Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 04:56 pm
W.E.L.D.E.R. – word game – Education Game Review
W.E.L.D.E.R. – word game is a Education/Word/Puzzle game from My Evil Twin Games Corp, first launched in 2nd April 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 5,873+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes W.E.L.D.E.R. – word game Stand Out
W.E.L.D.E.R. has twice received Apple's top feature, awarded the Game of the Week and Game of the Day! The game reach #1 in the app charts thanks to all your support! It's the perfect word game for any new iPhone or iPad!
W.E.L.D.E.R. is the ultimate combination of match-3 and crosswords games.
Weld words in the word machine! Create clever combos and multiply your score using gem and gold tiles.
Increase your vocabulary using the in-built dictionary – discover definitions of words you never even knew existed!
Earn powerful special abilities like Group, Reverse, and Jump Swaps, and complete particularly tricky moves with Broken and Hot tiles. Potentially unlimited gameplay!
UNRIVALED FEATURES
• Play against your friends! Compete against your Game Center friends or random opponents in two-player matches.
• Adds addictive word game play to classic pattern matching.
• Use special reverse, group, and jump swaps to weld words and clear broken tiles.
• Use multiplier tiles to score more points and gain more swaps!
• Bonus modes include Sandbox (infinite swaps), Broken Challenge (clear those tough Broken tiles!), and Hot Challenge (drop those Hot tiles!).
• Undo your last move and have another go!
• Use "Apocalypse Swap" to wipe the board once per level and get a new set of tiles.
• Combine multipliers in a single word for thousands (millions!) of points and tons of swaps!
• Game Center features include over 50 achievements, competitive score comparison and even a Palindrome Ranking.
• Use cloud saving to transfer a game in progress from your iPad to your iPhone!
• Look up words you form via the built-in iOS dictionary.
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS
W.E.L.D.E.R. offers an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly starting at the end of your free trial. W.E.L.D.E.R. Premium is offered at $4.99USD per month after a 7 day free trial, and W.E.L.D.E.R. Daily Gigawatts is offered at $9.99USD per month without a free trial. Your W.E.L.D.E.R. subscription will automatically renew at the end of each month and your credit card will be charged automatically through your iTunes account. You can turn off auto-renew at any time during your free trial from your iTunes account settings and your account will not be charged. After your auto-renewing monthly subscription begins, you can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings but refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period.
Please note: players who have migrated from legacy W.E.L.D.E.R. to our new app will retain all the same features without the need for a subscription. If you find this is not the case, please contact support. Thanks for playing!
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This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, W.E.L.D.E.R. – word game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd May 2023
Recent improvements include:
Support for iOS 15 and the new iPad Mini.
Download & Availability
W.E.L.D.E.R. – word game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get W.E.L.D.E.R. – word 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 had an issue related to the revised version of this excellent game. The developer interacted with us personally and made sure that the app was functioning perfectly for us.
We had a gigawatts issue and he quickly fixed the problem.
Originally we bought this due to the steampunk vibe, and because we love challenging word games. The main game has basic moves explained. We enjoyed winning all of the levels twice! Now we're working on the broken tile challenge, and we can't find an explanation of what to do with blank broken tiles. They don't move; they don't act like blank tiles in other word games, where they can become any letter. Once we get to level 11, we can use all the other tiles, but we can't win the level because of the blank ones. Could you please add a demo or explanation in words? Thanks.
White on white, seriously we cant see what Im writing But know this:we are still upset at the change implementation Any idea when we can recover our Gigawatts.
Quit begging us for a review. Go away. Get lost.
We have been playing this game religiously for years… It was great. Now we wake up one day and there are commercials, and ads trying to get us to sign up for a $5 per month SUBSCRIPTION?! Dude… The game isnt THAT good. Ill just delete it and find another.
One of our favorite word games. Special tiles keep it interesting.
This game is lots of fun. Its very challenging and makes you think. Been playing for several years. Would recommend it to anyone who loves challenging games.
Been playing the game for years and still love it. Best word puzzle game on iOS. However- DEVS! – It used to have a lookup function for actual definitions for a lot of words. Not all words or the most obscure, but if there was no in-game def, it gave you an option to look it up in a browser. That doesnt work anymore. It was cool, and you should fix it.
Ads pop up randomly, cannot make them go away unless you pay 4.99 monthly. It might be worth a one time purchase but $59. Annually is ridiculous.
Where can we download the original version.
This game is why they invented the iPad. Ive been playing it for years and its what we reach for having coffee, watching late TV, or when we (used to) fly! It keeps you thinking and figuring out cause/effect and broad dynamics! Get it – youll love it.
Welder is the most satisfying word game available. No bothersome ads or childish gimmicks. Ive been playing it for around 15 years and still love it.
Been playing this for years and while so many games come and go on iOS, this is by far a top game ever for us. If you like word games, this is a must-play.
We owe W.E.L.D.E.R many hours of stress relief and quiet enjoyment over the last 5+ years. We only play the classic mode though. We like their simple uncluttered approach and a lack of intrusive advertisements that plague a lot of other wordplay games.
Love these games. Been playing for six years and it challenges your brain every day. Thanks for these great games. This game is the best to keep your brain alive and working.
It is a great game and it is add free.
Ive played this game for years and it never gets boring.
We think Ive been playing this game for nearly 10 years and truly truly love it. That said, we waste so much game time hitting the menu button and checking to see if your dictionary will let us use a word that is in virtually every other dictionary on the planet! We play the game in the more invested. We are in our score and maintaining forward progress, the more we know we absolutely must toggle between the two screens. At the end of our last game, we scored in the top 1% globally. Clearly, we love this game and Im giving you all five stars, but the more we become a serious player the more frustrated we are about this issue. Ive read peoples frustrations with the upgrades, so we will not be getting those we just really love a better dictionary.
This is such an intriguing game. It takes a little practice to get the hang of it, but once you do, youre hooked! Sometimes we dont have enough games in Game Center with our friends, so we have three or four games playing simultaneously.
Best word game ever! Ive been playing since the beginning.
Have had this game for quite a while, but it never gets old. Starts out really easy but each level gets harder. We love word games and this one stands the test of time.
Latest versions have been very smooth. Love the daily hint to add to strategy, wish we had more friends to play.
We like W.E.L.D.E.R. And play a little every day. The possible plays on every turn are infinite. You can go as slow or as fast as you like. No time limit. There are strategies to explore. You can continue on the level you just finished.
5 bucks a month?! Ridiculous. We refuse to abide by yet another subscription model.
Issue where a tile is selected but isnt highlighted. Results in losing swaps because when we select the intended tile, we lose a regular or jump swap with a tile we didnt select but the game has as selected but hasnt highlighted.
Should be a great game. But the dictionary used apparently contains archaic words, Scottish words, archaic Scottish words with alternate spellings. It does not contain many plurals, US slang. It does contain lots of British slang Its hard to know how much a word will actually count as the values of letters apparently depends on when they were added A game for US people with a generally recognized US dictionary would improve this game, a lot.
It has some peculiarities. If you weld a word that the game doesnt recognize, theres a method for reporting it. Pretty sure no one looks at it as Ive submitted a few that are recognized as words elsewhere (marm for instance), but no changes in the game. Also cant find the rules anywhere, so its hard to know how to play the variations.
Truly the best mobile word game ever made! But asking $5 every month to remove the CONSTANT FREAKING ADS is ridiculous.
We would give this a 5+ star rating but was never able to get our Gigawatts restored after the migration. We contacted developer couple of times. The instructions never worked. Still play only as two player. We used to play solo very frequently. Lost our enthusiasm when we lost our Gigawatts.
Was one of our favorite games. We paid the monthly subscription fee for ad free play. Today when we started playing there were ads every few minutes.
New iPhone acquired yesterday. Yes, the new phone is signed in on iCloud. W.E.L.D.E.R. Doesnt seem to be able to find it. We played the game on our old phone yesterday morning, before heading to the Apple Store for the new iPhone. Im sure Im missing a setting somewhere, but Ive looked everywhere we can think to look. Help.
We love this game, but we are not okay with having a single level repeatedly interrupted by ads between moves. Bummer.
This game is really fun, but we find the need for a subscription service to be really infuriating as it severely limits the amount of features available to people who cant afford it. We highly suggest just making this a paid app with no subscription service.
We wrote this same review about two years ago, after there were a series of updates on our iPhones & iPads. The app developer is slow to update this app. Just like in the past, we are playing the same turn over and over again, and have to constantly sign in and sign out of Game Center. Sometimes the game just spins and spins, not recognizing the turn just completed. Rebooting the device doesnt help either. As Yogi Berra once said, its dj vu all over again! Please update the app! Thank you,.
Uninstalled it because all of a sudden it starts displaying some other name not ours. What happened to our game? This was several months ago. We had played under that name for years and loved it.
Get rid of the childish nonsense.
We like the game but the scoring is absurd and changes throughout. Also tiles will jump for no reason, which is frustrating The board does get more difficult which would be challenging if it wasnt mostly having no vowels or seven Us. It is obvious they want to sell stuff, but why would anyone care when the challenges are poorly thought out we would rate much higher if the glitches were gone. Most word games dont challenge vocabulary which this does by offering definitions. We cant care about a game that often jumps tiles when you reopen a game.
Used to be greatnow there are ads every minute or so.
Ive had the original WELDER for years and loved it. We were unable to migrate at the time that occurred and stopped playing. We tried again today with the same migration issue. We receive the verification code but am unable to input it as the keyboard doesn't appear and we cannot write the code into the space provided. We would love to continue playing if we can complete a successful migration. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, we downloaded the updated app but cannot go beyond level 7 without subscribing even though we purchased the original version. Will we still need to subscribe if and when a migration is successful.
We like the old legacy game and the migration tool never allowed us to type when it got to the entry pop up. So, we lost all our gigawatts. That was fine, but just got presented with an ad mid-round so this game got deleted off our phone.
One of the few word games that doesn't have silly cartoons characters. We turn off the sound. The problm is that tiles will erratically jump around and even disappear which is annoying. We don't take the scoring too seriously as random luck effects performance. As you proceed there are fewer vowels or muliples of one letter. We wish the same effort to create ways for the player to pay money would be given to the annoying glitches.
So even if we dont want to pay, for no ads, it wont let us progress to the next level. This is just wrong.
We play this occasionally, but then move on for months. Id gladly pay to buy the game. But a monthly fee? No way. The game is now unplayable due to the number of ads.
Almost every time we go to dictionary to check spelling, and then go back to game, we touch a tile to move but the tile JUMPS!! We lose a jump! Some times we touch a tile and it jumps completely out of game (into outer space?). Some times we touch a tile in upper left corner and that tile wont move (freezes). Im tired of losing points due to work needing to be done on your game so above doesnt happen. It makes your customer (us) unhappy. Sincerely, Jackie.
We have the legacy version. Tried migration multiple times to no avail. We get a code sent by SMS but no ability to enter code in the app (all greyed out). The new version is unplayable with all the ads. Terrible experience.
We still enjoy legacy better than this one. Too many ads now. Also the migration didnt work. Update: and now they want to charge us to go past Level 7. Dropped this to one star. This used to be our favorite Apple game. Really sad.
We played the old free and ad free version and love this game. We get that people want to make some money off of this so pushed us all to new version – thats ok. But the number and intrusiveness of the ads is just greedy and ridiculous and $60/year is just too much for ad free. Need other options to play, please.
We have played this for years, mostly on planes. We paid for the app. Now we were told to migrate and lost our levels and have to put up with ads! Boo.
We lost all progress, now we have ads the entire experience with this new app ruined the game for everyone.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.33
- Size: 137.39 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: My Evil Twin Games Corp
Last updated: 2nd May 2023 | Genre: Education, Word | Developer: My Evil Twin Games Corp