Each round of a longer play session involves a plane taking off to one of twenty recognizable real world cities, and while the actual location is just a nice little diorama of some recognizable landmarks and appropriate structures with some city specific music playing, the name of the city is the most important part. To get the letters involves winning a word game, but the letters you get for a victory tie into the game’s world traveling theme. In the disc version of the game, up to 6 players will compete against each other to assemble their own unique four letter word only they know thanks to it being displayed on their device’s screen. The Wordhunters app, which currently seems to be available on the iOS store but not the Google Play Store, is best served as the controller for the actual Wordhunters game. These have various difficulties and goals to shoot for but are very simplistic and probably wouldn’t even hold your attention better than grabbing an app with similar ideas but less time pressure. Anagram Solver is a simple challenge to take a set of scrambled letters and rearrange them into a recognizable English word and Find the Letters shows you a word you then need to assemble from a set of scrambled letters in a small time frame. Wordhunters is purely a multiplayer experience, meaning if you can’t get a few people together it’s a disc without anything to do, but the app that you download to play it does have two games you can play on your phone even if you don’t own the game.
Wordhunters is part of the PlayLink series of games, meaning that its multiplayer is not accessed through owning multiplayer PlayStation 4 controllers but instead pulling out a smart device and using that as your tool for playing the game. They can certainly be done as a group and some word games like Boggle and Scrabble are competitive board games, but Wordhunters takes the formulas for even the solo word games and tries to retool them into a party game you can play through your phone. When I think of word games like word searches, crosswords, and anagrams, they always seem more like solitary affairs meant for a person to ponder over as a way to pass the time.
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