Neat concept but the execution is very unenjoyable. There are a few major problems:

1) The game of wordle itself is not programmed properly. It does not handle coloring duplicate letters in a word correctly, making some words much harder than they should be.

2) The "extended" dictionary being used tends to spit out words that the average person would believe are made up. Some of them likely are made up, as I couldn't find any mention of them on google or dictionaries. Notable examples include words like "dorrs" and "huhus". The game also included extra difficulty by just making words longer than 5 letters, so I'm not sure why they didn't just commit to that route instead of using gibberish.

3) There is very little explanation of mechanics outside of the basic description of how to play wordle. The one boss I encountered was particularly confusing. Boss spoiler: I eventually realized that the boss was just creating visual clutter as time went on, but at the start of the fight I just had random blue letters on my bar and had no idea what it meant. Did the boss lock those letters? Or is the game telling me I should use them? No explanation whatsoever.

4) The presentation is quite poor. The backgrounds make it hard to see anything. They can be turned off, butthen you're just playing with a black screen and a very unpolished, barebones wordle UI. There are absolutely no extra wordle features like hard mode or placing letters in the middle of the word as a visual aide, and it looks quite ugly.

I would expect this level of quality from a free prototype. The $5 pricetag is insulting.

Neat concept but the execution is very unenjoyable. There are a few major problems: 1) The game of wordle itself is not programmed properly. It does not handle coloring duplicate letters in a word correctly, making some words much harder than they should be. 2) The "extended" dictionary being used tends to spit out words that the average person would believe are made up. Some of them likely are made up, as I couldn't find any mention of them on google or dictionaries. Notable examples include words like "dorrs" and "huhus". The game also included extra difficulty by just making words longer than 5 letters, so I'm not sure why they didn't just commit to that route instead of using gibberish. 3) There is very little explanation of mechanics outside of the basic description of how to play wordle. The one boss I encountered was particularly confusing. Boss spoiler: [spoiler]I eventually realized that the boss was just creating visual clutter as time went on, but at the start of the fight I just had random blue letters on my bar and had no idea what it meant. Did the boss lock those letters? Or is the game telling me I should use them? No explanation whatsoever.[/spoiler] 4) The presentation is quite poor. The backgrounds make it hard to see anything. They can be turned off, butthen you're just playing with a black screen and a very unpolished, barebones wordle UI. There are absolutely no extra wordle features like hard mode or placing letters in the middle of the word as a visual aide, and it looks quite ugly. I would expect this level of quality from a free prototype. The $5 pricetag is insulting.