Review: Word Tower for iPhone

If you’re a fan of Boggle, Scrabble, and other word-type games, you’ll love the latest twist on the traditional model that Word Tower delivers.

Word Tower is a game that presents itself like Tetris except that instead of falling blocks you have falling letters. Your goal is to combine the falling letters with the letters already on the game board and create words. Depending on the level you choose, the words can be three letters long or a minimum of four or more. The object is to finish the level before the letters stack in towers, hence the name Word Tower.

Gameplay is done by interacting with the game board and dragging the falling letters to their destination and then matching letters that are adjacent to each other to form words.

I’ve been playing the game for about a day now on and off and it does take some getting used to. Initially I started in Starter mode but found it to be a little too slow. I then went to Advanced and found it to be much more to my liking. Granted, in Advanced mode the letters fall fast, so you have to be on your toes or your game will be over before you know it.

The developer, Mac Martine, definitely did a great job at keeping the game player engaged. As I mentioned above, it starts off pretty easy but as you go on there are different tiles that fall like a star, snowflake, ice, and more that will do things like triple word points, interfere with word selection, blow up random tiles, and more. Also, as you progress the goal won’t be to eliminate 50 lettered tiles, like it is on the first level, but will instead be to match the key with the keyhole. The game also offers the ability to flip the gameboard over, which allows the letters to fall in the opposite direction, opening up new word creation possibilities.