Word Turtle Island

Devlog

• Word Turtle Island 1.0 Is Here!
  August 10, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger

  Word action! Rescue books and the galaxy’s greatest library! Gentle rogue-lite, RPG and cozy elements, flexible input, flexible difficulty. Survive nature dungeons, level up tending bookshelves in t... Continue reading
• Battle Arenas New Layout and Flow for Word Turtle Island's 2nd July Update
  July 31, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger

  Big battle layout and flow updates for the main 4 battle arenas a.k.a. nature dungeons where you rescue the legendary books of power. Additional updates like keyboard input typing action refinements,... Continue reading
• WTI Mid-July Update: More loot and library home base fun updates!
  July 15, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger

  This update to Word Turtle Island brings big fun improvements to the library home base. Paths for running and exploring via the walls layouts, new zones where you can build more bookcases for bigger f... Continue reading
• Slow motion effects, dictionary update, and more!
  June 23, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger

  Word focus time slowdown is more visual, more time for focus, and keeps you safer when you’re typing in the middle of battle. Plus performance improvements and bug fixes too. And a dictionary update... Continue reading
• Powered-up Word Capture, Slow Motion Focus, Objectives Guidance, and More!
  May 25, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger

  Time for the May update! It’s been a big month of work and progress and fun for Word Turtle Island. More powerful word capture, More helpful objectives guidance! Word capture, word capture, word cap... Continue reading

  
• Create Bookshelves for More Loot in the WTI April Update
  April 25, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger#update

  April’s update to WTI brings more bookshelves to the sanctuary! Collect and level up your word weapons and powers faster by creating bonus bookshelves! Summon the option to build a bookshelf anywher... Continue reading

  
• Flexible Difficulty, Friendlier Game Beginning and More in the WTI March Update
  March 27, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger

  March’s update to WTI is here! Big improvements to flexible difficulty via the battle promise menu and lots of tuning which affects everything from how many opponents, how strong they are, to also h... Continue reading

  
• Word Turtle Island February Update: Story, Powers, Leveling Up
  February 21, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger

  February’s update to WTI is here! This update adds more to story, word capture, and leveling up unlocks. Story! The whole narrative of rescue books and readers is expanded, now each Book of Power yo... Continue reading
• WTI January Update: Opponents and Fixes!
  January 28, 2025 by Rob Stenzinger

  January’s update to WTI brings new opponents, refinements to powers, some bug fixes and performance improvements. New opponent: Trouble Turrets that seek you out and launch book projectiles to stop... Continue reading
• Word Turtle Island November Update
  November 23, 2024 by Rob Stenzinger

  November’s update to WTI brings gameplay refinements. Tuning what it feels like to play. Creatures now show emotes reacting to good and bad things and showing what they’re up to next. Mini-map ref... Continue reading
• WTI New Typing Score Feedback + More October Update
  October 28, 2024 by Rob Stenzinger

  Excited for how this game is developing and for the feedback I’ve received, especially at in person events. Full version is still a few months away, but it is feeling closer and closer. As a solo in... Continue reading
• Word Turtle Island - Word Capture Becomes Word Weapon
  September 28, 2024 by Rob Stenzinger

  Welcome to the Word Turtle Island September update! It includes many improvements, bug fixes, and a new feature: word capture one letter at a time! Word capture one letter at a time! Each letter you c... Continue reading
• Word Turtle Island New Free Demo In-Browser and Downloadable
  August 15, 2024 by Rob Stenzinger#update, #demo, #major update

  The free demo for Word Turtle Island is ready! On Itch.io you can play it in your web browser or download it for Windows . What’s in the demo? Shows the whole beginning and both the battle and book... Continue reading

  
• Word Turtle Island July Update
  July 28, 2024 by Rob Stenzinger

  About a month ago I quietly launched Word Turtle Island into early access. To get there was a 2.5 year path of developing and testing privately and at a few public events. Only a month since starting... Continue reading
• Word Turtle Island - Early Access Begins
  June 25, 2024 by Rob Stenzinger#announcement

  What is Word Turtle Island ? Word Turtle Island is an action plus relaxing game about using the power of words to rescue books and readers. I’ve been putting all I got into it as a solo indie game c... Continue reading