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 the library home base. Creatures are destroying the most powerful library in the galaxy. Become the last turtle guardian and help Portia the Book of Portals take on the foes who caused the catastrophe and stole all the books! Gentle rogue-lite with RPG and cozy elements, flexible input, and flexible difficulty.

The great book sanctuary of Word Turtle Island has fallen. Three villains wrecked the place and stole the legendary Books of Power. The entire library network is in chaos.

Now, it’s up to you as the last surviving turtle guardian to fight back using words, rescue books and readers, and rebuild the ultimate book sanctuary that is Word Turtle Island.

Battle with words: Use letters as projectiles, words as weapons!

Survive nature dungeons: Face word powered danger with your own powerful words. Use your special powers and word weapons to survive. Find the 27 Books of Power to challenge the final bosses and reclaim the island!

Rescue and rebuild: After battle you return to the cozy book sanctuary. Earn power-ups as you tend the bookshelves. Unlock more battle dungeons. Stay as long as you want or return to battle any time you wish!

Level up and unlock: get stronger, faster. Unlock abilities like DASH, WORD WEAPONS, and POWERS. Each word weapon and power you collect can level up too!

More Features and Gameplay

• More than 10,000 words in a curated, playful, positive dictionary that powers the words in the game
• 11 powerful abilities and 13 word weapons you can upgrade and customize your battle style
• Practice typing! AND ALSO Typing is optional – if you type there’s lots of ways to practice your typing, you get feedback and extra slow motion focus time to dodge danger
• Flexible input – use a game controller, touchscreen, mouse, or keyboard, play your way
• Flexible difficulty – before each battle, choose your difficulty! Low = fewer enemies, shorter words, lose less if you get KO’d. High = stronger foes, minibosses, big bosses, with bigger loot rewards
• Cozy book sanctuary after battle, tend bookshelves, talk with the rescued Books of Power, level up your word powers and word weapons
• Story rich adventure – talk with each legendary living Book of Power you rescue in the library
• Created by a solo game creator – art, story, music, and code created by hand made by one person
• Unlock 4 battle arenas to find the books of power.
• Mini-map! You’re never lost using the mini-map, objectives menu, and navigation arrow.
• Level up Wort! Start with the powerful word capture ability then - level 5 unlocks DASH - level 10 unlocks WORD WEAPONS - level 15 unlocks WORD POWERS (automatic abilities)
• Create bookcases in the library for more bonus points and loot
• Get loot: return from battle victorious, get word combos, tend the bookshelves
• Get bonus points and lots of loot when you unlock the 100 library points bonus gate
• Original soundtrack created for this game
• Flexible play session time with 10 to 20 hours of core gameplay. Replayable with handcrafted random flair of different words and decoration and variety of opponents in each battle
• Each arena layout designed by human hand, with flexible decorations arranged by curated random generation human crafted recipe each battle

Now it’s up to Wort and Portia (and you) to take back Word Turtle Island!