Free Twitch chat games: Word Chain & Letter Rain

Two word games to play with your Twitch chat

Both games follow the same idea. You open the game in its own browser window, enter your channel name and capture that window in your streaming software. From then on the game reads your chat and checks every message on the spot. Which one fits your stream depends on the mood: teamwork under a ticking clock, or a free-for-all where the fastest typer wins.

Here is what a short Word Chain round in the Animals category can look like:

Letter Rain plays out differently. The screen might show "Animals with B", and within seconds chat fills up with bear, beaver, badger and bison – everybody racing at once instead of taking turns.

A free Twitch chat game with no bot and no login

You never have to connect a bot or hand out permissions for your channel. Instead, your browser joins your Twitch chat anonymously and in read-only mode, so there is no Twitch login and the game never posts anything in chat. If someone repeats a word or gets the starting letter wrong, the hint appears on screen inside the game rather than as spam in your chat.

• Free: both games and all eight categories.
• No bot: no permissions to grant, no extra account in your chat.
• No login, no sign-up: type your channel name and hit start.
• Browser-based: nothing to install. In OBS you simply add a window capture.
• Privacy-friendly: no tracking, no analytics tools, no cookies.

The step-by-step OBS guide walks you through capturing the window in OBS, placing your facecam and compensating for stream delay.

How your viewers join in

Viewers don't need to install anything, learn commands or sign up anywhere. If they can type in chat, they can play.

1. Start a round. Press Space, or let your mods type !wk start in chat.
2. Type words. Capitalisation and accents don't matter, and filler like "lol" is simply ignored.
3. Score points. Valid words are scored instantly, and every letter beyond five adds a bonus point.
4. See the results. At the end the game shows the top player, any new record and a few words that would also have worked.

Offensive words are never accepted or displayed, and well-known bots like Nightbot or StreamElements are ignored automatically. If you only want deliberate answers to count, you can require a prefix such as !w.

Levels and achievements across every stream

Every point a viewer earns becomes 1 XP, and that XP follows them from stream to stream wherever Wortkette is running. Level 2 takes 50 XP, level 10 takes 2,250 XP and level 50 takes 61,250 XP, with new titles unlocking along the way.

On top of that there are 49 achievements in eight groups – for example answering in under two seconds, or landing a five-hit combo in Letter Rain. Level-ups and new achievements pop up on screen after each round, and the top 25 players appear on the achievements page. Streamers can switch sharing off, and players can opt out of having their profile shown.

Separately, each channel keeps its own local leaderboard in your browser. You can view it for the current week, which resets every Monday, or for all time, and export it as a JSON file.

Eight categories with English word lists

Switch the game to English and every category uses its own English word list. The seven themed categories hold more than 64,700 words between them, and Everything accepts roughly 190,000 entries based on the public-domain ENABLE word list.

Words the game doesn't recognise get reported, so the lists keep growing over time. Streaming in German? Switch the game to DE, or read the German overview.

Frequently asked questions