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Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t

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Demo Available by Buried Things · published by Forklift Interactive · 2 Apr, 2026
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From letters to lunacy, Cursed Words is a roguelike chasing ever-stronger synergies. Start with simple words like BUY or THIS or GAME, then use game-altering combos to break the rules. Before long you’ll be ¼♖♙K5XNG the ⅗H♗4 out of these 83VK??7?!

Starts as Boggle, ends as Schrödinger – Cursed Words is a roguelike adventure about writing words… for a while…until words become NUM83R5, or ♔♘♙, or the infinite void.

Each run is shaped by four pillars: your Character, your Sticker upgrades, your Stamp loadout and the consumable Tiles you bring into each fight. Every attempt becomes its own cursed experiment.

In Cursed Words you build powerful synergies using Stamps and Stickers, face tricky boss encounters and push your score higher with every stage. A base level run features five stages, each one with two encounters and a boss. Beat Stage 5 to win the run, then take on special Challenges and Crown difficulty tiers that redefine the rules and push your creativity.

Blaze a path through cursed bosses and uncover secret items and challenges that completely change the way the game is played. How about all consonants? Maybe all vowels? How about no letters at all?

  • A whopping 300 stickers and stamps to boost your scores and break the game

  • 11 characters with dramatically different playstyles

  • 20 bosses that’ll try to sabotage your runs, or can be manipulated into multiplying your score even higher

  • 26 unique challenges that completely change the rules of the game

And if all that wasn’t enough, mastering each Character’s Pin and playstyle is only the beginning. You can prove it wasn’t just a fluke by taking on the Challenge Crowns, where Score Targets are bigger, Shops are more expensive, and you’ll have to really break the rules if you want to succeed; or you can take on Quests, specific modifiers to the game’s rules that will really put your skills to the test…

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