Wordle 5
Skip · Strategy · 2022
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 12, under the fair line, at $3.06.
- Length
- 1.7h 3.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.80/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 308 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Wordle 5 is the culmination of the Wordle series with brand new puzzles 10 new categories, 500 puzzles
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
39 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.06 at 90 percent off still sits 993 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. Wordle ($3.06, scores 51) outscores it, and so does CaseCracker ($9.99, scores 70). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Wordle 5
This site sampled 242 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
17% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Garbage. For a game about words you would expect they would be spelled correctly. The game is horribly priced to lure buyers in with steep discounts to what the price should have been.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I loved the other Wordle games, but this one suffers from an overemphasis on proper nouns (e.g. names of characters) and some truly abysmal misspellings in US English, its language of choice. Vocabulary and spelling just aren't that useful in this iteration, which undermines the central purpose of a word game. Get Wordle 1-4, but pass on this installment.
Probably couldn't in good conscience recommend this game. Coming in as the most expensive of the series - the price does not justify what you get - which is a half-baked DRAFT of what could have been a wonderful final game of the WORDLE franchise. Would actually highly recommend every other WORDLE game in the series, but ABSOLUTELY NOT this one! Which is truly a shame, because they went all out on the graphics...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Wordle 5 scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1867190/wordle-5Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.