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Steam Deck Compatibility for Word Turtle Island: Based on My Year of Testing
Based on my testing on my own Steam Deck for over a year now, including having folks at events like Midwest Gaming Classic, VGM Con, and other indie game friendly events, the game runs and plays very well on Steam Deck.…
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Word Turtle Island: Word Action Time!
Video game loving book lovers, word nerds, poets, kids 12+, and adults, Word Turtle Island is a game that celebrates words while you kick some butt with those words to rescue the most awesome library in the galaxy. Near…
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Battle Arenas New Layout and Flow for Word Turtle Island's 2nd July Update
Big battle layout and flow updates for the main 4 battle arenas a.k.a. nature dungeons where you rescue the legendary books of power. Additional updates like keyboard input typing action refinements, one button word cap…
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WTI Mid-July Update: More loot and library home base fun updates!
This update to Word Turtle Island brings big fun improvements to the library home base. Paths for running and exploring via the walls layouts, new zones where you can build more bookcases for bigger faster library bonus…
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Slow motion effects, dictionary update, and more!
Word focus time slowdown is more visual, more time for focus, and keeps you safer when you're typing in the middle of battle. Plus performance improvements and bug fixes too. And a dictionary update, further refining th…
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Powered-up Word Capture, Slow Motion Focus, Objectives Guidance, and More!
Time for the May update! It’s been a big month of work and progress and fun for Word Turtle Island. More powerful word capture, More helpful objectives guidance! Word capture, word capture, word capture! It’s much more…
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Create Bookshelves for More Loot in the WTI April Update
April's update to WTI brings more bookshelves to the sanctuary! Collect and level up your word weapons and powers faster by creating bonus bookshelves! Summon the option to build a bookshelf anywhere you wish in your li…
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Flexible Difficulty, Friendlier Game Beginning and More in the WTI March Update
March's update to WTI is here! Big improvements to flexible difficulty via the battle promise menu and lots of tuning which affects everything from how many opponents, how strong they are, to also how long the words are…
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Word Turtle Island February Update: Story, Powers, Leveling Up
February's update to WTI is here! This update adds more to story, word capture, and leveling up unlocks. Story! The whole narrative of rescue books and readers is expanded, now each Book of Power you rescue will have so…
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WTI January Update: Opponents and Fixes!
January's update to WTI brings new opponents, refinements to powers, some bug fixes and performance improvements. New opponent: Trouble Turrets that seek you out and launch book projectiles to stop Wort and attack the b…
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Word Turtle Island November Update
November's update to WTI brings gameplay refinements. Tuning what it feels like to play. Creatures now show emotes reacting to good and bad things and showing what they're up to next. Mini-map refinement. Keyboard typin…
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Word Turtle Island October Update
Includes immediate typing score feedback for those who battle using typing. Easier health drops for word combos. Also includes the usual ongoing refinements and bug fixes. 4th monthly update in a row! typing score shows…
Announcement6 changesBalanceGameplay - Word Turtle Island
Word Turtle Island September Update
Welcome to Word Turtle Island's September update! Many improvements, bug fixes, and a new feature: word capture one letter at a time! + Word capture one letter at a time! Each letter you capture becomes a letter project…
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Word Turtle Island August Update
Refinements-focused full game update. Fixes such as an occasional navigation bug. Performance improvements, smaller download size, and dictionary update. Removed a potential spoiler from the start screen attract mode lo…
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Word Turtle Island July Update
About a month ago I quietly launched Word Turtle Island into early access. To get there was a 2.5 year path of developing and testing privately and at a few public events. Only a month since starting early access starte…
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