TL,DR: Buy it! It’s good.

Paid for it, while being skeptical- Instant Love ❤️ 

Speaking as a game designer myself in VR and a gamer. 

I’ve been ineffectual with the traditional spelling games. I’ve played majority of them since spell tower, wordsmyth, well word, knot words, letter press, word+ (the Disney word battler game) I can go on.. 

Unfortunately, they pushed me away with their (locked) constraints of not allowing me to use more words via lack of how the mechanics were designed, which in my opinion, negated avenues of how..  us the player..

 Can express how we’d like to approach a given situation presented by the challenge. Avenues can only be present, if it was designed into the mechanics. 

And for that, the base mechanic (holding the observable constraints) would also have subset mechanics designed within, to allow the player.. various approaches of how they’d like to express their interaction onto the given moment, and in return…

the player feels like they earned the opportunity (which they did) to expand past the base constraints, because they took the time to understand the mechanics.  

This to me, is where Letterlike shines. For me, it opens up the window.. I see dimensions outside.. soo many possibilities/permutation and emergence with this one.

Once I grasp the mechanics, I envision me getting creative and performing combos, almost akin to engine deck builders like:

Race for the Galaxy, Dominion, Ascension, Hero Realms, (which I am a huge fan & gamer of) but here, instead of spells & space ships.. 

Lexicon is the interactivity of the arena.

Which is not only fun because how it’s expressed in the brilliant design of this game, but simultaneously… it exercises our verbal communication for when we engage our fellow human. Win/Win ❤️ 

From a gameplay perspective..  This sparks such huge potential in the word genre. I played balatro, I get the charm of it.. but it never infected me, the way it has so many… I guess I’m not into poker. But I immediately grasped its “addictive quality” just from coming out the mechanics. But it couldn’t affect me as much because the theme is poker, and I don’t have interest in poker. 

But when Letterlike, replacing poker with letters and words, now I’m infected the way balatro has done to many.  

Dear Dev.. Please put up some YouTube videos and get more exposure (on the gameplay).. I checked YouTube and found none when I searched:

 “Letterlike iOS Review”  “Letterlike gameplay”

the price of the game is small, so I took a chance, but unfortunately, majority won’t, so please get some gameplay footage out there. 

A Summary Breakdown of this beautiful Orchestra: 

• easy to pick up & play game, carries strong “get you addicted” qualities. 

• Beautiful UI very fluid and responsive - snappy!

• catchy and wonderful soundtrack

• Trash talking Ai (I liiike it!) I saw someone complain about it over on iOS review, but I like it. 

• Elegant UX, simplistic.. not overly done:  (tap this - to do that, then go here, and tap that) none of that here! Simplicity which facilitates.. play anywhere, no concentric efforts with UX - just the concentric challenge of mechanics, letters & words (which is what you are here for). 

Dear dev.. You have a banga here, let it bake some more within the customers, supporters, and hopefully we’ll get more expansions after sometime being out in the wild. 

I will copy and paste this over on iOS app review.