cross-yanzheng/vocab-roguelike

Vocab Roguelike, also called Word Realm, is a Windows desktop 2D game that turns learning English vocabulary into a roguelike shooter. Players move through themed rooms, aim with the mouse, and fire Chinese-language word blocks at monsters that display English words written on them. Defeating a monster means matching the right meaning to the word it carries. Chests, items, and reward cards let players strengthen their character as they progress. The game ships with three difficulty tiers built around real vocabulary lists: an easy tier using high school words, a normal tier using words from China's CET-4 and CET-6 exams, and a hard tier using IELTS vocabulary. Each word entry stores its English word, Chinese meaning, a difficulty rating, a frequency rank, and tags. The game pulls words dynamically based on the current mode, room progress, player performance, and which words a player has previously gotten wrong or mastered. Controls include WASD or arrow keys to move, the mouse to aim, left click to fire word blocks, E to pick up items or open chests, Space to dodge, Q to use a shield potion, Tab to open a memory book, and F11 to toggle fullscreen. There are eight themed map backgrounds with matching obstacles, along with several monster types including elite, shielded, dashing, and chasing variants. The game is a single, self-contained executable, WordRealm.exe, that runs alongside its word bank file and runtime assets. Progress and learning data save automatically to a save file. Rebuilding from source uses a PowerShell build script. Technically, the project is written in plain C# using Windows Forms and GDI+ graphics, compiled with the .NET Framework compiler, with no dependency on Unity or Godot. The README does not state a license.