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Words Can Kill

Typing Monkey · 2022-09-29

Steam

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 30, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Just another boring word game? No. Words Can Kill is a roguelike deckbuilder. Travel through the world trying to build the strongest deck from letter tiles and find the perfect gear. And remember, here your tactical decisions matter, not your vocabulary!

Words Can Kill is an Indie, RPG, and Strategy game released in 2022, priced at $1.99, with Mostly Positive sentiment (72% of 100 reviews) and an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000.

72%
positive of 101 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 50,825 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 101 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2026-04-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520222026Week of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$1.992022-09-292026-08-242022-09-29 — best price $6.792022-11-14 — best price $7.992022-12-12 — best price $6.392023-01-05 — best price $7.992023-03-01 — best price $5.992023-03-23 — best price $7.992023-05-25 — best price $5.192023-07-13 — best price $7.992023-08-24 — best price $4.792023-10-14 — best price $7.992023-12-21 — best price $3.992024-01-15 — best price $7.992024-03-14 — best price $3.992024-04-06 — best price $7.992024-06-14 — best price $3.992024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-09-06 — best price $3.992024-10-21 — best price $7.992024-12-04 — best price $7.992025-01-03 — best price $2.792025-02-24 — best price $7.992025-03-27 — best price $3.992025-06-21 — best price $7.992025-08-01 — best price $2.792025-09-22 — best price $7.992025-10-25 — best price $2.792025-12-15 — best price $7.992026-02-20 — best price $2.792026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-05-21 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $7.992026-08-24 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
83%
earned "Panisher"
5.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGLogicPuzzleSpellingStrategyCard GameWord GameRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

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