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Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't

95% positive of 714 Steam reviews

Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by Buried Things. Published by Forklift Interactive.

About the game

From letters to lunacy, Cursed Words is a roguelike chasing ever-stronger synergies. Start with simple words like BUY or THIS or GAME, then use game-altering combos to break the rules. Before long you’ll be ¼♖♙K5XNG the ⅗H♗4 out of these 83VK??7?!

Tagged by players

Word Game
Roguelike
Deckbuilding
Roguelite
Strategy
Comedy
Auto Battler
Score Attack
Procedural Generation
LGBTQ+
Roguelike Deckbuilder
Casual

What players say

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Overwhelmingly Positive

What players say

Recommended
The trailer's line of "the word's don't matter, it's all about the score" is pretty accurate; the game focuses a lot more on the roguelite Balatro-esque synergies than the words themselves. It's a good roguelite game, but only an okay word game at best compared to something like Pronoun Palace
1.1 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Just excellent. It neatly fits into the Balatro-like genre of taking an established type of game, providing the player with a bunch of ways to cheat and/or break that game, and putting that into a roguelite, run-based structure. For my money, this is the best-designed example of that type of experience. Genuinely really clever, some fascinating mechanics, great progression. Awesome achievement!
9.2 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
This game is super well made and cute, but it quickly becomes a game of "how many wilds can i string together in a row?" and then the game tells you the word you made. It makes it a lot less interesting gameplay wise and I got bored. I bought it after trying the first character in the demo but all of the different wild types made me like it less. I kind of wish you had to say what letter the wild is, like the blank…
3.8 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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