Lightwood Games today announced their next title for the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS. The game will be called Word Puzzles by POWGI and is expected to be released later this year.
Word Puzzles by POWGI will contain six different pen-and-paper style word puzzles which are solved using the stylus and touch-screen controls. Featuring hundreds of hand-crafted word puzzles, and with a firm focus on the content, it’s a no-fluff puzzle variety pack that’s ready to play whenever you are.
Now if you know me by now you’ll know that I’m a fan of amiibo and this third party title will feature amiibo functionality! As well as solving the included puzzle content, players can unlock special, custom content by touching an amiibo. Each figure generates a unique personalised puzzle containing its nickname.
The puzzles included are:
- Word Maze – Like a wiggly word search! Find the words and solve the maze!
- Mixups – A fiendishly difficult anagram puzzle with three words all jumbled together!
- One Word – The word search puzzle where there’s only one word to find!
- Flowers – Plant pairs of letters around the flower to grow six words with a common middle!
- Circles – Three overlapping circles hide three connected words. Find the missing letter to unscramble them all!
- Crossovers – Crossword puzzles with only one letter missing, which come together to solve a clue!
Word Games are Lightwood’s speciality. The developer also developed Word Party, a series of competitive word puzzle mini-games for the Nintendo Wii U which is set for release in November. They also previously worked on a number of other titles in collaboration with POWGI, and several mobile apps. Word Search by POWGI was released on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U back in April 2015.
Word Search Party has been downloaded nearly two million times on iPhone and iPad and Lightwood Games have more titles planned for 2016. .
Word Puzzles by POWGI will be available on the Nintendo eShop in US and Europe and will retail for $9.99 in North America. The game has been rated E for Everyone.
