Developer posts and news about this game.
VERSION 2.5: NEW CHARACTER: Added Black Phantom as an unlockable character. Black Phantom, the western train bandit, loads her revolver with bullets over time. During her ability, she spins the chamber and shoots at the Enemy Book, instantly completing the round if the gun fires!
VERSION 2.4.1: CHANGES: Set max health to 3 (down from 5) and replaced the health icons. BUG FIXES: Fixed a bug that made the Citrine gem not give any points when used. Fixed a bug that caused music to not stop when unchecking it in the options. COMING SOON: Added the Black Phant
VERSION 2.4: NEW GAME MODE: Added “Hidden Word” as a game mode. Try to guess the hidden word before time runs out to open a Chest. Chests contain Perks which will unlock after you find them. NEW FEATURES: Added a “Longest word” bonus. Added icons for each game mode in the menu. H
VERSION 2.3: PERK CHANGES: Removed the bonuses for words related to “kindness” for Benevolent, words related to “Death” for Gravemarked, and words related to “Music” for Harmonic. Benevolent now gives you an extra Gem every time an Enemy Book attacks you. Gravemarked now gives yo
VERSION 2.2: NEW FEATURES: The selected timer color now saves. PERK CHANGES: Unpredictable now makes each vowel in a submitted word worth 0-5 points, up from 0-3. GAMEPLAY CHANGES: Fresh words now give a 2x bonus, up from 1.5x. Instantly completing a round, or “round skipping,” n
VERSION 2.1: NEW FEATURES: English, French, Spanish, and Italian dictionaries are now available in Options. This does not translate the entire game, it only changes the language of words you can use during a run. The perks Benevolent, Gravemarked, Harmonic, and Kaleidoscopic have
VERSION 2.0: NEW FEATURES: Dimensions are now 800x500 pixels. Added menu and in-game designs to fill the extra space. Timer bar color is now customizable in Options. People have been asking for the game to not be a square. GAMEPLAY CHANGES: Shuffle mode is now easier, with each w
VERSION 1.9: NEW FEATURES: Added the Lovesick Tragedy DLC. Added icons for exiting the game and visiting the Steam page. Added a new Steam achievement. BUG FIXES: Fixed a bug that caused the word length to be set to 2 letters in a Local Battle. OTHER: Replaced the Main Menu song.
VERSION 1.8: NEW FEATURES: Added Local Battle as a gamemode! Play 1v1 against a friend locally. This mode supports the use of controllers. Added the Romeo Montague character icon, Juliet Capulet character icon, and Final Act perk icon to the Loadout screen. These are locked and w
Bug fixes.
NEW ACHIEVEMENTS: Verbal Beast: Reach round 9 with Cthulhu. Using Your Head: Reach round 9 with Headless Horseman. All Luck, No Skill: Reach round 7 in Shuffle mode. Sweet 15: Submit a 15-letter word. NEW FEATURES: Added Citrine gem. This gem resets the word length to 3. You can
PERK CHANGES: Venturesome now gives a 1 / 10,000 chance to complete all 9 rounds instantly, instead of just completing the current round. UI CHANGES: Replaced the Discord button with a Credits button. Added “Local Battle” to gamemodes. Local multiplayer is not available yet, but
Bug fixes.
Happy Halloween! NEW CHARACTER: Added Headless Horseman as a playable character. The Headless Horseman turns disabled letters into Flaming letters. With certain perks and a good strategy, this power has incredible potential. PERK CHANGES: Incombustible now prevents any harm from
Bug fixes.
PERK CHANGES: Xerothermic now gives 500 points (up from 50). Kaleiscopic now gives 9x points (up from 4x). Yeah, this might be overkill, but at least these perks aren’t completely useless anymore! BUG FIXES: Fixed an issue that caused the Spinel gem to upgrade gold letters. Fixed
NEW FEATURES: Added “Poisoned” status effect. With only 5 status effects (and most of them only appearing after round 3), some early-round books did the same things, and the late-round books felt repetitive. The addition of Poisoned brings new challenges and makes every book uniq
BALANCE CHANGES: - Added "Repetitive word" and "Overused word" penalties for using a word too often. BUG FIXES: - Fixed a bug where the music wouldn't turn off after deselecting it in Options.
UPDATE 1.1: - Added Gems! - Added new "Shuffle" gamemode. - Slightly reworked the Tutorial. - Steam Achievements should work now.