Developer Adriaan de Jongh is known for numerous gaming projects over the past decade-plus, but I will always associate him as the head honcho behind the positively charming hidden object game Hidden Folks, one of my all-time favorites. Developer Aran Koning has a similarly impressive résumé including helping in the making of Hidden Folks. Now the two have teamed up once again for a new word game called wurdweb which has just been announced for Apple Arcade. The idea is to take pre-determined words from a list and lay them out on the board in an interconnected fashion similar to Scrabble, with the goal being to create a connected path or “web" that leads to the finish tile. You can place just the bare minimum amount of words to create that path, or get elaborate and place many more words that create a web that hits bonus tiles as well. All the while cute little characters that Adriaan proudly exclaims “do absolutely nothing" are walking around the board, brightening your day.
One of the big features of wurdweb is that all the puzzles are procedurally generated, meaning you’ll have infinite puzzles to play that will be different every time. There are 3 main modes, as described on the game’s website: “Tangle Mode where you need to put down 15 words, which you will only be able to do if you pick up enough extra words; Precise Mode, where puzzles are completed by placing a word on a Finish Tile, and only an exact placement of words will get you there; and Daily, Weekly and Monthly Mode, where you put down as many words as you can and compete with other players – if you want." The game also includes more than 20 different word themes and controller support. According to the App Store data wurdweb should be arriving on Apple Arcade on August 13th, a month from today, and in the meantime you can head over to our forums to talk about this one.
