A downloadable game for Windows and macOS

NASTY JACK'S BACK IN TOWN.

HE'S AT THE SALOON.

IT'S TIME TO SHOOT HIM AND HIS NASTY GANG... WITH A GUN.


Words Must Die is a story-game where you're playing a hypertext game, but it's also an FPS. And you're shooting the words with your gun. (Your FPS gun.) And in the story you're also shooting a gun-- an imaginary, narrative gun.

Listen: there's guns.

Words Must Die is a submission to the Pippin Barr Game Jam. It's based on the following Pippin Barr tweet:

░ ░ GAME IDEA
░ ░ ░
░ ░ ░ ░ YOU'RE A COWBOY
░ ░ ░
░ ░ AND YOU DONE WRONG
░ ░ ░
░ ░ ░ ░ SO YOU NOBLY RELOAD
░ ░ ░
░ ░ AND TRY TO DO RIGHT
— P░pp░n B░rr (@pippinbarr) July 18, 2016

We'd also like to thank Christine Love for her wonderful hypertext game Even Cowgirls Bleed, which heavily inspired this game.

Paper Nerds is:


"Words Must Die is what happens when a first person shooter and visual novel have a beautiful baby." - Kotaku

"It's certainly the best western-themed FPSIF I can think of." - RPS

"Congratulations!" - Mom



Update History

  • v1.2.1
    • Minor writing edits
  • v1.2
    • Updated final passes on music
    • Fixed player able to leave level bounds when saloon is hidden
  • v1.1
    • Added in-game pause menu (hit Escape)
    • Added more variety of saloon folks
    • Added Quit option to main menu
    • Fixed mouse cursor being active when starting the game
    • Fixed text in the beginning being difficult to read
    • Fixed some broken button links
    • Fixed ending music not looping properly



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StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Rating
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
AuthorsPaper Nerds, Laura Michet, The_Ulf, Brody Brooks, Kent Sutherland, PlungerGames
GenreShooter
Made withGIMP, Twine, Unity
TagsBoss battle, Comedy, Crime, FPS, hypertext, Physics, Story Rich, Western
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Download

Download
WordsMustDie_121_Mac.zip 53 MB
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WordsMustDie_121_Win.zip 50 MB

Comments

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gae was neat, a bit odd at first and a bit short but it was fun for what it was.

Thanks for giving it a look!

It would be really cool if you had a mode where you could shoot specific words out of a paragraph and rewrite the plot in a purposely destructive manner :)

Great game :D love how we players of your game want to start our own adventure

Hahaha thanks for playing!

anytime :D

What a ride that was! it was like a choose your own adventure game, but waaay better. Great work :D

Thanks so much for playing!!

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Je n'ai pu m’empêcher d'y jouer! Tellement original et bien écrit, j'ai bien ri :)

Merci d'avoir joué!

That was neat! I managed to miss some dialog choices I could have sworn I was aiming at, but it was a nice time overall.

Thanks so much for playing!!

That was an extraordinary great game! Not just that you created a innovative combination of two different game genres, but it was also fun to explore this weird western world. <3 That's storytelling that can hit the player right into the heart of oddity! :D Happily I wrote a praising article about it and also uploaded a short playthrough video. <3 Thank you very much for that!

Best wishes,
Sebastian

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I had so much fun playing this! Its a really cool concept!

Thank you!!

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This was hilariously fun :) Definitely a unique experience!

Thank you!! Thanks for playing it!

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Really fun game. Made no sense at points. And that was the best part of it!


I cant wait for your future games!

- Seafood

Thank you!!

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I absolutely loved this game! I couldn't stop laughing! The text in the game is hilarious and I really enjoyed the narrative! Thank you so much for this and congrats on finishing it!

Ah man, thanks so much!! I loved how into it you got with this play-through haha

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Gotta' love a bit of cowboy IF, even though Twine meant a whole different thing to them back then.


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Bahaha this is weird and wonderful! Thank you!!

Deleted 7 years ago
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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the game :D

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Ahhhhh this is excellent!!

Windows download link doesnt work.

This seems to be happening sporadically for some people. I've added mirror links to the bottom of the description. Hope that helps!

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Really cool game! :D I guess there's several endings to it as well? :)
Anyways, here's my Let's Play of it! :D

Stay Rad Everybody!!
/RadiCarl

Thank you!! We appreciate it!

I should be thanking you! :D It was great! :)