But the official Lingo game is so much worse than that. There are 30-second unskippable video ads between levels, coins and gems to collect and of course purchase with real money, 4 and, inexplicably, a mandatory bingo game between each level of the word game. Corny graphics, terrible music, and even the “how to play” onboarding is frustrating. And of course they admit to a whole slew of data tracking in their App Store metadata and ask to be permitted to track you, and if you grant Lingo permission to send you notifications they send a few per day every day reminding you to play more Lingo. Yes, both games involve guessing five-letter words, but Josh Wardle’s Wordle is a wonderfully simple, totally free game designed only to bring people a bit of serene enjoyment for a few minutes per day. The official Lingo app is an ugly cacophonous confusing jumble of concepts intended to hook players on in-app purchases, and whose only saving grace is that it’s no fun at all to actually play and thus, although not for lack of trying, not the least bit addictive in practice. There’s a reason you probably never heard of the official Lingo app. Words With Friends is a very popular Scrabble-like game, but it is not a Scrabble rip-off. There’s only one “Scrabble” in the App Store and it’s licensed from Hasbro. (“ Scrubble” might be crossing the rip-off line, though.)Īndy Baio mentioned Jotto, a two-player paper-and-pencil secret word game from the 1950s. Word Game Hero is an iOS game for iPhone and iPad by Jake Nelson. It’s a 4-to-7-letter-word guessing game, free to play with ads after a five-day trial period, and $3 for a one-time unlock for ad-free unlimited play. It’s well-made, and very iOS-y, including support for SharePlay to play with friends over FaceTime. Definitely hope we get to finish soon.It’s also clearly inspired by Wordle, as Nelson graciously acknowledges in the Settings screen, with links to both Wordle and Lingo. Many developers would put less work into all the other content and already have "finished" the game, but with a more barren world outside of the actual main attractions. There's plenty to do and this probably doesn't mean much more than "final dungeon is still missing", ignoring the already big pile of content. Try not to let "game is not complete" scare you away. It does hurt that we still have no closure, but in the mean time I'm having fun in arcade mode. But if you accept the main game has no end yet, and focus on what's there, the game has tons of awesome content. If they rushed the game out more quickly, but it lacked most of the current content, would you be happy? Obviously no story mode ending yet is upsetting, and nobody can deny this is taking absurdly long. There is actually quite a lot of content in the game already. I have a sense they don't want to tick the "game is complete" box before it's what they really envisioned. While certainly it's been forever and the game still isn't complete, you have to consider what the game already has. Regarding all the "game will never be finished" complaints. I've seen the token jerk character lose at something and go "how could this happen? Dang you!" enough times in other stories, you know.That's all right, though. I guess I'm just not the intended audience at this age. There's a decent joke here and there, but mostly I just feel like I'm not getting anything out of the typical tropes and lack of surprises. I will say the writing is a bit too kid-ish and I ended up skipping most of it which is very unlike me. For not being the main game, it's surprisingly robust and better than many average games that have only this mode. There is also an "arcade" mode, which basically is just a roguelike side game. Including this freedom was probably very hard to balance, but is great fun as a result. Instead you can pick any skill you want and mix things up however you want. Boldly, there are no classes or rigid skill trees to choose from. Kind of like Secret of Mana with much better combat and actual significant rpg progression and build/equipment planning.
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