Feeling eloquent? Loquacious? Like you’ve swallowed a thesaurus? Then you’re in the market for cozy word games!

These three games below span different ways to experience word games. You’ve got your standard Scrabble-style game of creating words from a pool of letters, but also decoding glyphs into understandable words, and turning a simple letter into a multitude of other letters.

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3 cozy word games

Chants of Sennaar - cozy word game

Chants of Sennaar

Chants of Sennaar is an award-winning puzzle adventure game where you play as a Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. You’ll do so by decoding five ancient languages by observing, listening, and solving puzzles. By keeping track of every solved glyph in your notebook, you’ll be able to unravel a whole language and solve the mystery of how they’re all interconnected.

Steam

Word Factori

Word Factori is a word-building game where your one resource for creating other letters is “i.” You’ll feed the letter “i” through several factories that will bend, rotate, reflect, and merge your creations to create new letters. Those letters will be used to create a prompted word. Optimize your factories for greater return and find stickers to fill your scrapbook.

Steam

Word Factori

Word Play

Word Play

Word Play is a word game where you spell words from a collection of letters. By spelling words with higher-value letters and longer length, you’ll earn a bigger score. But, you can also increase your return by employing perks. Perk cards can modify, upgrade, and create unique rules that will help you earn an even greater reward on spelled words. There are difficulty levels as well as casual mode for everyone to enjoy.

Steam

If you don’t want to take my word for these recommendations, you can check out some of our other lists, like 3 cozy geology games and 3 cozy typing games.