
- 61/100
- Players19 ratings
- 30/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- Metacritic4 critic reviews
- 74/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 72/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 3.8/5
- Player reviews
- 90% positive750 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac
- Price
- US$14.99
Where to get it

2017 · Smiling Buddha Games · Board game · Indie
Use Your Words
Grab a few friends and get ready to laugh. Use Your Words is the party game for funny people and their unfunny friends!
- Released
- 4 April 2017
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 4Wii UWindowsXbox OnemacOS
- Genres
- Board gameIndiePartyPuzzle
- Developers
- Smiling Buddha Games
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Text
- Themes
- ComedyParty
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- PEGI 16ACB MESRB M
- Languages
- English, French
- Time to beat
- 1hmain story4hcompletionist
About
Use Your Words is a party video game developed by Smiling Buddha Games and published by Screenwave Media. It was released for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Wii U in April 2017, and for the Nintendo Switch in August 2017.
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Use Your Words is a game for 3–6 players and is played similar to The Jackbox Party Pack in that players play on a browser with web-enabled devices. Four mini-games are played throughout a single game:
Sub the Title: A small clip from a foreign film is shown with a missing subtitle and players are invited to write their own subtitle in its place.
Development
In 2015, designer Brent Black and veteran game developer Julian Spillane came together to create the game, which the former pitched as "a party game for funny people and their unfunny friends."
Reception
The Switch version of Use Your Words received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Nintendo Life scored the Switch version 8 out of 10, saying the game is best played in the comfort of a local crowd. Nintendo World Report also rated the Switch version 8/10, praising it as "accessible" and "fun," but criticizing the lack of an option to change text size for playing in portable mode. On the opposite end, Destructoid rated the game 3/10, comparing the gameplay to simply riffing on foreign films or randomly Googled images.
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