- Write Warz v03.01.02: Mobile Stability Fixes + Sci-Fi on Browser - 10 September 2026
Write Warz v03.01.02 is here with a major fix for mobile players getting disconnected, a big browser stability update, and full Sci-Fi support on browser and mobile! Stay in the game: browser & mobile fixes Mobile connections Fixed the issue that could boot mobile players when minimizing their browser or switching tabs, especially in the lobby. Players should now stay connected more reliably. If you do disconnect, you can rejoin smoothly with the press of a button. More resilient games The host should now be much more stable, even on poor connections. Brief server disconnects, high latency, and missed packets should no longer cause games to drop. Sci-Fi is now on browser & mobile! Sci-Fi joins the list of themes fully compatible with browser and mobile play. Work together to build up crew points and lead your crew to the best outcome—all directly from your phone or browser! Solve the Wo…
- Patch 03.01.01 — Western Rides onto Browser & Mobile! - 21 August 2026
The Western Theme Rides onto Browser and Mobile! Saddle up, writers! Patch 03.01.01 makes Write Warz’s Western Theme fully compatible with browser and mobile play, so you can join the action from the comfort of your couch. Hunt Wanted Outlaws Write the name of the outlaw shown on the Wanted poster, win the round, and collect their bounty. Every outlaw is worth chasing—and every word could turn the story in your favor. Wager It All in Word Poker Every few rounds, put your hard-earned points on the line in Word Poker. Call, raise, fold, and build the longest word you can from your letter cards to take the pot. These changes also include additional fixes and refinements to the Western Theme for all players. Other Changes If a Twitch bot wins a game, every player who contributed to that bot will now be announced on the winner screen. We’ve refined the backend login process to streamline sig…
- Community Story Spotlight: Good Night, Information Team Captain - 7 August 2026
COMMUNITY STORY SPOTLIGHTEvery week, Write Warz players create stories that range from completely chaotic to unexpectedly compelling.This week’s selection is:GOOD NIGHT, INFORMATION TEAM CAPTAINCreated by:Jillilizardbong bongLE MAYLAThis community-created fan story follows Ozzie after he becomes separated from the other Sinners inside an abandoned L Corp. branch.What begins with a strange pink puddle quickly escalates into an encounter with Melting Love—an Abnormality that appears to remember Ozzie far better than he would like.The story stood out to us because each new line continued building on what came before. The players established the setting, introduced the threat, revealed a connection between the characters, and steadily increased the danger before ending with one final cruel twist:The rescue party was only a few feet away.We have lightly edited the original story for grammar,…
- Write Warz 3.1.0 — Discord Integration and Fantasy on Browser - 16 July 2026
WRITE WARZ PATCH 3.1.0 IS NOW LIVE!This update introduces Discord integration, brings the complete Fantasy theme experience to browser players, and includes several optimizations designed to improve browser performance.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━DISCORD INTEGRATION Write Warz now integrates directly with Discord!You can send game invitations to your friends through Discord, allowing them to join your session through the Discord app if they own Write Warz on desktop.Write Warz will also update your Discord profile with Rich Presence, allowing your friends to see what you are currently doing in the game.With Discord integration, it is now easier to gather your group, share your activity, and jump into a story together.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━THE FANTASY THEME IS NOW FULLY PLAYABLE ON BROWSERFantasy is now our second theme with full browser-player compatibility—and it is our biggest browser theme upd…
- Community Story Spotlight: The Tournament of Nebulon IV - 10 July 2026
COMMUNITY STORY SPOTLIGHT Every week, Write Warz players create an enormous variety of stories. Some become hilarious disasters. Some descend into complete chaos. Others somehow develop into surprisingly cohesive adventures from beginning to end.This week’s featured story is one of those adventures.When we first read “The Tournament of Nebulon IV,” we assumed it had been created by a full group of players working together.Only afterward did we discover that the entire story had been created by one player—vellathewenc—playing alongside two of Write Warz’s in-game AI Storytellers.Together, they created a complete sci-fi journey filled with crimson forests, mysterious creatures, living runes, an alien tournament, and a last-second escape from a supernova.Congratulations to vellathewenc and their two AI storytelling companions for creating this week’s Community Story Spotlight!━━━━━━━━━━━━━…
- Write Warz is 50% Off for the Steam Summer Sale - 24 June 2026
Write Warz is 50% off for the Steam Summer Sale! From June 25 to July 9, you can grab Write Warz for 50% off.Regular price: $9.99Sale price: $4.99If you’ve been waiting to jump in with your friends, this is the best time to start a game night.What is Write Warz?Write Warz is a multiplayer story-building party game where players write the next line of a story, vote for their favorite, and the winning line becomes canon.The story keeps evolving through different themes, gameplay twists, and mini-games as your group builds something together.Sometimes it becomes epic.Sometimes it becomes ridiculous.Most of the time, it becomes both.Only one person needs to own the gameWrite Warz now supports a Jackbox-style setup.One player can host the game on PC, and everyone else can join from a phone, tablet, laptop, or browser device using:writewarz.tvMobile/browser support is still in beta, but writi…
- Stability Patch 03.00.05 - 23 June 2026
Hey Word Warriors, We have heard you loud and clear and we were able to finally track down some of these pesky disconnect issues that have been plaguing the mobile players. Here are the 03.00.05 patch notes: Adjusted AFK detection to be more lenient and not incorrectly identify browser players as AFK.Fixed a bug that occasionally broke the game when playing on browser only mode with twitch integration.Fixed a bug that prevented the host from kicking browser players from a lobby.Fixed a bug with browser games that caused them to occasionally end prematurely.Fixed a bug that prevented some browser players in lobbies from showing properly before the game started. Please let us know in Discord if you or anyone in your group has any disconnect issues. We are still very much in beta when it comes to the mobile component of Write Warz so we appreciate the patience as we actively track and elim…
- Story Spotlight Friday + Patch Notes 3.00.04 - 12 June 2026
Story Spotlight Friday + Patch Notes 3.00.02Welcome back to Story Spotlight Friday, our weekly community series where we highlight some of our favorite stories created by Write Warz players.Every Write Warz game builds a story one sentence at a time. Players write, vote, and slowly watch the most unpredictable version of the story become canon.This week, we selected two new community stories that stood out for very different reasons: one for pure sci-fi absurdity, and one for a clean fantasy-comedy twist.Community Story SpotlightApocalypse Now: Surviving a Zombie Outbreak...but at what cost?Why we picked it: We wanted to show off not only the new PNG story saves, but one of our own in-house tests that can get a little...dark at times. (Ben was not harmed in the creation of this story.)Patch Notes 3.00.04Story Save and Socials: Instead of a boring text file, you can now download an image…
- Mobile updates - Balance changes and bug fixes - 26 May 2026
Patch Notes 03.00.03 Apocalyptic----The first iteration of our mobile/browser total conversion is here! Apocalyptic is now fully playable for mobile/browser players! That includes getting to decrypt your apocalyptic words and playing the word zombies minigame! This is the first theme in our journey to making every part of Write Warz playable on mobile and browser, watch out for many more to come. Make sure you have skip events turned off in the settings for the best experience for all players! Themes that are fully compatible will be marked as such in the theme selector! Other changes---- Improvements to spellcheck to ensure that the spell check suggestion box renders in the right place and correcting a word doesn't mess up your sentence, especially on Bumbly's Rocking Adventure. - Fixed issues related to the Elves vs Samurai duels sometimes ending too early or being inconsistent betwee…
- Write Warz Developer Stream – Our Full Team is Here! - 19 May 2026
We’re going live to hang out with the community, talk about the development of Write Warz, and create some hilarious stories.During the stream, we’ll cover:How each person on the team contributes to the gameTalk about some future ideas for Write WarzWatch normal stories completely spiral out of controlWe’ll also be jumping into gameplay, showcasing some of the more exciting modes, and reacting to the chaos as it unfolds.Whether you’re curious about how Write Warz was made, want to see the game played live, or just want to hang out and watch stories go completely off the rails, we’d love to have you there. https://discord.com/events/1092866675809996861/1455961926335987762 The stream will be broadcast live on Steam and Twitch.
- Story Spotlight Friday + Patch Notes 3.00.02 - 8 May 2026
Story Spotlight Friday + Patch Notes 3.00.02Welcome back to Story Spotlight Friday, our weekly community series where we highlight some of our favorite stories created by Write Warz players.Every Write Warz game builds a story one sentence at a time. Players write, vote, and slowly watch the most unpredictable version of the story become canon.This week, we selected two new community stories that stood out for very different reasons: one for pure sci-fi absurdity, and one for a clean fantasy-comedy twist.Community Story SpotlightBest Sci-Fi Chaos: The Sentient Bananas and the Sock TreatyPrompt: Captain's log: Today we found out that the sentient bananas from Planet Grok have developed a taste for our crew's socks.Story: In the dark belly of the USS Bananabreaker, the stench of overripe fruit mingled with the damp funk of stolen socks.The crew, barefoot but undeterred, embarked on a sock…
- Story Spotlight Friday: Our Favorite Community Stories - 1 May 2026
Community Story Spotlight — Week 1Welcome to our first Write Warz Community Story Spotlight!Every week, we’ll be digging through stories created by the community and highlighting a few of our favorites. Some might be hilarious. Some might be weirdly dramatic. Some might somehow become both within the span of one sentence.For this first spotlight, we selected three stories that stood out for different reasons: one for being the funniest, one for being the most serious, and one as our best overall community story of the week.These stories were created during real Write Warz games, where players build a story one sentence at a time, vote on their favorite lines, and watch the winning sentences become canon.Funniest Story of the WeekThe Pirate BellsPrompt: As the pirate crew prepared for the long voyage ahead of them, the captain's wooden leg fell off and rolled dramatically down the dock.A…
- Mobile and Backend Fixes - 24 April 2026
Write Warz 3.0.1 is now live!This update focuses on fixing major disconnect issues related to mobile and web-device players.Players joining from phones or web browsers should now have a much more stable experience and should no longer be disconnected while playing. We are still actively monitoring mobile stability and will continue improving it as mobile support moves through beta.Mobile Connection TrailerWe’ve also included a quick mobile connection trailer to show players how to join a Write Warz game from their phones or web browsers.Only one person needs to own Write Warz and play on a PC. That player acts as the host. Everyone else can join from a mobile device or web browser.For the best setup, we recommend the host either:Streams their screen through Discord so other players can see the gameConnects their PC to a TV for local party playShares their screen in another way so mobile…
- Write Warz 3.0 is Live - Come watch the devs play! - 17 April 2026
Write Warz 3.0 is here!It’s our full release out of Early Access. As part of this launch, Write Warz is no longer free-to-play, and we’ve removed the marketplace: one purchase includes every theme and cosmetic, forever. The biggest new feature is Mobile (Beta): only one person needs to own the game on Steam to host, and everyone else can join from a mobile browser device at writewarz.tv to write and vote.
- Write Warz 3.0 is Live: Mobile Beta + Elves vs Samurai + Twitch Writing - 17 April 2026
Write Warz 3.0 is here!It’s our full release out of Early Access. As part of this launch, Write Warz is no longer free-to-play, and we’ve removed the marketplace: one purchase includes every theme and cosmetic, forever. The biggest new feature is Mobile (Beta): only one person needs to own the game on Steam to host, and everyone else can join from a mobile browser device at writewarz.tv to write and vote.MOBILE: New way to play! Join a game for free on the mobile version of the game through any browser! This is a beta. For now you can write, use bonus words, and vote! How does it work? Create a game of Write Warz the usual way through the game on steam. You'll need to either be in the same room or share your screen so that mobile players can see it. Once a game has been created, mobile players can go to writewarz.tv, choose their name, and enter in the join code! Once everyone is in, st…
- Write Warz 3.0 Full Release is April 17 — Leaving Early Access + Free-to-Play - 6 April 2026
Word Warriors, It is time to assemble!Our 3.0 announcement trailer is live — and it marks the biggest milestone in Write Warz so far.On April 17th, Write Warz is officially leaving Early Access with our full 3.0 release.At the same time, Write Warz is also leaving Free-to-Play. Check out our trailer! Claim Write Warz FREE forever (deadline: April 17) If you download and play Write Warz before April 17th, you will be grandfathered in and keep the game for free permanently. After April 17th, the game will be $9.99.Action steps:Download Write Warz on SteamLaunch it and play a match (ideally with friends)You’re locked in before the switchWhat’s in the 3.0 Full ReleaseNEW THEME: ELVES VS SAMURAI Our anime high-fantasy theme is ready for battle. At the start of the game, each player is assigned to a faction. Work with your team to write an epic story, rack up points, and settle tiebreakers wi…
- Write Warz Ladies’ Night Community Play + Livestream - 19 February 2026
Join us for a special Ladies’ Night Community Play Event on February 26th at 5:30 PM EST.This night is led by the ladies and will feature:• Community play sessions open to everyone • An all-female cast livestreaming Write Warz • Live giveaways during the stream • And plenty of laughsWhether you’re jumping in to play or tuning in to watch, this is a celebration of big energy, big stories, and great company. Sign up to play with our team today https://discord.com/events/1092866675809996861/1474089762989019327 Bring your friends. Bring your best lines.
- Voting Rework Is Live — Sentence Merges, Faster Rounds, New Tutorials - 5 February 2026
Update 02.01.00 – Patch NotesThis update focuses on making Write Warz faster, clearer, and more fun to play round-to-round.Major Voting ReworkTied sentences are now merged instead of triggering another voting roundTied players share the winning pointsVoting now shows who wrote each sentence and who voted for whoPoints appear in a new scoreboard after votingWinner and Good Judgment announcements removed to speed up pacingBottom Bar ReworkNo more points shown during active roundsPlayer portraits now fill the bottom barRandomized player colors addedReadability ImprovementsLarger writing areasBigger, clearer textReworked timer art moved to top-rightTwitch ImprovementsClearer Twitch vote visibility with the new voting layoutNew TutorialsFully animated and voice-acted tutorials for the game and each themeCan be disabled or skippedFont ReworkFonts replaced for better readabilityMore varied sta…
- Community Game Night – Play Write Warz With the Devs - 2 February 2026
We’re hosting a Write Warz Community Game Night, and everyone is invited.Whether you’re brand new to Write Warz or a returning player, this event is all about getting people together, playing games, and trying out what’s next for the game—live with the dev team.During the event, we’ll be:Playing Write Warz with the communityHanging out in Discord with playersLaunching our brand-new voting phase reworkCelebrating Write Warz being featured in Steam’s Typing FestCommunity Game Night DetailsWhen: Friday at 6:00 PM EST Where: Discord Who: New players, returning players, and the Write Warz dev team👉 Join the event and play with us on Discord: https://discord.com/events/1092866675809996861/1467881896741441586If you’d rather watch, we’ll also be live on Twitch with part of the team: https://www.twitch.tv/writewarzWhat’s New: Voting Phase Rework (Live at the Event)We’ve reworked the voting phas…
- Voting Rework + Tiebreaker Sentence Merges Coming Next Week - 30 January 2026
Hey Word Warriors,We wanted to give you an early look at some big changes coming to Write Warz next week. This update leans harder into the party-game energy we’ve been shaping the game toward. Voting Phase Rework (Coming Next Week) Transparency update:We’ve revamped the voting phase to better fit the fun, social party-game vibe Write Warz has been evolving into.At the end of each voting round, you’ll now see:Who wrote each sentenceWhere every vote wentThis adds more reactions, personality, and yes… occasional drama (the fun kind). Tiebreakers (Big Change) Tiebreakers have always been something we wanted to improve. Previously, ties triggered another voting round, which took extra time and rarely changed the outcome.So we rebuilt it.Now, whenever there’s a tie, we merge the tied sentences together into one brand-new sentence that pulls as much as it can from each entry.It’s faster, funn…
