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Use Your Words cover art

Use Your Words

Smiling Buddha Games, LLC · Screenwave Media · 2017-04-03

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

CasualIndie

Modes: Multiplayer, Split screen

Releases: Aug 03, 2017 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 04, 2017 (Xbox One), Apr 04, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Apr 03, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 03, 2017 (Mac), Apr 27, 2017 (Wii U)

Use Your Words is the new party game for funny people and their unfunny friends! Laugh your way through four hilarious mini-games! Use your smartphone to fill in the blank, or try your luck using one of our answers to get laughs! No matter your strategy, Use Your Words brings comedy home!

4
playing now
89%
positive of 849 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Use Your Words is a party video game developed by Smiling Buddha Games and published by Screenwave Media. It was released for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Wii U in April 2017, and for the Nintendo Switch in August 2017.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 23% of 9,562 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 21k–51k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 849 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.25 at Fanatical (2020-10-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 3 of 7 observed days · $12.74 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1002026-08-11 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 10 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$15.00$2.252017-04-042026-08-302017-04-04 — best price $12.742017-05-25 — best price $15.002017-08-24 — best price $7.502017-10-26 — best price $7.492017-11-22 — best price $5.992018-01-04 — best price $14.992018-02-23 — best price $4.002018-06-21 — best price $5.992018-09-13 — best price $15.002018-11-15 — best price $5.252018-11-27 — best price $14.992019-01-10 — best price $7.502019-05-24 — best price $15.002019-08-29 — best price $6.002019-11-01 — best price $14.992019-12-03 — best price $14.992020-01-09 — best price $7.502020-01-22 — best price $7.502020-05-07 — best price $3.752020-06-25 — best price $5.992020-10-21 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $6.742021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-11-24 — best price $5.242022-01-05 — best price $14.992022-06-23 — best price $2.992022-09-14 — best price $14.992023-03-16 — best price $5.242023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-12-21 — best price $4.492024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $5.242025-02-17 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-08-30 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2132026-06-01 — 13 pageviews2026-06-04 — 5 pageviews2026-06-07 — 10 pageviews2026-06-10 — 13 pageviews2026-06-13 — 15 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3 pageviews2026-06-19 — 8 pageviews2026-06-22 — 12 pageviews2026-06-25 — 10 pageviews2026-06-28 — 21 pageviews2026-07-01 — 17 pageviews2026-07-04 — 20 pageviews2026-07-07 — 8 pageviews2026-07-10 — 5 pageviews2026-07-13 — 9 pageviews2026-07-16 — 10 pageviews2026-07-19 — 15 pageviews2026-07-22 — 15 pageviews2026-07-25 — 9 pageviews2026-07-28 — 16 pageviews2026-07-31 — 7 pageviews2026-08-03 — 8 pageviews2026-08-06 — 9 pageviews2026-08-09 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 10 pageviews2026-08-15 — 12 pageviews2026-08-18 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 14 pageviews2026-08-24 — 12 pageviews2026-08-27 — 7 pageviews2026-08-29 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
86.8%
earned "Party On!"
0.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportStatsRemote Play on TVRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,7730%22
PS4 (PlayStation)1,1552%23
Xbox One (Xbox)7582%22
Switch (Nintendo)490%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

Co-opFunnyIndiePartyCasualComedyParty GameMultiplayerLocal Multiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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