Use Your Words

Use Your Words

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2017

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99.

Length
0.8h 4h to 100%
Value
$18.74/hr
Reviews
89% of 850 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$18.74/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 338 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Use Your Words is the new party game for funny people and their unfunny friends! Laugh your way through four hilarious mini-games! Use your smartphone to fill in the blank, or try your luck using one of our answers to get laughs! No matter your strategy, Use Your Words brings comedy home!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

38 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Quiplash ($9.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Drawful 2 ($9.99, scores 40).

More about Use Your Words

Of the 338 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 0.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 4, 5.0 times as much.

The drop-off

87% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

One of the best games in my Steam library. Great investement, especailly if you have a group of online friends (or real life friends who are happy to hop on a call). I've lost count of the amount of nights my friends and I have sent on VCs playing this. I unfortunately almost always loose, but that is just me being chronically unfunny compared to my friends.
s4licesRecommendedafter 24hApr 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Thanks for makin' my college parties way more fun! Lots of amazing memories within these prompts ^w^
Mama MilkaRecommendedafter 32hNov 2025Read on Steam
Get it its so much fun and worth the price on top of that your friends dont need to own it to play and i think that is the best factor of this game cant recommend it enough!
Serena is my KumQuat QueenRecommendedafter 2.5hAug 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Use Your Words scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/521350/use-your-words
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSmiling Buddha Games, LLC
PublisherScreenwave Media
GenreMultiplayer
Released2017
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22