A word wheel that wants to take you round the world, one postcard at a time
King of Words pairs a simple letter wheel with painted backdrops of Marrakesh and Milford Sound, and asks you to spell your way between them.
By Sunny Patel, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The pitch for King of Words is disarmingly simple: spin a wheel of letters, spell what you can, watch a crossword grid slowly fill in behind a very nice painting of somewhere you'd rather be. The screenshots show a small ring of six letters sat over a crossword-style scaffold of empty squares, the kind of thing you'll recognise if you've ever played a Wordscapes-adjacent puzzler on a train. The wheel itself is standard, but the backdrops aren't. One shot sits you in front of Milford Sound, waterfall and all, another puts a Koutoubia minaret behind the grid in what's labelled Marrakeş, and a...