Horizons: The End Of Words is a clever space-exploration word game out now

For puzzle word game fans, this is quite a unique one! Horizons: The End Of Words is an open-world space-exploration word game. No static board here, you get to explore the galaxy while building up words on an empty grid. It's a really interesting spin on the genre and it just released with Linux support.

Check out the new release trailer:

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Developed by PUNKCAKE Delicieux who also made quite a few other smaller games and they all look really interesting like Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate, Shroomchitect, Stray Shot and more.

More about Horizons: The End Of Words:

Explore outer space with your word-finding skills.

You are dealt a handful of letters and must make words on an empty grid. Letters replenish with oxygen after you use them, and so you have to make new words, to find new oxygen. The grid might not be empty anymore but don't fret, it is as boundless as the universe itself. Oxygen on the other hand...

In Mission mode, set your own difficulty with 28 unique modifiers and try to beat the game by mining up resources.

In Journey mode, set out to explore the galaxy. Stop at various space stations to acquire and upgrade items to help you along on your wordy journey. Stretch your web of words as far as possible and discover as many planets as you can.

Plays entirely with the mouse. A run may last for a couple of hours. Features a save system.

You can also find the developer on Bluesky.