Pressed For Words

I used to love this game, I hate the updates they made in May 2026. Game is way too slow to play now , I will uninstall it after this review and search for another game. The rolling over of letters takes forever and is annoying, the constant pop up reminders if I type too fast , instead of just letting me play. The button to close & start another game is gone, you have to now go through the settings, no thanks! Do not like anything about this new version of the game.

I LOVED this game. I have been playing it for more than a decade. The update that was installed yesterday has removed the button that lets you end a game without having to wait for the timer to run out. What was the point of removing it? Sometimes I will be super stuck on a game and it was nice to quickly end it so I could see which words I missed and then start another game. Now I have to wait for the timer to run all the way down before it’ll let me start a new one? This game was super outdated but that genuinely what I ENJOYED about it. So many word games make you wait while coins stack, scorecards get boosted, cards flip over to reveal their other side, etc… I liked that this one you could just PLAY and PLAY and there was nothing to interrupt it in between each set. My dad used to say “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” There was nothing wrong with this game but the app developers felt the need to tinker with it anyway. I’m probably going to uninstall it now. Taking away that simple control didn’t improve a single thing on the dev end, as far as I can tell. And it wrecked the user experience for me entirely.

I love this game but the ads are a problem. I would gladly pay to get rid of the ads but don’t see a way to do that. There are ads that come from one particular game that when you X out of the ad it takes you straight to the location to get the game. At the very least, this glitch needs to be fixed. This could easily become my favorite game if I could just buy it to get rid of the ads.