You type a shit-ton in Epistory and honestly it may be the best typing game I've ever played, though I think there's only like three other contenders. Too bad that doesn't make it some great game everyone has to check out, either.
If you don't like typing, you're going to hate this game. You don't have to capitilize or anything, but the words can get long and you will be typing basically 80% of the time you're playing. The combat works with you running around and whenever you press space, you're in typing mode. Typing mode is how you fight creatures that "attack", or basically just walk into you and cause you immediate death. So when you see a creature on the edge of your screen making its way towards you, you press spacebar, and now it has a word over its head. You will type this word, and chances are fair another word or seven will appear afterwards, too. Once all the words are typed, this threat is gone and it's on to the next.
There are powerups unlocked throughout the story, like fire which smolders away the second word if you type the first, ice which temporarily freezes enemies after you type the word, sparks which when you type a word (part of a list, can't be the final word) above an enemy it'll shock nearby enemies, lowering their word count, and wind, which upon word completion sends a wide gust out to knock that target and any target near it backwards. Spark was definitely the most useful as it helps clear the screen the fastest. Wind, the final one, was practically worthless and you'll likely only switch to it when the words are colorcoded and need wind to kill the target.
The story is pretty classic indie game stuff, unfortunately. Very vague for the longest time, needlessly and poorly poetic often (alliterations abound), clearly something to do with depression, etc. You will likely ignore it all. Towards the end, I eventually turned my speakers down and just listened to my own music while I played, and trust me, I never missed anything. The voiceover stuff is written on the foreground anyways so if you really care, it's there.
There are spots where you're stationary and a mob of enemies approach from all angles. These are the best part of the game by far and the most challenging. Towards the end of the game, there'll be quite a few enemies walking towards you at once and you'll have to type like a maniac in order to get out of it. The last one is actually surprisingly hard and took me a few tries, even with all the upgrades. There are no difficulty adjustments, so I think that final fight might actually stop a lot of people dead in their tracks. I consider myself pretty good at typing and again, they don't just hand you the ending. As previously mentioned, these are likely only possible thanks to the sparks upgrade, which helps clear the screen a lot faster of new foes.
If you like typing games, I don't see why you wouldn't like this one. It's not on rails, and maybe this is slightly detrimental to the experience, but the game lets you walk around the map and find not-so-hidden chests. These are very easy to find except for 1, which is on an island and you know you have to teleport to but you have no fucking idea where the teleporter is for it. It certainly didn't seem to be around the landmass near the island. So you, too, better also struggle and fail to find that fucker.
It was free on Epic, I'd recommend it for that price. Not worth buying for more than 5 bucks, though, and that'd be only if you love typing games.
If you don't like typing, you're going to hate this game. You don't have to capitilize or anything, but the words can get long and you will be typing basically 80% of the time you're playing. The combat works with you running around and whenever you press space, you're in typing mode. Typing mode is how you fight creatures that "attack", or basically just walk into you and cause you immediate death. So when you see a creature on the edge of your screen making its way towards you, you press spacebar, and now it has a word over its head. You will type this word, and chances are fair another word or seven will appear afterwards, too. Once all the words are typed, this threat is gone and it's on to the next.
There are powerups unlocked throughout the story, like fire which smolders away the second word if you type the first, ice which temporarily freezes enemies after you type the word, sparks which when you type a word (part of a list, can't be the final word) above an enemy it'll shock nearby enemies, lowering their word count, and wind, which upon word completion sends a wide gust out to knock that target and any target near it backwards. Spark was definitely the most useful as it helps clear the screen the fastest. Wind, the final one, was practically worthless and you'll likely only switch to it when the words are colorcoded and need wind to kill the target.
The story is pretty classic indie game stuff, unfortunately. Very vague for the longest time, needlessly and poorly poetic often (alliterations abound), clearly something to do with depression, etc. You will likely ignore it all. Towards the end, I eventually turned my speakers down and just listened to my own music while I played, and trust me, I never missed anything. The voiceover stuff is written on the foreground anyways so if you really care, it's there.
There are spots where you're stationary and a mob of enemies approach from all angles. These are the best part of the game by far and the most challenging. Towards the end of the game, there'll be quite a few enemies walking towards you at once and you'll have to type like a maniac in order to get out of it. The last one is actually surprisingly hard and took me a few tries, even with all the upgrades. There are no difficulty adjustments, so I think that final fight might actually stop a lot of people dead in their tracks. I consider myself pretty good at typing and again, they don't just hand you the ending. As previously mentioned, these are likely only possible thanks to the sparks upgrade, which helps clear the screen a lot faster of new foes.
If you like typing games, I don't see why you wouldn't like this one. It's not on rails, and maybe this is slightly detrimental to the experience, but the game lets you walk around the map and find not-so-hidden chests. These are very easy to find except for 1, which is on an island and you know you have to teleport to but you have no fucking idea where the teleporter is for it. It certainly didn't seem to be around the landmass near the island. So you, too, better also struggle and fail to find that fucker.
It was free on Epic, I'd recommend it for that price. Not worth buying for more than 5 bucks, though, and that'd be only if you love typing games.