
You are Mr. Hangman's latest victim! In this dark and thrilling roguelike you must use a combination of your wits and life-saving powerups to defeat his twisted version of the classic word game, hangman. Can you make it out alive?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Word Game, Spelling, Casual, Singleplayer.

You are Mr. Hangman's latest victim! In this dark and thrilling roguelike you must use a combination of your wits and life-saving powerups to defeat his twisted version of the classic word game, hangman. Can you make it out alive?

The Grid.
Four original puzzle games — words, logic, and patterns — wrapped in a single elegant arcade package.

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The most used nouns in English. Can you recognize them in another language? Unscramble frequently used words in a unique mix of logic puzzle, word search, and hangman.
Four original puzzle games — words, logic, and patterns — wrapped in a single elegant arcade package.
Why similar: Language Learning 42.7% ★, Word Game 28.4%, Spelling 24.3% ★, Casual 3.5%, Indie 0.7%
The most used nouns in English. Can you recognize them in another language? Unscramble frequently used words in a unique mix of logic puzzle, word search, and hangman.
Why similar: Language Learning 45.1% ★, Spelling 29.1% ★, Word Game 24.4%, Casual 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Guide a lovable worm through clever platform puzzles, collect letter-fruit, reach the portal, and remember the word. Learn 10,000 words across nine languages and 4,500 levels—fully offline, with no ads, accounts, subscriptions, or tracking.
Why similar: Language Learning 44.6% ★, Word Game 28.2%, Spelling 25.2% ★, Casual 1.7%, Indie 0.4%
Typing × English! Practice typing while learning English vocabulary. 2,809 words that cover over 92% of everyday English and 94% of TOEIC vocabulary, across 149 stages ordered by frequency. Now with three question modes and pronunciation audio for every word!
Why similar: Language Learning 45% ★, Spelling 25.3% ★, Word Game 20.8%, Dark 6.3%, Casual 1.8%
A strategy roguelike disguised as a word game. Pick the tiles, and the game automatically finds and scores valid words in your hand. All possible combinations, at once. Shop between rounds, upgrade your tiles, stack cards. No vocabulary needed.
Why similar: Language Learning 38.8% ★, Word Game 29.6%, Spelling 18.4% ★, Roguelike 8.2%, Strategy 2.5%
A casual word-building multiplayer game where you use your phone as a controller. Play with all your friends at once, play in different modes, play with different languages and use your own group's custom dictionaries!
Why similar: Language Learning 38.9% ★, Spelling 32.5% ★, Word Game 26.7%, Casual 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Pitchforks & Paragraphs is an arcade-style medieval typing game where you defend the castle gates from waves of rioting peasants. Type the words on their signs to cast spellballs, stop the advancing mob, build score multipliers through accuracy, survive longer, and climb the global leaderboards.
Why similar: Language Learning 43% ★, Spelling 28% ★, Word Game 23.1%, Linear 1.7%, Casual 1.5%
With the promise of fast, easy cash, you participate in a trial conducted by a mysterious pharmaceutical company. Your only task is to complete ten rounds of Hangman while receiving intermittent doses of their experimental drug. The company assures you the procedure is completely safe. Good luck.
Why similar: Spelling 35.4% ★, Word Game 27.6%, Dark 16.5%, Horror 9.7%, Strategy 2.9%
Connect letters that are laid around a dish to form English words.
Why similar: Language Learning 43.4% ★, Word Game 27.1%, Spelling 25.5% ★, Stylized 2.2%, Casual 1.3%
Bach For More Words is a challenging word game where you unscramble a word and select its definition from three related definitions. Then, you'll pair up the remaining definitions with their matching words. You'll find yourself learning new words without even trying with Bach For More Words!
Why similar: Language Learning 42.8% ★, Word Game 28.2%, Spelling 26.8% ★, Casual 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
This is a collection of several word mini-games designed to make memorizing English words fun and unforgettable, while achieving the sense of satisfaction from high scores. Each mini-game acts like a mini-lab, offering different way such as playing, dictation, or speaking to improve your level.
Why similar: Word Game 35.1%, Spelling 31.8% ★, Language Learning 18.1% ★, Roguelike 10.7%, Casual 2.6%
Idiom Crush is a relaxing and casual Chinese character puzzle game centered on classical Chinese idioms. Refer to the definition hints to examine the character grid, tap four Chinese characters in the correct order to locate and eliminate the hidden idioms.
Why similar: Language Learning 56.1% ★, Spelling 39% ★, Casual 2.4%, Strategy 2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Learn languages through immersive quests, interactive dialogues, and spaced repetition combats. Help a young hero lift a magical curse by mastering a new language. Customize your learning experience and explore a vibrant world filled with unique characters. Start your journey to fluency today!
Why similar: Language Learning 47.2% ★, Spelling 24.9% ★, Word Game 22.6%, 1990's 4.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Strategy meets physics, in this roguelike word game, where you combine spelling with cool upgrades to score high. Spell, m€rge, upgr@de, coz¥, combinati*ns, high$core, hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!
Why similar: Word Game 41.3%, Spelling 38.3% ★, Roguelike 13.4%, Strategy 3.1%, Casual 2.4%
A roguelike word game that combines Balatro with Scrabble. Power up letters and use 100+ passive abilities to defeat bosses and rack up high scores!
Why similar: Word Game 51%, Spelling 22.4% ★, Roguelike 16.3%, Strategy 5%, Casual 3.9%
A fun collection of learning games for young children. Practice letters, phonics, counting, shapes, and colors with cheerful music, sound effects, and no game-over screens.
Why similar: Language Learning 42.7% ★, Word Game 27%, Spelling 26.7% ★, Casual 2.1%, 3D 1.4%
The purpose of the puzzle is to guess the unknown word by adding the correct letters. For every unsuccessful attempt, a part of the human body will appear on the gallows.
Why similar: Word Game 34.9%, Spelling 26.4% ★, Dark 13.2%, Horror 10.1%, Thriller 7.8%
721 words. That is enough to cover 90% of conversations in English. Unscramble those words in Mini Words - a unique mix of puzzle, word search and hangman.
Why similar: Language Learning 44.2% ★, Spelling 28.3% ★, Word Game 25.4%, Casual 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Translate an unknown language to uncover mysteries and solve puzzles. Use context clues, dictionary notes, and your last two remaining brain cells to understand the plot, make crucial decisions, and build your own dialogue responses. And, hopefully, avoid insulting entire bloodlines in the process.
Why similar: Language Learning 64% ★, Word Game 33.8%, Casual 1.8%, Indie 0.4%
A word-guessing roguelike where you cast spells by solving five-letter word puzzles. Battle your way through terrifying enemies, and obtain powerful runes and items to aid you in your journey.
Why similar: Word Game 38.9%, Spelling 24.5% ★, Roguelike 16.1%, Perma Death 11.4%, Dark 3.7%
Rekule is a visual language-learning app where you learn languages through images instead of translations. Write, repeat, and test your knowledge as you build direct associations with the language you want to learn.
Why similar: Language Learning 61.7% ★, Spelling 32.4% ★, Linear 2.6%, Casual 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
ULTRACRACK is a fun word puzzle game where you need to combine available letters to form words without leaving anything behind. Enjoy daily challenges and other game modes in this addictive word game.
Why similar: Word Game 49.5%, Spelling 43.4% ★, Casual 4%, Strategy 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
A roguelike card battler that teaches you Japanese. Master words to serve meals and chain huge combos. Seal yokai in a haunted izakaya. From basic to advanced, every run teaches you something new.
Why similar: Language Learning 52% ★, Spelling 26% ★, Roguelike 8.7%, Perma Death 7.9%, Strategy 1.8%
FlashWords: Wordfall is a language-learning word game where you guide falling words to their correct translations, clear the board, and unlock new vocabulary as you play.
Why similar: Language Learning 52.8% ★, Word Game 41.7%, Casual 3.2%, Linear 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Do you like word search games? In Word Mesh, you have to find more than 3000 words in 10 languages ( 27000 Words if you play all ;) ).
Why similar: Word Game 48.3%, Spelling 45.2% ★, Casual 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Spell words, pick perks, score points, and survive until the end. Every round is different. How far can you make it?
Why similar: Word Game 42.2%, Spelling 39.1% ★, Roguelike 14%, Casual 4.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Game with two languages included Spanish and English. Almost eighty thousand words included in Spanish and more than 55 thousand words in English .. Learn vocabulary in two languages, casual game, where to spend a while, or lose hours.
Why similar: Word Game 46.8%, Spelling 43.8% ★, Casual 5.3%, 3D 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Learn while playing! 🎉 Palavra Animada is a gamified educational game that helps children with literacy, focusing on dyslexia. Through word and object association, it enhances phonological awareness in a fun and interactive way. 📢 Available in PT, EN, and ES!
Why similar: Spelling 49.3% ★, Word Game 41.8%, Linear 4.2%, Casual 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Pronoun Palace is a word-spelling roguelike set in a dystopian future where the government has taken your pronouns. Use spells to manipulate letter tiles, catch fish, and abuse amphetamines to defeat the Party and get your pronouns back!
Why similar: Spelling 40.2% ★, Word Game 38.1%, Roguelike 13.6%, Perma Death 2.8%, Casual 2.2%
Survive horrific pressure as you try to guess words before being brutally drilled by an esoteric being. Utilizing only your wit and a handful of consumables, can you make it to the end alive?
Why similar: Spelling 43.4% ★, Word Game 32.1%, Thriller 9.6%, Horror 6.2%, Linear 2.9%
Read 25 real novels in French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and German, narrated aloud. Tap any sentence for a full breakdown: translation, structure, and every word defined. See a word or pattern again? Jump to every other sentence that uses it.
Why similar: Language Learning 64.9% ★, Word Game 31.9%, Casual 2.2%, Indie 0.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Video game trivia crosswords. Items, NPCs, locations, mechanics, designers, and terms pulled out of hundreds of worlds; the vocabulary that comes with playing and lore. Built for gamers who notice the minutiae in their games.
Why similar: Word Game 45%, Spelling 42.2% ★, Strategy 5.8%, Stylized 3.4%, 3D 2.7%
Decode a runic cipher, then decide what it truly means. A quiet, occult detective word game: solve each scripture letter by letter, then type your own conclusion to answer a villager's question about a death, a fraud, a haunting, or an old secret.
Why similar: Language Learning 42.9% ★, Spelling 27% ★, Word Game 24.8%, Linear 2.9%, Casual 1.1%
A word based puzzle game where you twist strange rules, uncover hidden patterns, and solve clever linguistic challenges that always feel one step away from revealing something bigger.
Why similar: Language Learning 36.6% ★, Word Game 24.7%, Spelling 24.3% ★, Roguelike 8.2%, Stylized 2.5%
This is a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon through a word chain. You can move and attack by entering words. Use your vocabulary skills to reach the deepest level of the dungeon!
Why similar: Spelling 44.1% ★, Word Game 38.3%, Roguelike 13.2%, Strategy 3.2%, Indie 0.8%
A flashcard-style learning adventure where you battle through realms by answering math or language questions. Play story, endless, or local multiplayer as you train memory, test your skills, and fight toward Heavens Gate.
Why similar: Language Learning 62% ★, Word Game 21.8%, 1990's 10.2%, Strategy 3.1%, Casual 2.9%
Bringing roguelike mechanics to classic word games. Use relics to create powerful combos, play boons to craft your tiles and board, use your powers to defeat a host of tricky opponents.
Why similar: Word Game 46.8%, Spelling 30.6% ★, Roguelike 18.5%, Strategy 2.8%, Indie 0.6%
Letterlike is a challenging roguelike word game that's all about collecting cards, upgrading words, and upgrading letter tiles to make the strongest synergies and reach the highest scores!
Why similar: Word Game 39.7%, Spelling 32% ★, Roguelike 15%, Perma Death 6.5%, Strategy 3.4%
Find hidden words using unique researchers with different skills that test your strategy. English only.
Why similar: Word Game 49.7%, Spelling 40.5% ★, Casual 3.4%, Stylized 3.1%, Strategy 1.7%
Rescue the Hostages: Cryptic Countdown is a live-action FMV thriller where every second counts. Solve a series of timed word scrambles to disarm a ticking bomb and rescue hostages before time runs out. Your speed, accuracy, and nerve will determine the outcome.
Why similar: Word Game 25.7%, Spelling 23.9% ★, Thriller 19.4%, Dark 16.2%, Horror 9.7%
A roguelike deckbuilder where the cards are letters. Draft runes, spell real words to cast spells, collect powerful relics and scrolls and fight your way up the tower. Seven modes, including an asynchronous online Arena. Play in English or Greek: two dictionaries, two different games.
Why similar: Word Game 41.3%, Spelling 31.5% ★, Roguelike 14.3%, Strategy 5.2%, Casual 4.2%
Ever wondered what would happen if you crossed Scrabble with an RPG? Now you don't have to, because Letter Quest is here! Help Grimm and Rose, a couple of adorable grim reapers, defeat monsters, ghosts, evil bunnies and more using the power of words!
Why similar: Word Game 66.8%, Spelling 24% ★, Casual 6.4%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Wordies is bringing a word game you've most likely played & enjoyed to Steam. But it's harder than before, with only 5 guesses you're given the not so easy task of guessing a common American word! Guess the daily word & build up highstreaks to compete against the world in our global leaderboards!
Why similar: Word Game 51.4%, Spelling 29.5% ★, Dark 6.4%, Strategy 4.6%, Casual 4.5%
In this fast-paced word game, build words from falling tiles before your game board fills up. Flex your vocabulary to build larger words and maximize the point multiplier.
Why similar: Spelling 53.5% ★, Word Game 42.2%, Casual 3.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A thrilling twist on classic word games! Plan your move, secretly plant bombs and watch the fun explode as opponents trigger your traps. Cross their booby-trapped words, and their hard work goes boom! Use your bomb to clear obstacles or sabotage rivals—every turn is a blast in this word puzzler!
Why similar: Word Game 50.7%, Spelling 42% ★, Casual 3.3%, 3D 2.5%, Indie 0.9%
You are in the middle school spelling, but you're also dyslexic. Now you must try to win the spelling bee even with your dyslexia. Spell the words by getting letters from floating clouds and avoiding sabotage!
Why similar: Word Game 48.4%, Spelling 42.6% ★, Casual 3%, Stylized 2.9%, 3D 1.9%
Explore a frozen fantasy world in an educational point-and-click adventure. Follow Flora, Freyja and Ramia through story-driven quests, learn English spelling and grammar, and face turn-based battles where words become your greatest weapon.
Why similar: Language Learning 61.6% ★, Spelling 33.6% ★, Casual 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%, Indie 0.6%
Look at two pictures. Guess wrong ten times. Then suddenly realize the terrible joke was there all along. Pun-ishment is a playful picture puzzle game about puns, wordplay, and lateral thinking, built for quick laughs, shared guesses, and “just one more” moments.
Why similar: Word Game 53.5%, Spelling 40.5% ★, Casual 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Think you can guess the answer from a few emojis? Emoji Guess Party is a lighthearted emoji puzzle game filled with idioms, wordplay, internet slang, and brain-teasing riddles. Play solo or guess together with friends.
Why similar: Spelling 49.1% ★, Word Game 44.5%, Casual 3.6%, Strategy 2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Words for Evil is a fast paced word game combined with a fantasy RPG. It features everything you expect from an RPG, including combat, hero progression, loot and more, all built on top of word game mechanics.
Why similar: Word Game 57%, Spelling 41.7% ★, Casual 0.9%, Indie 0.4%
A first-person horror game where you must learn Japanese or... Polly Glot, the crazy language learning app mascot will kill you!
Why similar: Language Learning 66.3% ★, Roguelike 13.1%, 1990's 7.8%, Horror 7.6%, First-Person 3.9%
A grim sequel to the puzzle of guessing words. The rules are the same - you need to guess the word, and you have the right to make a mistake 6 times, otherwise the man will be in the noose. And be careful - the game contains many secrets...
Why similar: Word Game 33.3%, Spelling 27% ★, Thriller 11.8%, Dark 11.3%, Horror 9.3%
How do you like your English words? Scrambled? Then you're going to love this one. Save the generic fantasy setting from scrambled word monsters using the best weapon you have -- a keyboard. Type words, gain experience, level up, upgrade skills, unlock achievements, and post to leaderboards.
Why similar: Word Game 50.6%, Spelling 44.5% ★, Casual 4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A Montessori-inspired adventure for curious children aged 4 to 8. Explore a colorful village with Rory the rabbit and discover hands-on learning activities like colors, shapes, numbers, letters, nature and more. No pressure, no scores. Just curious kids and a world where learning feels like play.
Why similar: Language Learning 61.1% ★, Spelling 34.7% ★, Casual 3%, 3D 0.8%, Indie 0.4%
A cozy word puzzle. Trace neighbouring letters to spell hidden words and clear the grid — calm, unhurried and impossible to lose. Themed packs, daily puzzles, endless and time-attack modes, and three stars to chase on every level.
Why similar: Word Game 46.5%, Spelling 44.1% ★, Casual 5.3%, Stylized 3.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
A casual strategy word game. Spell words, score points, and avoid filling up the board. Enjoy the satisfying and relaxing game play.
Why similar: Spelling 46.9% ★, Word Game 44.2%, Casual 3.6%, Strategy 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
ROGLE is the classic game of Wordle with a mix of rogue-like elements, that increases in difficulty as you succeed. As you play, you will gain abilities that will increase your chances of finding the word while the difficulty increases and you challenge enemies that will attempt to stop you.
Why similar: Word Game 38.2%, Spelling 30.3% ★, Roguelike 15.2%, Perma Death 5.8%, Strategy 4.9%
SPELLCAST combines the strategy and deckbuilding of a card battler with the dynamic gameplay of word games. Battle through 10 different scenarios or the roguelite campaign!
Why similar: Word Game 41.2%, Spelling 39.5% ★, Roguelike 11.1%, Perma Death 5.2%, Strategy 1.9%
Word Forward isn’t about spelling the longest words or the most clever. It’s about using chess-like strategy to clear every tile and declare victory in 500 puzzles. It requires cunning and strategy - Word Forward is a brain teaser that will really make you think!
Why similar: Word Game 49.1%, Spelling 44.9% ★, Casual 3%, Strategy 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Embark on an epic linguistic adventure in Letters & Legends, where words and wits are your greatest weapons! Sharpen your tongue and show your enemies who the true wordsmith is!
Why similar: Word Game 47.6%, Spelling 45.2% ★, Casual 3%, Strategy 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%