I lay that at the feet of how utterly satisfying it is when you string a few good words together. I’m pretty terrible at most of the stuff I’ve listed above, and yet I loved this game. If you don’t clear tiles in a good order so they fall into something useable, it really doesn’t matter how good your words are.īeing that SpellTower is a game that lives or dies by these skills, your enjoyment of the game will largely depend on them as well. Strings of consonants or blocks of nothing but a bunch of “A’s” will leave you in a bad place. If you’re not careful you’re going to end up with huge globs of tiles that you’ll never be able to clear.
The hardest skill, though, is the tile management itself. You’ll need to get good at working your way to vowels and back out again. Being that you can go in any direction, merely looking for words isn’t enough. I was pretty pleased when I got “savory.” Then you’ll need to detect those words in a sea of letters. It’s all fine and good to have a bunch of 3-4 letter words like “pie” or “cool” to bust out, but if you’re ever going to get anywhere you need stronger stuff. But not here! You live and die by your own abilities, which is pretty interesting since the game requires a diverse set of skills to really excel.įirst and foremost you’ll need a solid vocabulary. Typically in a game like this there would be a built in hint system, or maybe you’d be able to earn some “cheats” in the course of playing.
And using rarer letters in your words (like J, X or Z) will also clear an entire row out for you.Īs I’ve already mentioned, my favorite thing about SpellTower is the lack of hand holding involved. Longer words clear more area and score more points. Heck, you can even spell words backwards!ĭepending on the game mode, you’ll either have a timer to score against, or every time you clear a word a new row of tiles appears. You can drag your finger vertical, horizontal, diagonal – every which way. To clear tiles you need to spell out words. SpellTower is sort of similar to a match-3 game, but instead of tiles with different icons, here they all have letters. So if you’re looking for a game with undo’s or hints or what-have-you then you should probably keep looking. Personally I prefer it that way, but I know not everyone does. There’s nothing here to make you feel better about yourself if your word finding skills aren’t up to snuff. It’s probably worth noting at the head that SpellTower isn’t the kind of game that’s going to do any hand holding with you. By the time I’m done playing I feel so dumb that I’m pretty sure the state should take away all the knives in my house and I’m not sure how I’m able to tie my shoes in the morning. It’s humbling to go through life relatively confident that you’re at least pretty smart only to “relax” and “enjoy” some time with a word based game. SpellTower does a phenomenal job of reminding me of two very true facts. SpellTower is a rewarding word game that’s as much about tile management as it is vocabulary
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