Runebloom: Fantasy Word Search

Drag across the rune stones and the world answers. Find the word MOON and the moon rises. Find LIGHT and the lanterns glow. Find DRAGON and a dragon sweeps over the trees. Runebloom is a fantasy word search puzzle with its own story, eight realms and 96 boards, in English and Hungarian. There are no ads and no in-app purchases, and it plays completely offline.

The Hush has drained the color from the forest, and someone writing in gray ink is taking the names of things. A Scribe who can only whisper takes you on as his apprentice: he needs someone to say the words out loud. Words usually hide in straight lines: across, down, diagonally, even backwards. Every word you find brings some color back, and key words wake the realm’s wonders. There are no lives to lose and no way to fail a board.

EIGHT REALMS, 96 BOARDS
The Moonlight Grove starts you on the classic word search. Every realm after it adds a twist of its own:
• Crystal Cavern: when two words pass through a crystal stone, it sets off a chain reaction.
• Mistmarsh: some stones hide under a Hush Veil until a word found beside them burns it away.
• Sunken Library: riddles stand in for the words, each with its number of stones.
• Dragon Peak: Dragon’s Breath. A frozen word only counts while its ice stone glows.
• Mirror Lake: a mirror word bounces off the water like light, in a V.
• Windharp Gorge: after every word, the wind pushes a row of stones along.
• Rootdeep: on a root knot, a word may turn once.
Every realm has twelve boards and six wonders, and what wakes stays awake. The sixth board is the turning point: it opens the way to six Echo boards, each hiding a page of the Grimoire, 48 pages in all. The next realm opens once all twelve boards of this one are done.

49 HIDDEN CREATURES
Each of the first six boards in every realm hides a creature’s name, and one more hides in the Sunken Library. It isn’t on the list: only a row of dots shows how many stones it takes. Find it and the creature joins your Bestiary with an ability of its own: the lizard forgives one wrong swipe per board, the owl brings the Wisp Whisper sooner, the fox adds mana to every bonus word. From the owl to the snow leopard, there are 49 to find.

THE STORY: THE NAME THIEVES
Between the boards, the story of the Name Thieves unfolds on short scene cards, with a narrator’s voice at the key moments. Every scene can be read again in the Grimoire’s Chronicle, and a finale closes the campaign at the end of Rootdeep.

THE DEPTHS AND THE DAILY RUNE
When the Sunken Library opens, so do the Depths below it: an endless run of boards that get harder in steps as you go down. The Daily Rune is a new word puzzle every day, and the Map keeps your streak. Everyone playing in the same language gets the same Daily Rune that day, and the same board at every depth.

HINTS, STARS AND FEATS
Stuck? The Lightbeam lights up the first stone of a word for mana, but costs that board’s “No Lightbeam used” star. Pause for a while and the Wisp Whisper helps for free: a wisp drifts toward a word you haven’t found yet. Valid words that aren’t on the list are bonus words: they earn mana and go into your Word Hoard. Every board has three stars to earn, there are 71 feats (achievements), and each new rule comes with a short animated how-to card.

ON XBOX AND PC
On the TV, play with an Xbox controller: a cursor moves over the stones, and you hold A to trace a word. On a PC, a wide window puts the board beside the scene and the word list, so the world fills the screen; play with the mouse, a finger on a touch screen, or a controller, and F11 switches to full screen.

ENGLISH AND HUNGARIAN
A word game in two languages: each has its own boards, words, riddles, narration and save, and you can switch any time in Settings. In Hungarian, the game is called Rúnaliget.

COMPLETE AND OFFLINE
One purchase is the whole game: no subscription, no account, nothing more to buy. It needs no internet connection and collects no data: your progress stays on your console or PC.

ART AND SOUND
Every pixel of the world is drawn in code. Best with sound: each of the eight realms has its own music, ambience and narration.

A Bug Factory game. We also used AI tools during development.