Write Warz developers on how creative writing makes a hilarious party game

Write Warz is the recently launched debut title of Boltz Entertainment, a co-op party game that turns the act of storytelling into strategic (and often funny) warfare against your opponents. Building on the tradition of Jackbox-style titles like Quiplash or RiffTrax, Write Warz instead offers a longer-form avenue of storytelling between friends, as up to 6 players can join together to build the narrative. The game launches on Steam in early access on March 6, with horror and pirate-based themes.

Each game within Write Warz is a round robin-style iteration where every round, the players each contribute a sentence or two. The winner’s writing is added the story, and so on, with each story’s prompt being determined by the in-game “setting” — pirate-themed, horror-themed, etc. Each player has a chosen avatar who, if the player’s sentence is chosen, can bestow a buff or debuff on themselves and other players. Depending on the type of game chosen, there can be other complications, such as extra objectives in the form of words or in-round attacks players can use to shorten their opponent’s time or word count.