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Around the Words

3DDUO · Plug In Digital · 2017-08-08

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 07, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Test your vocabulary and help the gentle jellyfish by trying to form as many words as possible with the letters represented on their bodies. Each time there's a wave, new jellyfish appear on the grid to increase your chances of finding longer and more complex words that will score you more points!

Around the Words is a Casual, Indie game released in 2017, priced at $3.99, with a Mostly Negative review sentiment (36% of 11 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

33%
positive of 12 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$3.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 92% of 28,995 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-03

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220172026Week of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Portugal, Swedish

Census log

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