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Happy Words cover art

Happy Words

LAN - GAMES LTD · 2019-05-16

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: May 29, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), May 16, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 16, 2019 (Mac), Oct 13, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Dec 08, 2023 (Xbox One)

Happy words is a word based online multiplayer board game for 1 to 4 players in which you have to create words and connect them to existing words in order to score more points than your opponents.

Happy Words is a $4.99 Casual, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2019, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (48% of 131 reviews).

48%
positive of 131 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
3.65★
PlayStation Store rating (158 ratings)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 131 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2023-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020192026Week of 2019-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$2.492019-05-012026-10-082019-05-01 — best price $3.742019-05-24 — best price $4.992019-08-01 — best price $3.492019-11-01 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $3.742020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-04-06 — best price $3.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-10-21 — best price $3.492020-11-30 — best price $4.992021-02-11 — best price $3.992021-03-30 — best price $4.992021-09-06 — best price $3.492021-10-25 — best price $4.992021-11-24 — best price $3.492022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-02-28 — best price $3.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-11-22 — best price $2.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $2.492023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-08-27 — best price $3.992025-03-13 — best price $2.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992026-01-26 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-08-27 — best price $9.992026-09-17 — best price $9.992026-10-08 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
80.3%
earned "Scored a word of 15+ points"
3.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportStatsSteam Leaderboards

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Turkish

Player tags

PvPIndieCasualSpellingStrategyTabletopWord GameBoard GameText-BasedMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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