Word Turtle Island
Release date: Aug 9, 2025
Developers: Rob Stenzinger
Publishers: Rob Stenzinger
Genres: Action, Casual, Indie
Categories: Single-player, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

Word action! Rescue books and the galaxy's greatest library! Gentle rogue-lite, RPG and cozy elements, flexible input, flexible difficulty.  Word action means use words as weapons! Fight with words, rescue books. Survive nature dungeons, level up tending bookshelves in the library home base. Creatures are destroying the most powerful library in the galaxy. Become the last turtle guardian and help Portia the Book of Portals take on the foes who caused the catastrophe and stole all the books! Gentle rogue-lite with RPG and cozy elements, flexible input, and flexible difficulty. Battle with words: Use letters as projectiles, words as weapons! Survive nature dungeons: Face word powered danger with your own powerful words. Use your special powers and word weapons to survive. Find the 27 Books of Power to challenge the final bosses and reclaim the island! Rescue and rebuild: After battle you return to the cozy book sanctuary. Earn power-ups as you tend the bookshelves. Unlock more battle dungeons. Stay as long as you want or return to battle any time you wish! Level up and unlock: get stronger, faster. Unlock abilities like DASH, WORD WEAPONS, and POWERS. Each word weapon and power you collect can level up too! Story How did the most powerful library in the galaxy become a place of battle? One day, three troublesome creatures attacked the turtle's ultimate library. They caused the turtle-beings to mysteriously disappear, and captured the living books of power. Now the three bosses have sent their armies of creatures to finish their takeover of Word Turtle Island. Portia, the book of portals, managed to escape. Now, she searches Word Turtle Island for someone to help her rescue the turtles, books and the readers caught in the catastrophe. Wort, far away at the edge of Word Turtle Island, is about to leave to seek a different turtle path when Portia finds him. Wort learns he is the last of the Word Turtle beings. Now he must level up to become the last turtle guardian to have a chance at this mission. Now it's up to Wort and Portia (and you) to take back Word Turtle Island! Play using any combination of game controller, touch screen/mouse, or keyboard for typing words. Features and Gameplay More than 10,000 words in a curated, playful, positive dictionary that powers the words in the game 11 powerful abilities and 13 word weapons you can upgrade and customize your battle style Typing is optional -- if you type there's lots of ways to practice your typing, you get feedback and extra slow motion focus time to dodge danger Flexible input -- use a game controller, touchscreen, mouse, or keyboard, play your way Flexible difficulty -- before each battle, choose your difficulty! Low = fewer enemies, shorter words, lose less if you get KO'd. High = stronger foes, minibosses, big bosses, with bigger loot rewards Cozy book sanctuary after battle, tend bookshelves, talk with the rescued Books of Power, level up your word powers and word weapons Story rich adventure -- talk with each legendary living Book of Power you rescue in the library Created by a solo game creator -- art, story, music, and code created by hand made by one person Unlock 4 battle arenas to find the books of power. Never be lost with the use the mini-map, objectives menu, and navigation arrow. Level up Wort! Start with the powerful word capture ability then - level 5 unlocks DASH - level 10 unlocks WORD WEAPONS - level 15 unlocks WORD POWERS (automatic abilities) Create bookcases in the library for more bonus points and loot Get loot: return from battle victorious, get word combos, tend the bookshelves Get bonus points and lots of loot when you unlock the 100 library points bonus gate Original soundtrack created Flexible play session time with 10 to 20 hours of core gameplay. Replayable with handcrafted random flair of different words and decoration and variety of opponents in each battle Each arena layout is designed by hand, with flexible decorations arranged by curated random generation recipe each battle