The Scrambled LibraryPress Kit
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Fact sheet
- Name
- The Scrambled Library
- Developer
- Marco Lüthi, Zürich, Switzerland
- Genre
- Word game, roguelike
- Platforms
- iPhone and iPad, iOS 18.2 or later
- Status
- Public beta on TestFlight
- Price
- Free to play the Main Hall. The Full Library, a one-time in-app purchase (US$4.99), unlocks four more wings.
- Language
- English
- Game Center
- 29 achievements, 6 leaderboards, live battles and turn-based duels
- Contact
- hi@luthi-mar.co
About The Scrambled Library
In one sentence
The Scrambled Library is a word-building roguelike for iPhone and iPad: spell words from nine letter tiles, outwit 16 eccentric librarians and put the stories of the Great Library back together.
Longer
One stormy night, a spell went wrong and every book in the Great Library spilled its letters across the floors. Wren, the Head Librarian, needs an apprentice. Players spell words from nine letter tiles to reach a target score before their words run out, then climb the library floor by floor, one shelf at a time.
Every floor has two aisles, and players pick one shelf in each. Every genre plays differently and pays out its own prize: a Mystery hides a clue letter, a Fairy Tale makes the first word magical, a Diary trades a word for redraws. Then the floor's librarian guards the last shelf with a strange rule: the Haiku allows a single word, the Moths eat tiles, the Library Cat naps on a letter. Between shelves, players borrow Books at the Book Desk that change how words score, and renew or return them when they fall due, so every run builds a different strategy.
Beyond the climb there's a Daily Edition with the same letters for everyone, a Time Trial, turn-based Time Duels and live Word Battles through Game Center, where both players get the same letters and every word tears pages out of the other's book.
Features
- Nine letter tiles and about 118,000 English words, with US and UK spellings
- Two aisles on every floor: pick a genre shelf, each with its own twist and prize
- 16 floor librarians, each with a rule twist, shown before the shelf starts
- 27 Books with due dates, plus Catalog Cards, that change how words score
- Five wings of the Great Library, each with its own rules, plus endless mode
- Daily Edition: the same letters for everyone, one try a day
- Time Trial, turn-based Time Duels and live 1v1 Word Battles
- Pixel art, original music and a story told wing by wing
- Runs save automatically and work offline
Logo and icon
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App Store screenshots
The iPhone set with captions. The iPad set (2064 × 2752) is in the ZIP.
01 · Spell words1284 × 2778 PNG · 1.2 MB
02 · The story1284 × 2778 PNG · 804 KB
03 · 16 librarians1284 × 2778 PNG · 1.0 MB
04 · Borrow books1284 × 2778 PNG · 1.3 MB
05 · Big scores1284 × 2778 PNG · 1.1 MB
06 · Five wings1284 × 2778 PNG · 1.0 MB
07 · More modes1284 × 2778 PNG · 1.1 MB
08 · The library awaits1284 × 2778 PNG · 1.1 MB
Gameplay screens
Full-screen captures without captions.
The prologue: a spell went wrong1206 × 2622 PNG · 453 KB
Floor 5: pick a shelf in each aisle1206 × 2622 PNG · 1.1 MB
The Library Cat's shelf: OYSTER1206 × 2622 PNG · 1.1 MB
A 16,492-point word1206 × 2622 PNG · 1.1 MB
The Library Cat guards floor 51206 × 2622 PNG · 1.5 MB
Borrowing at the Book Desk1206 × 2622 PNG · 1.1 MB
Word Battle against Wren1206 × 2622 PNG · 1.4 MB
The Versus room1206 × 2622 PNG · 1.1 MB
Time Trial1206 × 2622 PNG · 1.3 MB
Gameplay clips
Short screen recordings of the game, as loops without sound.
About the developer
The Scrambled Library is made by Marco Lüthi, an independent developer in Zürich who builds apps for iPhone and Mac. For interviews, review builds or anything else, write to hi@luthi-mar.co. More apps are on the overview.