GMTK is back with a Balatro-inspired word game! (Word Play)

Channel:
Thinky Games
Subscribers:
3,480
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQNwDdFqfvc


Balatro
Game:
Balatro (2024)
Duration: 0:00
297 views
6

Seems like Mark Brown from ‪@GMTK‬ really caught the game development bug. Less than a year after releasing Mind Over Magnet, he's now released Word Play, a roguelite strategy game inspired by Scrabble and Balatro. I had a lot of fun learning how this game works (especially getting help from chat because I'm awful at anagrams!), and I can see how there's a ton of strategic depth. Definitely worth checking out for any fans of word games.

‪@JoePlaysPuzzleGames‬ plays Word Play by ‪@GMTK‬

Thinky Games DB: https://thinkygames.com/games/word-play/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3586660/Word_Play/

#thinkygames #puzzlegame #game #wordpuzzle #wordgame #roguelite #roguelike #scrabble #balatro

ThinkyGames.com is an initiative of Carina Initiatives, who may have professional relationships with individuals and businesses related to the content of this video. See our Editorial Policy for details: https://thinkygames.com/editorial-policy/



Other Videos By Thinky Games


2025-08-08A first-person puzzler where the world moves when you move (Coupling)
2025-08-07Matching up false identities and faces in The Ratline!
2025-08-05Mapping out delivery routes in Trails!
2025-08-05Hitting massive scores in this birdy wordy Balatro-like (Birdigo)
2025-08-02Planning a medieval battle on a Tetris board!
2025-08-01Hunt down nazis in this noir detective mystery game (The Ratline - Demo)
2025-07-31These bugs keep eating all the numbers I need!
2025-07-29Trying to make monsters and humans happy in Spooky Express!
2025-07-29The bugs are eating my code! (You Are The Code)
2025-07-26Chat helps Joe find anagrams in Word Play!
2025-07-25GMTK is back with a Balatro-inspired word game! (Word Play)
2025-07-24Welding food together in Kaizen: A Factory Story!
2025-07-22A bit of contemplative beatboxing helps Joe think!
2025-07-22A brand new Zachtronics... errr... Coincidence game! (Kaizen: A Factory Story)
2025-07-19The universal symbol for collapsing floors in a puzzle game!
2025-07-17Playing with puzzle toys in The Button Effect!
2025-07-15Pushing blocks to solve a puzzle…but it's not a sokoban!
2025-07-12Can't have a puzzle game without portals!
2025-07-11Solving every kind of puzzle in this first-person puzzler (The Trials 2)
2025-07-10Joe makes up a stepping puzzle poem!
2025-07-08So many mechanics in this maximalist sokoban!


Other Statistics

Balatro Statistics For Thinky Games

Thinky Games currently has 469 views spread across 2 videos for Balatro. His channel published less than an hour of Balatro content, less than 0.91% of the total video content that Thinky Games has uploaded to YouTube.