Very fun and addictive word game with no ads or micro-transactions! Exactly what I was looking for!. I’ve been having a lot of fun with this game since I downloaded it today. It’s rare you get a game that manages to be addictive without a bunch of predatory ads and micro-transactions trying to profit off that addictiveness! It’s been wonderful to play while I’m sick at home :)

Warning. you will get addicted. clever, well made game.

Very addictive. Beautiful word game.Love it

My new favorite game. This is fun and addictive! It’s become my new obsession. Makes you think and strategize, can’t stop playing this

Wish there was an option to disable trash talk. The AI characters in this game that you “play against” keep up a steady stream of trash talk, and it’s just annoying. Every time you start a game, these “opponents” tell you to “get used to losing,” and if you do win, you get some equally snarky comment like, “It won’t happen again.” It turns a fun time waster into another unpleasant online interaction, and I get enough of that every day.

Addictive and Fun, HIGHLY RECOMMEND!. I have nothing but praises for the developer and the game. This game is what would happen if Balatro and Scrabble had a baby. With each run different from your last through randomly generated seeds, it makes each run truly unique. The only regret you’ll have with purchasing this beautiful masterpiece is that it’ll consume your free time and social life 😂. Try the demo if you’re on the fence but I encourage you to buy it. You seriously won’t regret a dime!

You can never really win or accomplish anything. I love word games especially new and thought out ones, and I like this one except it pisses me off when I’m on a roll and then I get two words to make 33000 points. That’s not even possible unless you have all the tile slots filled and then maybe, maybe you’ll have a chance. It’s just rigged to a point you can’t go any further no matter what and I really don’t see the purpose of “playing against someone else”. The only time they’re relevant is at the end of the round, you don’t even know what the other “player” is doing to know how to compete against them. You’re just playing against the score and letters they give you. Another thing that’s upsetting is I’ll trade in 2 o’s and a T and I’ll get two o’s and an a. Like come on are you even trying to be random?

Fantastic Indy Roughelike. Roguelike is a favorite Indy game genre of mine, and I always love seeing something new pop up. This one ticks all the boxes - and it's almost TOO hard, but that's what I love about Roguelike. I've played maybe 25 games and have yet to beat it. I'm excited to see how the game evolves. Hats off to you Ronald!

Pleasantly surprised. I really like this word game. It’s a good challenge.

Fun word game!. It’s Balatro meets scrabble! It’s a fun concept and well executed.

Fun game. Perfect game with a mix of puzzle and forming words, good developer - looking forward to seeing the game grow even more

Awesome game!. I am really enjoying this game right now! I’ve sunk a lot of hours into it already. If your a fan of word games you’ll like this a lot. Hats off to the developer!

Balatro meets Scrabble. It’s an excellent combination.

Excellent. This is a very good word game, maybe the best in the App Store. There is another similar game but I think this game is slightly better and is less expensive. Nice Job!

Love this game - clever twist on format. Well thought out, fun to play, lots of replayability. Great purchase.

Shallow, needs balancing. Scrabble meets Balatro. A promising idea, but falls short of its inspiration. Here are some of the issues I think need addressing: 1. No deck-building mechanics. You start with the standard scrabble bag and you keep it the entire run. A method to obtain more blanks and “stack the deck” in your favor is an obvious solution, but I admit this is tougher to implement with scrabble. I know there are other starter bags but I’ve yet to unlock one for reasons I’ll discuss later. 2. Some of the modifiers (Jokers) are essentially not viable due to boss mechanics. Every time I’ve tried to use a +LS/discard build, I’ve inevitably run into a boss that takes all of your discards (and 2 words on top of that??) which is an instant loss. There is no way to avoid this except to get lucky. 3. It is impossible to win when you first start. The game’s roguelike progression is locked behind the acquisition of gems, which you acquire by clearing rounds. You will be very lucky to get 5 in a game at the start and the first upgrade to unlock another (Joker) slot costs 25. I do not think it is mathematically possible to beat the lowest difficulty out of the gate. This is a major design flaw. 4. Continuing from 3, the game is harder and slower than balatro (much more thinking required) but the grind is longer and less rewarding. When I spend 30 minutes on a run that ends not even halfway to a win and I’m rewarded with 5 gems, I do not feel good. You should be given the tools to win from the start (given sufficient skill), and grinding should serve to expand mechanics and strategies rather than allow you to finally win on the lowest difficulty by incrementing numbers.

Scrabble meets Slay the Spire. Really fun mobile game

Super fun evolution of scrabble!. Having a grand ol’ time playing this gem. My partner and I love scrabble in all its variations so it’s great to see one that combines roguelike mechanics. Clear inspirations from Balatro but it’s a good thing, since the mechanics work so well with scrabble and its inherent point system. Kindly received a code from the dev to give it a try but buying a copy for my partner for Xmas to support em.

Ronald,. Great game. Please make an iPad version!!! Thank you

Of course you can win!. First of all LOL at the reviewer that is triggered by the “opponent” taunting comments. You must be the kid everyone picked on in school. Next, to the review claiming you can never really win. Not true. I’m currently on new game +6 scoring 9 billion with 3 letter words with no end in sight as I’m leveling up 2 WS multipliers every round. Wish we had Game Center leaderboards as I’d be #1 and able to prove it. Great game.

Scrabble meets roguelike, a perfect combination!. I’ve always been a fan of Scrabble and roguelikes, but never really had anyone to play Scarbble with. This game scratches that itch and is super fun and easy to understand! Keep up the great work!

Surprisingly addicting!. If you enjoyed Balataro this hits the same spot. Love the rogue-like mechanics and progression system. Such a great value for how cheap it is.

My new favorite game!!!. It’s like balatro and words with friends combined! Already have sunk hours into it and I know I’m going to sink so much more. Wonderfully addicting game!

Lovely Game with addictive gameplay. Really fun game, makes you rack your brain for words to come up with. Has a cool game loop with a sweet upgrade system and shop to buy stuff. It’s challenging and makes you think which is a good thing. Also fun for short sessions if you want something to kill a little time vs doom scrolling on social media. Looking forward to see what the updates do for the game later on. Def Plan on playing it a lot more. I’ve been struggling towards the final round to hit the word score. But practice makes perfect ha! Definitely recommend it!

Love Balatro and words? You will LOVE this game.. Word scrambling + roguelike at just the right amount to reward and frustrate. You’ll need to strategize when to go for diamonds or when to help your score, so you’ll be sucked in for a good while!

Wonderful!. If you like games like Balatro, you’ll like this. If you like word games too you’ll love it!

Great word game. The game is so much fun. The developer continues to update the game with new challenges and different ways to improve your word scores. Highly recommended!

Quite Fun. I really all enjoying this word game quite a bit thus far. Having the buffs and multipliers adds an extra level of challenge and fun to the classic word game I think. I got pretty far in one play-through. Im not sure that I fully understand the shop, though. I buy the diamonds sometimes. But I don’t particularly understand what they are being used for or going towards? If I buy enough am I then able to open up some of the locked slots for the special powers? I hope that’s what is going on? I wish that there was a little more explanation about the shop please. Thank you. Overall, though, I’m extremely happy with my purchase and I believe I’ll be playing this title a lot. As an avid word game enthusiast this game ranks quite high up among the greats in my opinion. Many thanks to the developer for creating and offering such an enjoyable experience and God bless. iPhone 13 Pro Max/ iOS 18.1.1 Reply to Developer Response: Thank you so much for getting back to me (so quickly too) and letting me know how to use the diamonds that I buy. I appreciate that so very much. And just, again, thank you so much for creating and offering one of the best word games I’ve ever played. ❤️ I haven’t had this much fun in a word game in forever. It’s nice to have a different approach, a unique one at that, and challenge to this genre of games. Thanks a bunch!

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Your next addiction. Great game, and only getting better with updates. Have beaten the final boss a couple times now and am absolutely hooked. Put many hours into the game in only a few days.

Great Fun!. If you like the hugely popular game Ballartro you will like this! Developer is active and constant updates coming in!

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Good!. Love it! But I hope you guys add a feature to show what a word means when it scores just so there’s a way to learn new words while playing.

Awesome. Great game. Addicting

Can’t Recommend Enough!. Superb game - endlessly enjoyable. Really like the subtle progression of the Special Shop, and the portrait format. If this game added haptic feedback, it would really be the cherry on top. But regardless, this is a top tier game! Definitely worth the money.

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A symphony of fun meets word battles, wrapped in simplicity. TL,DR: Buy it! It’s good. Paid for it, while being skeptical- Instant Love ❤️ Speaking as a game designer myself in VR and a gamer. I’ve been ineffectual with the traditional spelling games. I’ve played majority of them since spell tower, wordsmyth, well word, knot words, letter press, word+ (the Disney word battler game) I can go on.. Unfortunately, they pushed me away with their (locked) constraints of not allowing me to use more words via lack of how the mechanics were designed, which in my opinion, negated avenues of how.. us the player.. *Can express* how we’d like to approach a given situation presented by the challenge. Avenues can only be present, if it was designed into the mechanics. And for that, the base mechanic (holding the observable constraints) would also have subset mechanics designed within, to allow the player.. various approaches of how they’d like to express their interaction onto the given moment, and in return… the player feels like they earned the opportunity (which they did) to expand past the base constraints, because they took the time to understand the mechanics. This to me, is where Letterlike shines. For me, it opens up the window.. I see dimensions outside.. soo many possibilities/permutation and emergence with this one. Once I grasp the mechanics, I envision me getting creative and performing combos, almost akin to engine deck builders like: Race for the Galaxy, Dominion, Ascension, Hero Realms, (which I am a huge fan & gamer of) but here, instead of spells & space ships.. Lexicon is the interactivity of the arena. Which is not only fun because how it’s expressed in the brilliant design of this game, but simultaneously… it exercises our verbal communication for when we engage our fellow human. Win/Win ❤️ From a gameplay perspective.. This sparks such huge potential in the word genre. I played balatro, I get the charm of it.. but it never infected me, the way it has so many… I guess I’m not into poker. But I immediately grasped its “addictive quality” just from coming out the mechanics. But it couldn’t affect me as much because the theme is poker, and I don’t have interest in poker. But when Letterlike, replacing poker with letters and words, now I’m infected the way balatro has done to many. Dear Dev.. Please put up some YouTube videos and get more exposure (on the gameplay).. I checked YouTube and found none when I searched: “Letterlike iOS Review” “Letterlike gameplay” the price of the game is small, so I took a chance, but unfortunately, majority won’t, so please get some gameplay footage out there. A Summary Breakdown of this beautiful Orchestra: • easy to pick up & play game, carries strong “get you addicted” qualities. • Beautiful UI very fluid and responsive - snappy! • catchy and wonderful soundtrack • Trash talking Ai (I liiike it!) I saw someone complain about it over on iOS review, but I like it. • Elegant UX, simplistic.. not overly done: (tap this - to do that, then go here, and tap that) none of that here! Simplicity which facilitates.. play anywhere, no concentric efforts with UX - just the concentric challenge of mechanics, letters & words (which is what you are here for). Dear dev.. You have a banga here, let it bake some more within the customers, supporters, and hopefully we’ll get more expansions after sometime being out in the wild.

Shallow, needs balancing. Scrabble meets Balatro. A promising idea, but falls short of its inspiration. Here are some of the issues I think need addressing: 1. No deck-building mechanics. You start with the standard scrabble bag and you keep it the entire run. A method to obtain more blanks and “stack the deck” in your favor is an obvious solution, but I admit this is tougher to implement with scrabble. I know there are other starter bags but I’ve yet to unlock one for reasons I’ll discuss later. 2. Some of the modifiers (Jokers) are essentially not viable due to boss mechanics. Every time I’ve tried to use a +LS/discard build, I’ve inevitably run into a boss that takes all of your discards (and 2 words on top of that??) which is an instant loss. There is no way to avoid this except to get lucky. 3. It is impossible to win when you first start. The game’s roguelike progression is locked behind the acquisition of gems, which you acquire by clearing rounds. You will be very lucky to get 5 in a game at the start and the first upgrade to unlock another (Joker) slot costs 25. I do not think it is mathematically possible to beat the lowest difficulty out of the gate. This is a major design flaw. 4. Continuing from 3, the game is harder and slower than balatro (much more thinking required) but the grind is longer and less rewarding. When I spend 30 minutes on a run that ends not even halfway to a win and I’m rewarded with 5 gems, I do not feel good. You should be given the tools to win from the start (given sufficient skill), and grinding should serve to expand mechanics and strategies rather than allow you to finally win on the lowest difficulty by incrementing numbers.

Super fun evolution of scrabble!. Having a grand ol’ time playing this gem. My partner and I love scrabble in all its variations so it’s great to see one that combines roguelike mechanics. Clear inspirations from Balatro but it’s a good thing, since the mechanics work so well with scrabble and its inherent point system. Kindly received a code from the dev to give it a try but buying a copy for my partner for Xmas to support em.

Very addictive. Beautiful word game.Love it

You can never really win or accomplish anything. I love word games especially new and thought out ones, and I like this one except it pisses me off when I’m on a roll and then I get two words to make 33000 points. That’s not even possible unless you have all the tile slots filled and then maybe, maybe you’ll have a chance. It’s just rigged to a point you can’t go any further no matter what and I really don’t see the purpose of “playing against someone else”. The only time they’re relevant is at the end of the round, you don’t even know what the other “player” is doing to know how to compete against them. You’re just playing against the score and letters they give you. Another thing that’s upsetting is I’ll trade in 2 o’s and a T and I’ll get two o’s and an a. Like come on are you even trying to be random?