Last updated on January 31st, 2026 at 06:20 pm
Backwords Game – Word Game Review
Backwords Game is a Word/Entertainment/Family game from MFX Studios, first launched in 19th November 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Backwords Game Stand Out
Backwords Game is a delightful and engaging game that involves guessing words in reverse. Select a word and send the recording to your friend. Your friend will listen to the word played in reverse and then replicate exactly what they hear. Subsequently, their recording will be reversed and played forwards, enabling them to hear and guess the original word! Mastering this game requires a sharp ear and quick thinking.
You can play with distant friends using Game Center or free play passing the device between friends.
Good luck!
This Word game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Backwords Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Backwords Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Backwords Game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We cant even get in and our friend got it and she cant even hear it.
When we play this app, it reminds us of this other app that doesnt work. So we searched for another app and found the best app Ive seen ever. BackwordsGame. Love it.
Great game to play with friends.
We have really enjoyed it so far. None of the issues some have complained of. Playing with the family tonight.
4 stars because it's a really fun game. We would give it 5 if they gave this app the ability to play over text or messenger. Fun still.
We played this game in the past and LOVED it. But we got busy, didn't have time to play, & deleted it. We just redownload bc we wanted to share with a friend. He downloaded it as well. HOWEVER, NEITHER of us can create matches. It only allows pass n play. . Very disappointed. Please let us know if this changes.
A few years ago us and our sister played it so we thought it would be fun to get it on our phone when we just remembered about it. But it wont let us ipen the app.
So we saw this you tuber (EventubeTV) do a backwards challenge with this app so we wanted to try it but once we tried to listen to our recording to make sure it was the right word we couldnt hear a thing! Then we thought ok maybe thats not how the game works but when we tried to listen to our opponents word we still heard nothing even when we turned up the volume as loud as we could! So then we ended the game over and over again and even read the the instructions again but still we couldnt hear a thing! But idk if it the app or our iPad but Ive never had this prob before so Im %99.9 sure it not our iPad! So we were very disappointed that we couldnt play this game! So only 2 star sorry.
We didnt like the game.. The only way you can play with friends is when you are with each other and you have to do the pass and play. We were wanting a game that lets us play with our friends that are far away. The game is good quality though.
Its pritty bad It installs a virus. And it wouldn't even let us play. Stuped game.
This doesnt work anymore it never comes on it just comes back on so we deleted it it happend to our sister too.
So we were watching a video called backwards word challenge and we thought it would be fun to get the app but when we got it….IT WOULD NOT LET ME USE IT!!!!! So we kept redownloading and redownloading but we still couldn't open it! its just not worth it…..
This app just crashes everytime we try to open it. We have up to date software on an iPhone XS and it just crashes instantly we have downloaded and deleted it and re downloaded it several times to no avail.
Fun while it lasted, but now the app closes as soon as we click on it.
So us and our younger brother was tryna find a fun app. But when we said Hi we couldnt hear anything! When our brother didnt it it said something. But we dont recommend it! We hate it we deleted it. Tell us if they fixed it. Its not right.
Can not play with distant friends.
How hard can it be to make an app exactly like the original? Groups can play collectively where the recording is reversed and played back for everyone to listen, the people imitate and then their recording is reversed again??? Jesus effervescent christ.
Made us sound like jacob sartorious smh.
The Multiplayer thing won't work we tried multiple times. Wouldn't recommend.
Do not get it is one of the stupidest things we have ever played.
We would not recommend this app because all it does is repeat what you say Back and it makes no sense.
Such an original, fun game. We wish you could hear your recording agin once you know what the word is so that you can say "oooooh, why didn't we get that?!" Just work out the bugs and it will be tons of fun.
This is a good game and we think its funny to hear ourselves back words we give this game 5 Stars because whoever made this game is awesome because its amazing to hear you're self back words that's why we gave this 5 stars.
This game is awesome! So fun to play with family and friends who are far away.
It's fun but it won't let us buy the full version.
Who else came here because of Trevor Moran and Kian's Youtube Vid.
Okay, so we record a word, it sends, they say it backwards, and we guess our own word.
It kept glitching and says we wasn't saying words when we really was. DONT GET! IT IS A WASTE OF TIME.
It's so much fun when it's free play, but when it's versus there's a lot of glitches. We'll listen to the sent audio then go to record our part, then when we try to listen to what the other person sent, it's our recording instead of theirs. Fix the glitches pleaseeeee.
This was a great fun and enjoyable game for about 30 minutes after the first complete round when us and our wife would send each other game requests and when the other one would reply it would send this back to round one and would not let us listen to what the other player said. The game has a number of glitches and is becoming more and more frustrating to use. We refuse to play it until they update it but we'll keep it.
We think this app could be great, but it constantly freezes and closes. It has serious problems syncing with Game Center. Please fix this "tihs".
This app is awful. We said the word hello, standing up straight and loudly, but no matter how many words we tried it couldn't understand a thing! We would give it 0 stars if we could.
It won't read our voice at all..it seemed really fun but it just won't read our voice and we have kept it to keep trying to get it to work but it won't.
We wish we did not have to even give this one star because it keeps saying we have no voice recognition and then we have too many failed attempts even though we are saying the word clearly so do not get this app it is a waste of time #MAD.
We are trying to play this with our friend and it keeps glitching and making us send a recording over and over again. It is also really annoying that you have to pay to have more than one game.
It's stupid to have to pay for it like ok a dollar but for something that doesn't work and can't use like phone numbers to play with friends not worth it.
We just got it for fun but it's making us mad. It won't work. It won't read what we said. We don't like it at all.
Every time we record a word it doesn't read it.
We mean the game is alright it is very confusing we actually do not know who the message is being sent to if we were a judge and we had to say if this app is good or not we would say no to the person who created this app.
Worst app ever every time it says sorry didn't catch that we suggest DONT GET THIS APP.
The best app yet we've been waiting for a app like this.
This game is awesome when your playing free play but when your playing versus it is awful.On versus you get stuck on the screen so we deleted and got it again so we could start over. But if your looking for a game that's fun with your friends you should totally get it. We got this game a week ago and it is sooooooooo much fun.
We were so excited for this app, but it crashed after we recorded our first word. We've tried so many times and it keeps crashing aw :(.
We couldn't even get this game to start!!! Don't buy it! It'll just waste your time.
Only problem is that to play online unlimited is .99 cents but it's fun otherwise. (By the way if you're having trouble with it recognizing words try turning the recognized down to 70 or 50.
If we could give this app less than 1 star we would! CANT DO A THING!!!! Let alone recognize any word other than hello, which still takes about 30 tries.
This game is terrible. It will not recognize our voice on any words we try. Such a waste of time. Do not download this game.
We can't do anything on this crappy app.
This app is sooo cool. It makes makes listening to backwards things sooo much easier.
The app keeps closing when we try to record a word. Please fix this issue.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.1
- Size: 12.30 MB
- iOS: 18.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: MFX Studios
Last updated: 30th December 2025 | Genre: Word, Entertainment | Developer: MFX Studios