The Game Census
Word Rescue cover art

Word Rescue

Redwood Games · Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 01, 1992 (DOS), May 01, 1992 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 01, 1992 (Mac)

Word Rescue is an incredible adventure for kids who want to rescue all the stolen words from the mean ol' Gruzzles. The Gruzzles can't read, and they don't want anyone else to read. So, they've stolen the words out of all of our books! Benny Bookworm needs your help to stop the Gruzzles.

75%
positive of 107 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)
Word Rescue is an educational platform game for MS-DOS written by Karen Crowther of Redwood Games and published by Apogee Software in March 1992. It was re-released in 2015 through Steam with support for Windows and Mac. The game also allows the player interact with a pair of Stereoscopic Vision Glasses.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 29,056 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.7k–6.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 107 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Fanatical (2023-11-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420152026Week of 2015-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$0.742015-05-052026-10-082015-05-05 — best price $29.992017-06-22 — best price $1.242019-02-12 — best price $4.992020-05-04 — best price $4.992020-07-13 — best price $4.992020-08-06 — best price $4.492020-09-06 — best price $4.492020-10-03 — best price $4.992020-10-26 — best price $4.492020-11-20 — best price $4.492020-12-16 — best price $4.992021-01-11 — best price $4.492021-02-03 — best price $4.992021-03-02 — best price $4.992021-03-27 — best price $4.492021-04-25 — best price $4.992021-05-17 — best price $3.662021-06-09 — best price $3.662021-07-17 — best price $4.492021-08-18 — best price $3.662021-10-11 — best price $4.492021-11-03 — best price $3.662021-12-08 — best price $4.492022-01-24 — best price $3.662022-02-28 — best price $4.492022-04-21 — best price $3.662022-06-02 — best price $3.662022-07-14 — best price $3.662022-08-19 — best price $4.492022-11-16 — best price $3.662023-05-24 — best price $4.992023-12-01 — best price $3.662024-07-11 — best price $4.992025-02-21 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $0.842026-10-08 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2012026-07-19 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 10 pageviews2026-07-25 — 10 pageviews2026-07-28 — 17 pageviews2026-07-31 — 9 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 8 pageviews2026-08-09 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 7 pageviews2026-08-15 — 20 pageviews2026-08-18 — 14 pageviews2026-08-21 — 13 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-30 — 11 pageviews2026-09-02 — 13 pageviews2026-09-05 — 11 pageviews2026-09-08 — 6 pageviews2026-09-11 — 9 pageviews2026-09-14 — 14 pageviews2026-09-17 — 15 pageviews2026-09-20 — 7 pageviews2026-09-23 — 15 pageviews2026-09-26 — 9 pageviews2026-09-29 — 12 pageviews2026-10-02 — 6 pageviews2026-10-05 — 8 pageviews2026-10-08 — 4 pageviews2026-10-11 — 16 pageviews2026-10-14 — 18 pageviews2026-10-15 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

1990'sActionClassicAdventureEducationFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

Players also track

Don't Knock TwiceTanziaDARQ: Complete EditionOmensight: Definitive EditionEternity: The Last UnicornWarhammer: ChaosbaneApsulov: End of GodsONINAKI

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗Discord ↗