Dear Reader
Dear Reader lets you curl up and play your favorite books, turning classic literature into fun word puzzles. Unscramble passages from famous books, unlock unique puzzles, and add new books to your library—from…
Dear Reader is an indie developed by Local No. 12, released 19 September 2019 on iOS and Mac.
What Dear Reader is
Dear Reader is an indie game developed by Local No. 12 and released in 2019. It is available on iOS and Mac.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dear Reader lets you curl up and play your favorite books, turning classic literature into fun word puzzles. Unscramble passages from famous books, unlock unique puzzles, and add new books to your library—from Pride and Prejudice to the Wizard of Oz. Dear Reader includes fifty literary classics and dozens of different word puzzles, from unscrambling anagrams to swapping lines of text. As far as we know, this is the first game where you can dive in and play with the actual written words from so many tempting books. And it’s fun! As Michelle Ehrhardt of Kill Screen wrote, “As novel as the game is, it plays with the same confidence as a 100-year old classic.”
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Dear Reader launched on 19 September 2019, within three weeks of Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) and Gears 5.
Released around the same time: Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019), Gears 5.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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