Wordcraft

⚔ WORDCRAFT

A dark roguelite where words are weapons.

Delve into a cursed archive where language itself has turned against you. Trace words across a living 8×8 letter grid to forge cards, then unleash them in turn-based combat against increasingly deadly guardians of the Lexicon. Every run is different. Every word matters.

🎮 How to Play

• Puzzle Phase: Drag across adjacent letters to trace words. Longer words become more powerful cards with special modifiers.
• Combat Phase: Play the cards you forged to attack, defend, heal, poison, freeze, and more.
• Survive to the end of the Archive — or get consumed by it.

✨ Features

• 12 card types — Attack, Defend, Burn, Poison, Freeze, Stun, Leech, Shred, Summon, Shift, Heal, Speed
• Elemental Reactions — Burn a frozen enemy for a Steam Blast (3× damage). Stun a poisoned enemy for Toxic Shock (double poison).
• Special Tiles — Fire, Mana, Void, and Golden tiles transform the cards you find
• Floor Modifiers — Every floor rolls a curse or buff that changes the rules: Blood Tithe, Echo Chamber, Haste, Cursed Words, and more
• 3 Scribe Classes — Alchemist (DoT specialist), Knight (tank), Oracle (combo master)
• 12 Relics — Passive upgrades that redefine your strategy each run
• Multi-Stage Bosses — Bosses enter Phase 2 at 50% HP, shattering the Lexicon
• Dynamic Biomes — The world darkens as you descend deeper into the Archive
• Full Run Map — Choose your path through Combat, Elite, Shop, Rest, and Event nodes

🧠 Tips

• Find 4+ words in the puzzle to start combat with bonus energy.
• 7+ letter words automatically gain the PIERCE modifier and hit 50% harder.
• Combo the same card type repeatedly — every 3rd combo in a chain refunds energy.
• Unused energy at end-of-turn converts to Ink for the shop.

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