About the Game

Starts as Boggle, ends as Schrödinger - Cursed Words is a roguelike adventure about writing words... for a while…until words become NUM83R5, or ♔♘♙, or the infinite void.
Each run is shaped by four pillars: your Character, your Sticker upgrades, your Stamp loadout and the consumable Tiles you bring into each fight. Every attempt becomes its own cursed experiment.


Blaze a path through cursed bosses and uncover secret items and challenges that completely change the way the game is played. How about all consonants? Maybe all vowels? How about no letters at all?
A whopping 300 stickers and stamps to boost your scores and break the game
11 characters with dramatically different playstyles
20 bosses that’ll try to sabotage your runs, or can be manipulated into multiplying your score even higher
26 unique challenges that completely change the rules of the game

And if all that wasn't enough, mastering each Character's Pin and playstyle is only the beginning. You can prove it wasn't just a fluke by taking on the Challenge Crowns, where Score Targets are bigger, Shops are more expensive, and you'll have to really break the rules if you want to succeed; or you can take on Quests, specific modifiers to the game's rules that will really put your skills to the test...
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
v4.5 comes with plenty of new fixes and a balance change or two, but more importantly, it comes with a few new features that have been often requested. Have a read of the Additions, if nothing else!
Firstly, when submitting cursed words, Michael's chosen word submission is now saved and shown wherever you can see that submitted word. We went back and forth on this for a long time, and there are very good reasons we didn't put this in at release. In fact, originally Michael wasn't even going to tell you the word you submitted. This is a discussion I find interesting enough that I honestly might make a whole video about... But I digress, enough people have asked that we're doing it, but note that it's a setting you need to enable, so go check your game settings if you want it.
Secondly, the in-game menu now shows a Retry button so you can begin a new run with the current character without needing to go via the Character Select menu.
Finally, Escape will open and close settings menus whenever they are available.
⭐ Patch Notes v4.5
ADDITIONS
Retry button to begin a new run with the same character without returning to the Character Select menu
An opt-in setting to show the "real" words you submitted in your Word History, game wrap-ups and Stats menu
Settings menu can be opened and closed with the Escape key
New dictionary words: JANK and UNEQUIP
CHANGES
Shaved Ice buffed to +0.2
Shield works with Purple tiles
Bullseye is now marked as an Elite quest
Television and Twinkle Toes work in RAM
Items which consider submitted words (e.g. Bar Chart) correctly apply priority when in RAM
Fixed Haunted House removing tile colours
X appears over items on tiles in On Cooldown quest
Beefeater, Bento Box, Bicycle, Slide and Smart Shirt reworded
Michael's Book is ignored by Sewing Needle
Flamingo compatible with Tin of Beans/Chromatic Aberration
Made Down Under clearer about being a x -3 multiplier, not an x - 3 score
REMOVALS
Removed JAP(S) from dictionary due to racial slur implications
Foil items do not appear in the shop until you have upgraded your first sticker to level 3
Hey folks, a patch to sort out some recently frequently reported bugs has just been uploaded!
⭐ Patch Notes v4.4
ADDITIONS
Items which look for poker hands have had their descriptions updated to include a more explicit description of what counts as that poker hand
CHANGES
VOID tile scoring has been reworked; the negative modifier is always applied last after all other changes to BASE SCORE
Fixed Nat-H4 not unlocking on stage 6
Fixed beating a Quest with a character unlocking Crowns for them
Fixed Jokers which are scattered over chess pieces retaining some chess behaviour
Cable Car changed to upgrade stickers in your word on submission (thereby removing the consumable tile sticker bug)
Fixed Juice Box and Bucket sometimes overwriting their own scattered cards
Fixed absolutely no typos whatsoever
Told one lie
Many of these bugs had lots of reporters so I will avoid specific shout-outs and probablly accidentally missing people out. Thank you everyone for taking the time to make reports!
Thank you to all of you who took the time to report bugs and share your suggestions. We see them all, there are many discussions within the team, and as I'm sure you've seen, we act on a ton of it. The task list is big right now so our planned changes will come in multiple patches.
The main thing to call out in this patch are a change and a fix to end-of-game stuff. End-of-game meaning something you won't have come across until at least having the 6 main characters unlocked. If you aren't confident you know what this is then avoid spoilers for the first Addition and first Change listed.
⭐ Patch Notes v4.3
ADDITIONS
Completing stage 5 is now considered a win even if you aren't done yet; you will be granted relevant unlocks
System for retroactively granting the reward for having beaten a zero-Crown run with a character
CHANGES
Fixed an intermittent end-of-game issue where the final grid
was occasionally not solvable, or at least auto-solvable by the button
Nat-H4 is unlocked earlier; it now requires 3 Purple Crowns instead of 6 (or, if you already have 3 Purple Crowns, she will unlock the next time you earn a Purple Crown)
Erupting Volcano description corrected, and made slightly cheaper
Jokers are considered Face Cards
Poker Face description is clearer about requiring cards
Some fixes to when tiles wobble (some currencies and cards not wobbling at correct times)
Safeguarding around failure to find Steam ID to prevent save files disappearing
Graceful fail out (i.e. no game crash) if firewall/security settings prevent the game from generating config files
⭐ Patch Notes v4.1
ADDITIONS
Add accessibility toggle to turn off Reroll reminder pulse
CHANGES
Cactus tiles in Sandy boss fight unaffected by Mirror Ball
Fixed older save files not being compatible with current game
Bones unlocked automatically on load if you have previously won with Sam in the demo
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Uploaded Jun 16, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
Cursed Words.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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