Word-based RPG isn't exactly a booming genre, but casual game publisher PopCap has the market cornered. "Bookworm Adventures" launched a couple years back and basically rocked, mixing an addictive word-based puzzle game with a narrative. "Bookworm Adventures 2" hopes to do the same thing when it drops at the end of July for PC, with a Mac release sometime after.
Me describing it sounds decidedly lame, but if you've been playing the original "Bookworm" on the PC or iPhone, it's a similar experience, albiet with a little more depth layered in. And by depth I mean literally companions like Mother Goose, who knows her way around a consonant. If you haven't played the original, take a few minutes and kill some time. The game encourages the prevention of book burning, too, so there's even a moral!