Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey

Released Nov 2014

Ever wondered what would happen if you crossed Scrabble with an RPG? Now you don't have to, because Letter Quest is here! Help Grimm and Rose, a couple of adorable grim reapers, defeat monsters, ghosts, evil bunnies and more using the power of words!

93% positive · 429 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

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Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

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Evaluation

Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey launched on November 20, 2014. The developer, Bacon Bandit Games, released a significant upgrade — Letter Quest Remastered — as a free update for existing owners on August 6, 2015, rewriting the game in Unity and adding new content such as an endless mode, animated enemies, and a new soundtrack. Following the Remastered release, the team continued minor patches through 2015, and issued one final update on May 21, 2018 (v2.6.0), which addressed bug fixes and GDPR compliance. That May 2018 update is the last recorded communication from the developer. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced future content, no roadmap, and no indication of ongoing development. The game has been silent since May 21, 2018 — over eight years ago. Based on the nature of that final update (compliance/bug fixes with no mention of future plans) and the complete absence of any developer communication since, the game appears to have reached its finished state.

Evidence

Final developer update (v2.6.0) addressed bug fixes and GDPR compliance — the last recorded communication from Bacon Bandit Games.

news post · May 21, 2018 source development ending

high

Letter Quest Remastered launched as a major free upgrade for existing owners, adding endless mode, animated enemies, and a new soundtrack.

news post · Aug 6, 2015 source content shipped

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Media

Details

Developer

Bacon Bandit Games

Publisher

Digerati

Achievements

Platform

Windows, macOS

Controller

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Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

About this game

Ever wondered what would happen if you crossed Scrabble with an RPG? Now you don't have to, because Letter Quest is here!

Help Grimm and Rose, a couple of adorable grim reapers, defeat monsters, ghosts, evil bunnies and more using the power of words!

Gameplay

Letter Quest is a turn-based RPG where players attack monsters by spelling words. But be careful since the monsters know how to fight back - they can create different letter tiles such as poison, plague, stone, whirlwind, duplicator, spike and flipped, steal your health, heal themselves, use critical attacks, and much, much more!

Don't worry - Grimm and Rose have a lot of tricks up their sleeves too, including crystal tiles that give special bonuses, upgradeable weapons, books that provide unique boosts, special items, upgrades, potions, and more!

Features

40 stages, with 4 unique ways to play each one
Five separate areas, each with unique art and music tracks
Tons of upgrades, books, potions, special items and weapons to help you on your journey
Over 30 monsters to fight
Boss monsters with unique abilities
Over 6 hours of gameplay - much more if you choose to complete everything!
70 quests to complete
52 achievements
A built-in dictionary of over 190,000 English words

Keyboard Support

All of the battles in Letter Quest can be played with keyboard - no more hunting for letters with the mouse if you don't want to! Simply type letters to add them to the current word, hit backspace to remove the last letter typed, and much more!

Letter Quest also supports setting key bindings for most hot-keys right in the game's options menu.