# literally – word game — user reviews

> 26 indexed App Store user reviews of literally by Oleksandr Kozlov, rated 4.50/5 from 499 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/literally-word-game/id6448051011/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/literally-word-game/id6448051011.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 374 · 4★ 63 · 3★ 34 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 15

## Newest reviews (6 of 26)

### 5/5 — One of the best word games

*2023-06-13*

Absolutely fantastic word game. It’s so refreshing to see one that’s not just how many words you can make from 5 letters

It’s fast paced but if you’re pretty good at word games you can keep it going for quite a while. 

Story mode is great and I love the challenges you need to complete. 

Please keep this game going and adding story levels.

 Would love to see timed variation too

### 5/5 — Ofkdnn

*2023-06-10*

Nfndhsu

### 4/5 — Good Game, Poorly Designed Story Mode

*2023-06-06*

Very relaxing word game with simple interface and controls. However, the story mode is poorly designed as each level has a given objective but the game doesn’t display a progress meter on how close you are to completing the objective. The level also does not end when the objective is complete.

**Developer response:** Hi! Thank you for bringing this idea up. I've just released an update 1.0.2, where you can see a progress meter in the story mode. Still, the level will not end automatically when you receive 3 stars, and you can do it by tapping FINISH button from pause.

### 5/5 — Great game when bored.

*2023-06-02*

When I’m bored, I enjoy picking up my phone and messing around on a game for a few minutes. This is one of those games that help me pass the time but also helps me get smarter while I’m playing it. I’d recommend this to people like me who have some time to waste. There are no obnoxious ads, and it’s fun. Overall a really good game! Can’t wait to witness what it becomes in the future. :)

### 5/5 — This is a great new game

*2023-05-26*

I like this game because it’s tricky and trilling so far there has been no ads and there is many levels happy playing!!!

### 5/5 — Great new game

*2023-05-11*

I enjoy playing it.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Kinda fun but buggy

*2025-06-15*

Not all the challenges can be achieved which is annoying. Developers are aware of these errors and have yet to do anything about it. Lame

### 2/5 — Speed more than word game

*2026-05-16*

I really enjoy word puzzles and I don’t necessarily need to take my sweet time about it but I found this game somewhat annoying after a short time. Tutorial is a bit rudimentary: you can use letters in any order or sequence but they don’t really explain that. I didn’t have trouble passing levels, scooted right along every one I tried. The problem is I enjoy finding words and patterns and all that but the timer element makes any typo or mistake a hard LOSS and therefore a different vibe. I want to think not stress. I imagine there’s smarter folks out there that can bust out massive words using all the available letters at a rapid pace but what I found was the game basically motivates you to think smaller. Why waste the extra second seeing if I have enough letters for ‘anaphylaxis’ when I’d be better off busting LAX, PAN, LAPIS, HAY, etc and keeping more options open? Perhaps I’m just slow but going off past experience I’m really not (in this one particular aspect of existence anyway). 
It’s a speed game that uses words. Not so much a word game. Haste beats vocabulary on this one, so not what I’m after.

### 3/5 — Ahh

*2025-10-28*

Instructions stutter for me.

### 3/5 — Disappointed

*2024-01-19*

Some of the milestones are vague and don't work clearly

The rise of advertisements is saddening and really off putting

I am trying out other new word games to replace but in the mean time I'm playing less and less

### 3/5 — Nauseating

*2023-09-22, version 1.0.4*

Why are the letters constantly pulsing. It’s annoying and nauseating. It adds nothing to the game other than to be off putting.

### 3/5 — Needs to update its dictionary.

*2023-08-17*

If doesn’t have words such as receipt, recipe. It tried to say that the work “token” wasn’t in its vocabulary.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback, but I should admit that game dictionary contains such words "receipt", "recipe" and "token". Could you please contact developer email literali.game@gmail.com, so I could try to investigate that issue?

### 3/5 — ?

*2023-06-29*

As a literature major, I’m blowing through this game with 150-200+ words per game. That being said, it isn’t properly tracking my statistics or unlocking missions based on my used words. There’s also a section in my menu that is fully not in English (perhaps Russian? just a guess) I think this has potential to be a great game if you work out some of the kinks!

**Developer response:** Hi, pochaccu!
Unfortunately, I can't reproduce an issue with statistics. May I ask you to contact with me via email literali.game@gmail.com?

### 4/5 — Game is great, but an odd bug

*2023-10-20*

I’ve noticed that everytime I get a word, the whole grid gets bigger and then falls back down to the screen, and the tiles all glitch a little. For some reason this has only started happening since I updated to ios17. Other than that, it’s pretty a pretty good game

**Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback! Could you by any chance capture a video of this issue and send it to email literali.game@gmail.com?

### 4/5 — Missed opportunity

*2023-08-02, version 1.0.4*

Missed opportunity to call the game Literally - a name game

### 4/5 — fun word game

*2023-07-16*

This is a good game especially since you can play it very fast paced if you can think of a lot of words quickly
Although sometimes I get characters that aren’t from the English language like a c with a line in it? What do these mean

**Developer response:** Hi! Thanks for a feedback. May I ask to send a screenshot of such character on the email literali.game@gmail.com?

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Love

*2026-04-08*

So fun to play with friends

### 5/5 — Fantastic new game!

*2025-04-27*

This is a rare find: really fun gameplay, very simple yet challenging for someone who has played all the major word games. No ads, nice interface. Brilliant!

### 5/5 — Lots of fun

*2024-11-12*

This game is very original and keeps you on your toes. Great for the fast thinking challenge!

### 5/5 — Played all 200 levels. Was a great stress reliever.

*2023-10-16*

Enjoyed aiming for 3 stars before moving on. Also appreciated there were no ads or gimicks to distract from the purpose of the game. Helped me relax when I just needed a brain challenge, but was physically tired.  Perfect to play while trying to fill asleep to keep my mind busy and just breathe.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the feedback!

### 5/5 — Fun way to pass time

*2023-10-05*

Really entertaining for passing time. I like that there’s a limited number of achievements, but then I also enjoyed it so much that I’m sad I finished them all. Wish there was random achievements to attempt when doing practice or rush mode so I’d continue to feel motivated to play after finishing story mode. But otherwise, still love it.

### 5/5 — Bug from translation?

*2023-09-24*

TO DEVELOPER: When I get pretty far is there is a character that shows up that looks like a circle with a line underneath it. It doesn’t work with any English words so I wonder if it’s leftover from the previous non-English version? Or did I miss what that character is supposed to do? (It looks like a lollipop with a very short stick)

**Developer response:** I guess it's more like a font issue, and you're talking right now about a letter Q =)
I will think about updating this font in one of the future updates, thanks for the feedback!

### 5/5 — such a cool game

*2023-09-14, version 1.0.4*

this is an awesome word game, simple but really fun, lots of levels to complete and challenges to do. also not many ads which is really nice. thanks to whoever made this game- I’ve already spent a lot of time playing it and it’s quite relaxing too :)

### 5/5 — Really cool concept

*2023-08-09*

It’s fun with the right amount of pressure build-up and skill. Thanks for making this game!

**Developer response:** Thank you for playing!

### 5/5 — fun

*2023-07-21, version 1.0.4*

unique concept, this game is very enjoyable as it puts you under pressure to think of words you might not even know existed - i also like how there's an "easy mode" that you can enable
i would like it if i was able to look at all the words i have already discovered, and possibly an ingame dictionary?

### 5/5 — Super Fun!

*2023-07-18*

Fun and challenging game with just enough pressure to keep you on your toes.  You can tell the developer put a lot of thought into the design.  There’s also a sweet “celebration” after completing all of the games.

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