WordHerd
Work your way from simple to obscure and obtuse words in this brilliant, twisty, word finding puzzle game. Help Mia call the lost animals home before nightfall. Learn some modern, obscure and comic meanings as…
WordHerd is an arcade developed by Nellyvision Limited, released 31 March 2020 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What WordHerd is
WordHerd is an arcade game developed by Nellyvision Limited and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Work your way from simple to obscure and obtuse words in this brilliant, twisty, word finding puzzle game. Help Mia call the lost animals home before nightfall. Learn some modern, obscure and comic meanings as you try to beat your longest, rarest and highest scoring words through the ninety levels of word detective animal rescue. Mia will do her best to help you but when she's out of words you're on your own... Words can twist and turn across the board, any word you find can help Mia. Watch out for the new letter blocks and brain teaser levels with extra rules for really fussy animals. Use the +Control Pad and A Button or the touch screen and stylus to highlight words you find, new letters…
How it plays
Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
WordHerd launched on 31 March 2020, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
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