Use rule-bending books to build a massive score in anagram roguelike Watchword - out now

Build words letter by letter, while using magical books to bend the rules potentially in your favour in the anagram roguelike Watchword. Seems like it's taking a little flair from Balatro with the style.

Not just a roguelike but it's also a bit of a deck-builder, with you building up your letters and special relics to help or hinder your run. Each run through it is unique too, with the developer saying it's "endlessly re-playable", and you can even find ways to make up words in it too. As a roguelike there's also an upgrades and unlocks system where you can buy new items in a shop.

It also has Native Linux support built with Godot. Check out the trailer:

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Game Highlights:

• 80+ Unique book relics: No two powers are the same. Add infinite repeat letters to words with "The Good Book" or focus on using new words with "Thesaurus". Each book has a unique strength that combos well with other books.

• Randomize Relic Values: Feeling lucky? Edit books for a chance to perfectly align the item with your build.

• Hundreds of piece variations: Single letter, double letter, metal, glitched, gold, and more!

• Search for your Watchword: Try to spell a special word to expand the size of your board to make room for more powerful words in future trials.

• Deckbuilding & Deck-fixing: In Watchword, you play lots of words and have plenty of opportunities to see the entirety of your bag. Build your strategy to shoot for certain words & synergize with specialized books.

• Progression & Unlockables: Unlock new starting bags, difficulty levels, and books

• Face the Watchguards: Each watchguard has a unique strategy to make their level uniquely difficult.

• Made-Up Words: Watchword is the only word game where you can make up words to fit your strategy. Find forbidden books that blow the dictionary wide open.

• Endless Mode: We seriously haven't seen someone hit the max yet. You could be the first!

• Check your stats and shoot for new high scores: Go infinite and see your high scores go into the hundred of billions of points.

• Extreme Replayability: Watch minutes become hours as you try to fit just one more word into your board and beat just one more run.