Mobot: There’s no shortage of multiplayer word games out there, including Words With Friends, Quarrel, and – as reviewed last week – Letterpress.
Now we’re looking at a predominantly single-player word effort, namely Spellwood (Word Game Adventure, to use its full title) from Sega.
At its core, Spellwood is another turn-based Scrabble type game, with letters of varying value, double and triple modifiers, and the ability to swap tiles and what have you. That much is familiar.
GodisaGeek: This week we’re taking a look at Redrum: Dead Diary from Anarchy Enterprises, NARR8 from NARR8 Limited, Spellwood: Word Game Adventure from Three Ring Design and The Adorables from Thumbstar Games."
Triverse writes, "Spellwood also doesn’t follow the lead of other titles in the word game area. Here, tiles are usually removed after the next move so the board is constantly being changed, strategies updated and reworked and even scrapped because letters you were depending on are now gone from the board. This is great as it keeps the game flowing and moving forward rather than becoming a search for an open tile to place that last “Z” tile or “X” one to finish your pile. That is the key here though, if you run out of tiles and your opponent is still alive, or has tiles, then you lose so spell big words and drop some major pain on your opponent as quickly as possible."
AR: Spellwood is a puzzle strategy game with a twist. It’s very similar to classic board games like Scrabble, but it makes it more interactive with its RPG style. Here, brains (and an expansive vocabulary) are your best weapon to destroy the enemy.
The game has Adventure mode, which is for a single player, and Duel Friends, where you can play with Facebook friends.
