Alphabetron

Ok, first things first, the soundtrack did not need to go this hard. I was vibing out the whole time. It's a shame there's only a few total songs because they just loop. I can definitely see how folks may grow tired of them over time, even though they are pretty great tracks. Music aside, the actual game is...a word search. I mean, that shouldn't really come as a shock to anyone. It just is what it is, but hey it is good at that. If you have a vague understanding of the english language and/or basic pattern recognition, you'll do fine. Not all word searches work the same, though. This is one one where words [i]can[/i] slightly overlap and words can be read in [i]either direction[/i]; so, as an example, you can find "WORDSEARCH" written as "HCRAESDROW" horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. I think it adds a slight challenge...as much challenge as a word search can be, anyways. At any rate, this was a neat time. It's got a good soundtrack, a reasonable number of levels, a fair price (especially on sale), and some achievements. My only real critiques are that I wish there were more songs, and they did repeat a lot of words throughout the levels. If they want to make more of thes…

Alphabetron - review [u]Recommendation[/u]: A good, fun word search game with a fairly large set of puzzles that gradually increase in size. [u]Critique[/u]: Alphabetron presents you with a classic word search: a rectangle of seemingly-random letters, and a list of words that are hidden in that rectangle. Each word can be found as a straight line of sequential letters, either horizontally (forward or backward), vertically (down or up), and diagonally (reading up/down on a 45-degree angle). The word list is good; each puzzle has words fit to a specific theme, usually a genre of fiction: spies, science-fiction, cyberpunk, etc. Your job is to find those words in the rectangle. The way you "find" a word in a classic word search is by circling the word, but that's much too finicky to do with a mouse. So instead here you "find" a word by clicking and dragging a selection across the letters that make each word. The only frustration I had in the whole game - and this is very minor - is that selecting diagonals was a little error-prone: the selection often tried to select the next vertical or horizontal letter rather than the diagonal I was moving the mouse to select. In general, the pu…

I haven't played a word-search game since I was a kid! This was a nice little refresher... especially since there were so many 80's-themed levels!

Love this game.

Nice aesthetics but nothing more than a simple word search game. Words get repetitive and the game lacks any real sense of progression.

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