Bookworm Adventures - Today's Time Waster

Posted Dec 7th 2006 4:00PM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Shareware, Time-Wasters

I'm a sucker for spelling games, and Bookworm Adventures is by far the best I've played in a long time. If you read Penny Arcade, you've heard of this one already. It's a turn-based RPG for Windows that works like most RPGs' battle modes: You face off against a series of enemies, increasing your power and gaining new items and abilities as you win battles. The twist, of course, is that you do battle with words. At the bottom of the battle screen you have a set of letter tiles. Some letters are more powerful (think Scrabble) that you click on to spell a word, and then you click Attack. The better, and harder, a word is, the more damage it does. As you progress, you collect items which you can equip three at a time. The "Bow of Zyx," for example, boosts your damage whenever you spell words with the letters X, Y, or Z. Other items are more generic RPG items, like shields that block some damage or certain types of attacks, and you can also pick up potions that restore your health, boost your next attack, or remove effects like poison. Each level has a half-dozen enemies followed by a boss enemy, and the game gets pretty challenging surprisingly fast. You can download a trial version of Bookworm Adventures for free, which is several hours' worth of good entertainment, or you can drop $29.95 to get the full version, which includes three adventures.

Tags: bookworm adventures, BookwormAdventures, fun, game, shareware, spelling, windows, words

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

12-07-2006 @ 6:14PM

Mr. Roach said...

Unfortunatly, the demo only gives you 1 hour of playtime.

12-08-2006 @ 2:30AM

Willmonwah said...

Isn't this just like Dungeon Scroll from RTsoft? I hope it's developed by them...

12-08-2006 @ 4:04PM

Ankher said...

No, it's made by Popcap

12-09-2006 @ 6:56AM

Nicole Simon said...

I usually do not like those games because my knowledge of english words is somehow limited - especially the more exotic word. Translated versions on the other side very often have very funny understanding of my language as in "that is supposed to be a word but this not? Are you kidding me??"

So I would love to see such a game in a good translation to have more fun. :(

12-09-2006 @ 11:30PM

J. D. Harper said...

I loved the demo so much that I bought the full version. Thanks for pointing it out!

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