I can't recommend this one, sadly. It's a fun base concept, but it swings from way too easy to frustrating in an unfun way without ever actually touching the middle ground in between. The initial 'alphabet' puzzles always begin with the same letter, and are accompanied by a clue, which combine to make them almost trivial, but once you get past that there are neither initial starting letters nor clues, giving you no idea what words the game actually wants beyond a certain number of letters.

What follows after that isn't exactly 'challenging', but instead just aggravating, finding words in the grid only to be rejected by the game, guessing randomly at which of them might be correct. It essentially turns it into a small word-search without any actual word list to build off of, which just isn't fun, in my opinion.

Wordle 4 is easy but uninspiring. To start off, there were no categories given and you had to guess each word with the amount of letters they gave. This would actually be fun, however, if not for the fact that there were so many valid words that were not correct. It became so frustrating that I just rushed through the levels and did not find enjoyment in it at all. I have played through Wordles 1-3 and they just get weaker with every series, but this one just takes it too far. Wordles 1-3 had their own challenges with tough but satisfying categories to solve, but Wordle 4 was just easy words and doesn't even require me to THINK but to GUESS. I rarely dislike games and it brings me great sadness that I can't recommend this junk.

They gave up. They absolutely gave up. After the previous version which included some absolutely obscene categories, they went absolute achievement-spam no-brain shovelware with this one. They started with a theme of "starts with this letter"... and then gave up completely once they hit J and only gave one tiny puzzle each. And the "u" puzzle has a word that doesn't even start with u! Two words and they couldn't keep the theme. They only have ONE word on X. Oh yes, and during these puzzles they have icons below to tell you what the words are. And even then some of those icons are out of order. After that they do batches of puzzles based on having 3 3-letter words, 4 4-letter words, and 5 5-letter words. And the 3 letter words have a lot of issues with things like "ORB" in a circle that could just as easily be "ROB" etc. Though, truthfully, the 4 and 5 ones are probably the puzzles with the most thought put into them and best to solve, but that's not saying a whole lot. So it's not good on the GAME front. So how is it on the technical side? Loud volume that you can't turn down or mute, again. Reusing the same word in a few puzzles. And that's not even mentioning the blatant copyright infringement in their Steam library listing. I wonder if the developers of Hollow Knight would appreciate these devs using THEIR image to advertise this crappy game. I doubt they would.

Avoid this game. Where the devs had an interesting idea early on, that is ONLY getting attention now thanks to the much more popular New York Times owned puzzle (this game did come out before that, however). They don't deserve your money. Even on deep discount, this is TRASH.

Wordle 4 is a new iteration in the Wordle series of games. It is the shortest of the four games that have been published so far, as it can be finished in less than 2 hours. As a reminder, the original Wordle can be finished in around 5 hours, Wordle 2 in around 7 hours and Wordle 3 in 7 to 8 hours. It is the easiest of the lot too, as they changed the formula to the word grid they are using. Now there are 26 categories of words beginning by one of the letters of the alphabet (with a minimum of 1 level to a few levels depending on the letters), and 3 categories of numbered grids (3x3, 4x4, 5x5).

The GOOD: it is simple, very simple. In that sense, quite relaxing.
The BAD: it is so simple that there is not much challenge here... And it is short, very short.
The STRANGE: (1) Wordle 4 is much shorter than the other 3, but they heaped tons of achievements on it... Wordle 2 gave you 20, Wordle 3 gave you 30. Wordle 4 will give you 100... (2) The Wordle game has become all of a sudden an "Early Access Game"... So if you finish all these games, none of these achievements seems to appear as counting for the "Perfect Game" category anymore... Anyone can explain that to me????

In SHORT: I liked Wordle and Wordle 2 very much. These were decent, well worked little games. Wordle 3 was a disappointment as I explained in my review of that game. Wordle 4 is an even bigger disappointment. Unless you collect achievements on the cheap, this game offers the least entertainment and challenge of the whole series of Wordle games. Buy the first two, as they offer the best mix of qualities, and avoid this one (unless you buy the whole lot at a good discount). One last note: DO NOT BUY THE DLCs, their quality is VERY BAD and STEAM WILL NOT REFUND them (Playing the original Wordle means Steam considers you played the DLCs even if you didn't touch them...).

Wordle 3 kept the very basic word puzzle format and added a better hint system;

Wordle 4 adds:
. Annoying music with no mute or volume slider
. Borderline achievement spam
. Litteral icon of the word you're searching for, they show a banana icon so you look for banana in the grid LMAO. Braindead haha

PS: no trading cards for this 4th edition.

All the Wordle games are the same, so I'm going to post 1 review and basically copy&paste it the same to each that I happen to own.
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Wordle games are low effort, borderline trash games with minimal content that can be completed relatively quickly if you have the ability to spell simple words. Can you spell DOG? Congratulations, you're 99% done with the game already. Aside from a few obscure words that may take a moment to remember, you're just dragging your mouse across words to spell them.

Maybe, just maybe that has some minimilist puzzle value to you; but you know what it might have been worth? Less than $1. And for years on Steam, that's basically what these games cost. They were $1 and then would go on sale for even less. Under a dollar for a quick simple puzzle and easy achievements? It has its place for some people.

But these games have had their price raised to $20 each. It wouldn't be worth $20 for all of them, let alone each.

And worse than that they get more low effort with each new game. Each game has less words and even less "challenge" when there wasn't much to begin with. By Wordle 4 many of the chapters are a single puzzle and it even tells you what letter the words start with. It even breaks the value of how hints work (which would start by revealing letters from start to end) because you already knew the first letter due to the new (simpler, dumbed down) chapter headings.

As a series it went from low effort, low value puzzles at a cheap price to low effort, lazy, stupid puzzles for an even higher price.

And if you're curious why I have hours in it: 1. I play these dumb games for achievements. 2. You have to run the game for even longer to get the card drops, which gives it a few cents of meta-value in some weird twisted way.
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Bottom line: I can't recommend this junk unless you're intentionally buying it as a super cheap bundle just for the sake of stupid achievements. Just be aware of what you're getting. Whatever you paid, it probably won't be worth it.
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I am at a loss for words, and not in a good way. I've played the other parts in this series and enjoyed them. Each had a progression from easy to moderate to difficult. This one? Starts at the baby level AND STAYS THERE. Tiny box, just 4x4 letters. There is barely any challenge to begin with, yet two crutches are added: An icon practically gives you the answer, and you are made aware of the words' first letter from the outset, because instead of the ingenious categories this is how the levels are categorised now. That was still too easy for some, apparently - while you had to take a hint and pay for it through previously solved categories/puzzles if you got stuck in the earlier games, not so here: You always see the icon, and you always know the starting letter.

Recommended for children, right after they've learned to read. It clearly isn't meant for adults. If English is your second or third language, you might give it a try, and graduate to one of the others.

This is perhaps the worst one of the bunch but I have not played 5 and do not intend to based upon the feedback given there. There are hints early on in this game, which ruins the whole point of the game. If this is intended to teach English to non-native speakers it does a poor job at this as some words in this series are misspelled and some of the image clues are nonsensical or vague beyond comprehension (paper, for example). If it is indeed intended to be a supplemental foreign language aid it should promote as such & invest in a language editor. The music here, as many have already stated, is not enjoyable & cannot be muted nor lowered. I do also notice the discussions for games & it appears this one has little developer response which is not a good look. Overall, I do like the Wordle games but this one cannot be endorsed.

♥♥♥♥ music.

Too easy.

Too short.

100 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ achievements? Really bruh.

Disappointing after the previous three games, Wordle 4 drops the difficulty level significantly, with most puzzles becoming fairly trivial due to alphabetised categories and small icon clues for all words. The final puzzle sets do away with both of these issues, albeit only with relatively short words - but the problem then becomes that the game only allows for a single solution, without any flexibility to accommodate alternatives that should be perfectly valid, becoming frustrating as a result. Background music is arguably a nice touch as further UI polish, but it really needs the ability to toggle this and/or a volume slider. Overall, I can't really recommend this.