sWORD MASTER

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"sWORD MASTER" is what looks like a mobile app in the wrong store. It's a basic word puzzle game, essentially just a ripoff of the tabletop game, Boggle. You're presented with a 4x4 grid of 16 letters and must create words from adjacent letters. Just like Boggle, longer words and words with less commonly used letters generate a higher score. The "gimmick" is that your score then "damages" an enemy, who in turn will make a word that damages you in return. This is incredibly shallow as far as games go, the whole thing might as well have been done in a web browser. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed do…

A simple word finder with basic mechanics and a confusing point system. It does the job well with its core features but it can definitely benefit from PvP and offering a variety of US dictionaries to pick from. I could never figure out how the points were calculated, 2 word combos almost always score more than 4-5 word combos for example. It has a couple of minor bugs and doesn't recognize certain words but it is hard to complain when the price is just 99c.

I mean it's fine as a spelling game I suppose but idk who would really be interested in such a game. Very boring for me plus there was very little explanation for anything (which to be fair everything is very simple to understand but there is barely anything to do in the game so a simple explanation or description anywhere would go a long way). Plus the achievements were terribly annoying and tedious.

Quite good word game, which supports also few other languages than English, which is quite unique. 7/10. At first, I found it a bit boring, but it has 300+ achievements, ca. half by passing the 25 levels in normal and + mode, and the remaining half if you spell certain countries, which can be quite challenging for 8 letter countries... which is quite rewarding to hunt them down. So with the right attitude, you can get quite some fun out of it. Played it for 20h. Deserves more attention than only 7 reviews in total.

This is officially for linguists with RPG-hearted soul love it, so many hard-to-get achievements lol