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Game #38 Complete! Word Trip

Throw This Quote On The Back Of The Box: "Worth the trip."

Final Thoughts: Curse you Word Trip! I was looking for a bad catalogue game since I had just played a great season game and didn't want to use up all my good games in a row. Word Trip had to go and mess things up by being halfway decent. The audacity. THE AUDACITY. This game is pretty good and really simple. I can't have funny thoughts about that!

The caveat I'll preface this with is that this isn't anything great or exciting. This isn't Saturday Edition or Crankin' or even Casual Birder. No one is running up to tell you how excited they were about Playdate. If they do, that's just the developer and please report them because they've been banned from several Targets already for that level of aggressive marketing. Word Trip isn't making any end of year "best of" lists because this just isn't the kind of game that was made with that sort of thing in mind. No one's favorite game is going to be Word Trip. If someone tells you that, keep a close eye on them because they might be a rogue AI built to solve word puzzles and they've escaped their lab.

What it is though is fine. It's fine! It is a perfectly enjoyable word puzzle game you can play for ten minutes when you're bored. It would up being one of the better score chasing games I played. I thought I was done and I moved on to the next mystery game, but while I was playing that one I was like "hm Word Trip was better maybe I'll go give that another run instead" and I did a couple of times. I like word puzzle games like this and there is enough here (plus online leaderboards!) that gave this decent replayability.

The biggest issue for me is the word bank feels smaller than I thought when it could be "all four letter words" and I was seeing target word repeats way more often than I should. Also the online leaderboards can be easily cheated using my fool proof method. I had this amazing run on Hard and got 56 which was good for second place in the whole world! Woo hoo! Then I checked the leaderboard scores and first place was 155. Boo. That's the word puzzle AI I've been warning everyone about! Or it is another person who found out how to cheat and just went crazy. You shouldn't be able to pause in a game like this. I get accessibility but the whole point of this is leaderboard chasing and it is way too easy to cheese with a pause button. You don't have to cheat obviously, but I always get discouraged from leaderboard chasing when the top scores just aren't possible to get legit.

Regardless, it was a solid title. I had fun even with the simplicity and the flaws I mentioned above. If you like word puzzles you'll probably like this.

Should You Play It? Sure. if you like word puzzles at least. There's definitely a niche for this sort of game and if you aren't in it, you won't like it.

Final Score: 6. Totally fine. Mostly pretty good even if it could've been better. Putting it just below Hyper Meteor which still stands as the best point chasing option on the Playdate imo.

Games Completed: 378/151

Game Rankings:
38) PLAYTIME Weird Alarm Clocks
37) HANA Spacetime Fantasy
36) Boogie Loops
35) Hidey Spot
34) Bub-O Collect
33) The Lushes Land
32) Nightingale
31) A Joke That's Worth 0.99 Cents
30) Recommendation Dog!!
29) Trickle Greenweed, Mermaid At Law
28) Whitewater Wipeout
27) The Botanist
26) Snak
25) DYG
24) Lost Your Marbles
23) Grand Tour Legends
22) Life's Too Short
21) Life's 2 Short: Unhooked
20) Demon Quest '85
19) The Fall of Elena Temple
18) Flipper Lifter
17) Questy Chess
16) Slitherlink PD
15) The Keyper
14) SKEW
13) Star Sled
12) Echoic Memory
11) Executive Golf DX
10) Omaze
9) Sasquatchers
8) Word Trip
7) Hyper Meteor
6) Castle Tintagel
5) Casual Birder
4) Zipper
3) Pick Pack Pup
2) Crankin's Time Travel Adventure
1) Saturday Edition