4thewords Promo

4thewords is a writing game; it features quests, monsters, and lore.

The gist is simple; write a specific number of words in a specific amount of time in order to beat a monster. Sometimes quests requires items monsters drop, sometimes the quest is killing a certain number of monsters. There's a main quest line that, as you advance, will progressively unlock new areas with new quests and monsters. Sometimes there are special time-limited events (there's one starting Apr 4!) with monsters and quests that aren't available outside of those events.

Playing 4thewords requires an active subscription, though you can still access the things you've already written without a subscription, you just can't write any more. The subscription is about 4USD/month, though they have sales (that has historically coincided with NaNoWriMo events) where it might be a little cheaper.

There's also a community pool you can put your account into where you might get free subscription time. I'm not sure how it works, but users can buy subscription time and donate it to the community pool. Users can also directly purchase subscription time for other users or gift it as a redeem code.

I wanna be very clear about this; the subscription isn't automatic. It won't automatically pull money from your account. You purchase a number of crystals from 4TW in one-time purchases, which you use to pay for the amount of subscription time you want. I think it might be slightly cheaper to buy a lot at once, but I haven't done the math at that. 1 month's subscription is 44 crystals, 1 year is 528 crystals.

4thewords comes with a 15-day free trial period for new accounts, and right now there's a special code (valid until Apr 4, I believe) that will get you another 10 days of free subscription. The code is Starfall, and you wanna put that here once you've made an account.

I've also got a referral code! You and I both get free extra crystals upon your first purchase of crystals if you use my code (WBPJE10994) when you sign up.

Below the cut I'll go into more details about what 4thewords offers, and some bug issues you might wanna be aware of, and some recent changes they've made (so if you've bounced off it before, now might be a good time to retry!)
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