Story completed with 100% of achievements unlocked. Epistory presents an entertainingly unusual take on an adventure game, being based wholly around keyboard controls and typing as a combat mechanic. Players control a fox, traveling through a diverse range of environments, stylised with storybook-like graphics, which expand as you progress though the game and its light but entertaining story. Combat here is achieved through typing words that appear above enemies that you encounter, complemented by (again keyboard-controlled) spells, which serves to create some impressively frantic and challenging encounters, scaled to match your skills as a typist - perhaps even with the incidental benefit of improving your typing skills!

picked it up because I like typing games, and it definitely delivered on that. Especially the "boss fights" were really fun. Overall I wish the game were harder, though, and it would definitely have benefitted from a difficulty setting (which should be very easy to implement for a typing game - just toggle longer words!)

the game itself is pretty as it unfolds, but it gets a bit boring fast when there's really not much to do in the world. For me it quickly turned into just checking the map and just walking from A to B as instructed.

Epistory is a beautiful game that mixes artistic visuals with text-based combat and does so extremely well. It is without a doubt one of the best-looking games I have played, and the unfolding nature of the world's map continuously offers a new experience worth looking at.

The gameplay is pretty simple, enemies walk towards you with words above their heads, type those words and they shall be defeated. This gets intermingled with a gimmick of having different magic you can use that applies different effects, such as temporarily freezing enemies or burning their next word automatically. The game's difficulty is really determined by your typing capabilities, it can be rather hard in the endgame if you aren't proficient at your keyboard but a relaxing experience if you are. The words you have to type vary in length depending on the enemy, with some of them being short while others incredibly long. This in turn makes the game pretty good for expanding your word knowledge.

Overall, Epistory is definitely a game worth playing if you enjoy typing and wonderful aesthetics. It was a real treat to play and highly enjoyable.

I have a history of being scammed by games with a nice art style and cute foxes, and I was pleasantly surprised that this is in fact a legitimately fun game. There is a surprising amount of gameplay in the typing itself, and I enjoyed the RPG elements and exploration for about the first two thirds of the game.

This game overstayed its welcome for me, especially because I was maxed on everything before starting the final chapter, and I got tired of checking the map for where else I could unlock new areas. The story was vague, but the narration style is pleasant, so I'm not mad about it. Overall, fun and creative take on a typing game which I never knew was possible.