Let’s cut to the chase. There’s a game on Steam called Tyfortress: Tactical Typing. It costs 99 American cents or roughly I don’t care how much in other currency. That’s not on sale. That’s just the price of the game. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee, you could help children around the world or pick up Tyfortress: Tactical Typing.
And, baby, you want to choose Tyfortress: Tactical Typing.
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If you haven’t heard of the game, that’s probably because it has a name that’s designed to make you move on to the next entry in your Steam recommendations. However, as the title only kind of implies, Tyfortress: Tactical Typing is a tower defense, slash, typing game hybrid. You type to build up spending points, use those spending points to buy towers, and then type again to help those towers shoot down enemies.
So, yes, to be fair, that 99 cents is buying you a 99 cent game. This ain’t Elden Ring. You won’t spend a hundred hours here. You’re not gonna meet someone named Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, or other characters past that specific part where I’m stuck in the game. This is cheap arcade action.
But, back up, didn’t I say it involved typing? That’s right, I did. You gotta type hard and you gotta type fast. When an enemy with a word like ‘abhorrent’ is speeding towards your shields, you learn real quick how good you are at hitting those letters.
And it is glorious.
And we need more of it.
There are already some good typing games out there and readily available. ‘Typing of the Dead: Overkill’ is great, albeit less fun than the original ‘Typing of the Dead.’ And games like The Textorcist and Nanotale: Typing Chronicles are great spins on
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