The Cursed Words Open Playtest is underway, and you’re welcome to join in whenever you like. If you enjoy games where language bends, tiles mutate and every run becomes its own unpredictable experiment, this is the perfect moment to try it out and help shape the game as it grows.
Whether you enjoy clever word builds, explosive synergies or discovering strange new ways to break the rules, the ongoing Playtest gives you a chance to explore all of that and share your thoughts with us.
👉 If you decide to join, we’d love to hear what you think. Your impressions, ideas and discoveries help us refine the experience and guide future updates.
📚 What is Cursed Words?
Cursed Words begins as a simple word game with familiar tiles like BUY or GAME. Then it quickly slips into lunacy as your grid fills with numbers, chess pieces, shiny pink score bombs and other symbols that twist the rules of language.
You build powerful synergies using Stamps and Stickers, face tricky boss encounters and push your score higher with every stage. A normal run features five stages, each one with two encounters and a boss. Beat Stage 5 to win the run, then take on special Challenges and Crown difficulty tiers that redefine the rules and push your creativity.
Each run is shaped by four pillars: your Character, your Sticker upgrades, your Stamp loadout and the consumable Tiles you bring into each fight. Every attempt becomes its own cursed experiment.
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🎮 Open Playtest available now until December 16
For the first time - Cursed Words is available for anyone to play! You can join instantly by pressing the green Playtest button on the store page. This build includes a sizable slice of the core game and plenty of opportunities to create broken, hilarious, and wildly powerful combinations.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856460/Cursed_Words/
🧩 What’s inside this Playtest
👤 Four full Characters to experiment with
Each one comes with a unique Pin that branches into different upgrade paths after every boss. They dramatically change how your runs evolve.
🔡 A variety of Tile types
- This version includes:
- Red and Blue tiles
- Void tiles with negative starting values
- Shiny pink tiles with a strong base score
- Number tiles
- Chess piece tiles
- More tile types and more characters will arrive in future updates.
👑 Crown challenge tier
Each character features Crown difficulty levels that raise score targets, increase shop prices and introduce tougher decisions.
🗺️ Three unique Quests available in this Playtest
Each Quest comes with custom parameters and unlockable rewards that add new twists to the way you play.
✨ Over 150 Stamps and Stickers
Use Stamps to shape your grids and Stickers to distort the rules of language. Mix them to create wild synergies, reach impossible scores and discover cursed interactions that only this game can offer.
🚀 Dive in Now!
Play, experiment, break the rules and tell us what you discover. Your feedback will help us shape future characters, challenges, tile types and the path forward for Cursed Words.
Have fun and stay cursed!
