Word Turtle Island
Word Turtle Island is a nature dungeon action shooter where you use words as weapons to battle the creatures stealing books from the most powerful library in the galaxy.
One day, three powerful creatures attacked the turtles ultimate library and took its power. They caused the turtles to mysteriously disappear, and captured the living books of power. These books of power are a special group of books who each possess amazing abilities and are sentient beings.
Portia, the book of portals, managed to escape. Now, she searches Word Turtle Island for someone to help her rescue the turtles, books and the readers caught in the catastrophe.
Wort, far away at the edge of Word Turtle Island, is about to leave to seek a different turtle path when Portia finds him. You see, Wort is the last of the Word Turtles.
It is now up to Wort and Portia to take back and rebuild the book sanctuary of Word Turtle Island.
Screen captures of the current pre-early access version of Word Turtle Island
Game Play
In the nature-dungeons you will battle to rescue lost books and readers while leveling up your character, word weapons, and powers.
In the book sanctuary you'll discover the story behind the battle and rebuilding of Word Turtle Island. Here you can heal between battles and help books and readers get where they need to go. These peaceful activities are another way to level up your character, word weapons, and powers. In the book sanctuary, You'll also unlock gateways to new battles.
Early access coming soon
Early access means the game is ready to play and is also still being expanded and improved. After two and a half years of development so far, the foundation is in place. Also I’m making more tuning, refinements, and additions. Buying Word Turtle Island during this chapter of its development means your comments and questions feed into my development process and that you get to see this progress happen. You play, share with me what you think. I make adjustments and the game gets closer to the full 1.0 version.
As to what’s in the early access version so far: Early access will support game controller, keyboard, and touch/mouse input.
You can play it like a dungeon crawler with a game controller or mouse. Or play like a typing game by capturing words one letter at a time on a keyboard.
Visit Portia's book sanctuary for a relaxing break from battle while also giving you ways to level up! Some things you can do in the book sanctuary:
- talk with the books of power you've rescued so far to get the whole story of what's going on
- train and practice to get the most out of your character's word abilities, word weapons and powers
- unlock more gates for new places to battle and chances to rescue more books of power
10,000 + words in the game's word furnace. When you battle, the creatures use words from the curated dictionary full of themes like words that rhyme, word length, and fun topics.
When Wort throws a word weapon, it's filled with a line from one of Wort's journal entries. Get to know Wort a bit more every time you throw a word weapon.
Soon to be available in early access!
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