Paperback Vol. 2
Fowers Games · 2022 · Casual, Strategy, Tabletop, Word Game, Spelling
PC
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About Paperback Vol. 2
Paperback the game is back! Paige Turner has been cranking out novels of all genres and has a new set of tricks. Follow her journey to become a bestselling author!
Paperback, the deckbuilding word game fuses smart wordsmithing with clever combos. Based on the bestselling card game, it returns with Vol 2! Try out the new cards, new modes and new art. The advanced computer players can challenge the best players or work alongside you in cooperative mode.
Cooperative mode - play with friends even play alongside the AI
New massive card set - as you play, you’ll unlock new cards and abilities.
Advanced AI - can find the best words faster and challenge the best players.
New Art and interface
New mini-expansions - spacebar, dyslexic and alternate starting wilds.
New kitchy novels to finish!
Paperback, the deckbuilding word game fuses smart wordsmithing with clever combos. Based on the bestselling card game, it returns with Vol 2! Try out the new cards, new modes and new art. The advanced computer players can challenge the best players or work alongside you in cooperative mode.
Cooperative mode - play with friends even play alongside the AI
New massive card set - as you play, you’ll unlock new cards and abilities.
Advanced AI - can find the best words faster and challenge the best players.
New Art and interface
New mini-expansions - spacebar, dyslexic and alternate starting wilds.
New kitchy novels to finish!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players love Paperback as an engaging word-building deck game with excellent longevity and replayability, praising its solid AI implementation and faithful digital adaptation of the board game. The main complaint centers on the dictionary's inconsistent word recognition, which rejects common words like "pawn" and "bling" while accepting obscure or archaic terms, frustrating players and breaking immersion. Some players also wish for longer gameplay sessions, with suggestions to refresh card piles rather than ending the game when supplies run out.
No 10 year anniversary content sadly.
Paperback remains my favorite word game of all time. The dictionaries on both this and the original have some problems.
i've played this game more on Android than on Steam (on Linux, btw), so have somewhere approaching 100 hours in it, and that's not including the time spent playing the physical board game. Of all of the games in this franchise i own (Paperback, Hardback, Paperback Adventures, Typewriter, and Word Domination), Paperback is the one which keeps me coming... well... _back_. This is a commendable adaptation of the board game. The only thing which annoys me greatly about it is the dictionary. It doesn't know words like "pawn" and "bling" but will gladly let you spell "muggle". If you tell it to find a word for you, it digs up what, to my eyes, are essentially random combinations of letters - words so obscure as to be extinct, and yet "pawn" and "bling" are not allowed. (Those are only two examples of many, but those stick out because they've repeatedly been rejected while playing.) Three feature wishes for an already enjoyable title: - Add a "show me the definition" button because, frankly, i don't believe half of the words the "Find Word" feature comes up with. - Add a local dictionary or an option for players to agree "yes, this is a word" (especially in solo mode - my sole (as it …
I am so addicted to this game. I just wish the piles wouldn't run out as quickly as they do; maybe there could be an adjustment to the game that when a pile is about to be cleared (not talking about the wild piles but the normal piles of cards with points used to form words), it could refill back with the original rotation of cards for that pile. That way I could play longer. That's not a negative--That's just letting you know that I don't like it when games end due to an empty pick pile ;-) That being said, thanks for offering an online version of this game :)
I would so much rather be playing Hardback.
Excellent deck-building game. Great adaptation. AI is decent in the single-player option. (I had incorrectly reviewed earlier that the AI option wasn't available. I was looking in the "Online" options but should have rather checked the "New Game" options. That out of the way, I could play the game with the AI and the game was a hit for me!)
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