Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Lost Words is a 2D narrative adventure game where players move words to solve puzzles. The game features a story written by Rhianna Pratchett and ties the narrative into the gameplay in an unusual way, by…
Lost Words: Beyond the Page is an adventure developed by Sketchbook Games, released 27 March 2020 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Lost Words: Beyond the Page is
Lost Words: Beyond the Page is an adventure game developed by Sketchbook Games and released in 2020. It was published by Maximum Games. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, Google Stadia, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2019.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Lost Words is a 2D narrative adventure game where players move words to solve puzzles. The game features a story written by Rhianna Pratchett and ties the narrative into the gameplay in an unusual way, by having the player running on and interacting with words to solve puzzles.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Lost Words: Beyond the Page holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Lost Words: Beyond the Page launched on 27 March 2020, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Lost Words: Beyond the Page yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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