Writer's Rush

Writer's Rush

Frogstorm · January 22, 2024 · Simulation, Casual, Interactive Fiction, Point & Click, Indie

Buy the Writer's Rush key for Steam from Kinguin at $4.16 — the cheapest of 2 stores we compare.

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Mostly Positive76% · 429 📉 Recent reviews down 68%1playing now
Best price 20 Fair price
$4.16-31%
lowest tracked $2.39
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Standard Edition · Steam
$5.99
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Standard Edition · Steam
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Writer's Rush price by region

Writer's Rush costs £2.73 in the United Kingdom, €3.14 in Europe (EUR), $3.99 in Georgia (USD), $4.16 in the United States, CA$7.79 in Canada, A$8.79 in Australia, NZ$8.99 in New Zealand, zł17.55 in Poland and R$20.49 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Writer's Rush offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £2.73 −45% £4.99 £2.73 2
Europe (EUR) €3.14 −47% €5.89 €3.14 2
Georgia (USD) $3.99 $3.99 $4.16 2
United Statesyour region $4.16 −31% $5.99 $4.16 2
Canada CA$7.79 CA$7.79 — 1
Australia A$8.79 A$8.79 — 1
New Zealand NZ$8.99 NZ$8.99 — 1
Poland zł17.55 −36% zł27.50 zł17.55 2
Brazil R$20.49 R$20.49 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Writer's Rush

Writer's Rush is a writer life simulator where you compete with other authors for the title of the world's greatest writer. Craft articles, books, scripts, and fanfics. Complete publisher contracts, unlock new skills, and level up your literary talents.

Writer's Rush — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Writer's Rush presents a unique writing-focused management sim with a variety of mini-games for different publication types, but players are divided on whether the unrealistic timelines and repetitive gameplay justify the experience. Common complaints center on the absurdly long writing timeframes (24 weeks per article), low payment rewards, and arbitrary mini-game answers that feel disconnected from real writing, with several players finding it tedious rather than relaxing.

Not recommended Jul 25, 2026
Undisclosed AI usage
12 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 15, 2026
Heavy use of AI for everything, visuals and the text. Takes 24 weeks to write one article? I'm a writer and I was excited for this game but it's clear whoever made this doesn't know anything about writing.
12 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 1, 2026
I just bought the game. Half an hour in it. Dang it. This game is not relaxing at all. I am a writter by myself, but 24 weeks to write an aritcle? WTH! Why so much? 1-2 weeks, maybe 3. For fan fic I undestand 4-8 weeks. Beside that, payments are very small. I mean, it s not a realistic game and dev for sure are not writters, but fun idea tho. I will play this 2-3 hours and I will come back with a review. For now.. the game is 5 out of 10 for me.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 7, 2026
Bit of a chore. Refunded.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 5, 2026
Pretty unique concept, and it works well enough. Yes, requiring several months to write one article is ridiculous by real-life standards, but it's also a game, suspend your disbelief a little. Anyway, there are many different types of publications you can write, which offer different mini games. If you replayed it a lot, it would probably get repetitive, but this certainly works for a few playthroughs. Are the mini games ideal? Perhaps not. Sometimes the answers seem arbitrary. They certainly are somewhat arbitrary for the books. I highly recommend doing research whenever possible because it seems to make a big difference, even when it doesn't actually give you useful hints. That said, the game does seem absurdly easy, at least in the career mode. It crashed on me a few times for reasons I can't discern, but I didn't lose much, and otherwise it worked perfectly fine, so that's annoying but not catastrophic. Overall, I'd say it's a nice game.
Recommended Jun 26, 2026
A very strange kind of management sim, but one that I've been enamored by.

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