# Word Forward

Summer DB entity ID: 462a7d50\-81e7\-458c\-9cc9\-9a7ac234833d

Steam App ID: 1117360

Selected as a Polygon Essential for Wordle fanatics\!   Beautifully simple\. Endlessly challenging\.   Word Forward is the puzzle game where every choice matters\.   Can you use all of the letters in the 5x5 grid to make words disappear and clear the board? Word Forward isn’t about spelling the longest words or the most clever \- it’s about carefully using every tile to declare victory in 500 puzzles\. It requires cunning and strategy \-\- Word Forward is a brain teaser that will really make you think\!            SPELL words by tracing a line between tiles in any direction, including diagonally   SWAP any two letters on the grid by using a SWAP TOKEN, earned during gameplay   JUMBLE the tiles on the grid to replace all the letters with new ones when all else fails   CHANGE the letter on a tile to any other letter you choose using the SWAP MODIFIER   ELIMINATE stubborn tiles with BOMBS to get yourself out of a tight spot    The \#1 word puzzle game played more than 6 million times is now available on Steam\!

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Rocketship Park

- Publisher: Thalamus Digital

- Release date: Aug 28, 2019

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Casual, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1117360/ss\_69e27de82f8436fde14ee43b090108c504579613\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675299185, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1117360/ss\_6200a4dfb32a124944dd52148ef834788837bc44\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675299185, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1117360/ss\_3c3222522f850cfb8ffb21e30259504ba3ad08bc\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675299185, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1117360/ss\_ea54d882756cae8dca00996df0823d94cab274ae\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675299185, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1117360/ss\_0c642ce4f5fd7a20c671073ef4a62bece741261e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1675299185

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 8

- Steam positive reviews: 7

- Steam negative reviews: 1

- Steam positive percentage: 87.5%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/462a7d50-81e7-458c-9cc9-9a7ac234833d/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/462a7d50-81e7-458c-9cc9-9a7ac234833d/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-24T09:07:15\.156138\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T09:07:16\.504748\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T09:07:16\.165498\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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