Epistory – Typing Chronicles
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Epistory is an atmospheric adventure typing game that tells the story of a writer lacking inspiration who asks her muse to help write her latest book. In Epistory you play the muse, a fictional character in a world where everything is untold. Your adventure begins on a blank page, but the world will soon become larger and livelier as you gather inspiration, solve its mysteries and defeat its enemies. From movement to opening chests and fighting in epic battles, every element in the game is controlled exclusively with the keyboard. As you progress and explore the fantasy origami world, the story literally unfolds in the writer’s mind and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
This game is unbelievably good. I've playing games that teach typing before, as a kid. This is far, far, far beyond those games. This is a real game, and it also happens to help increase your WPM. I used to be able to type over 100wpm, currently my best is over 86. But this game might bring me back to 100 WPM!!
Steam User 2
Epistory is amazing. So fun, and helps you practice typing so as to improve your touch typing abilities and speed. I wish that there were more of these games. Outstanding!!!!!!!!!
Steam User 2
I love the gameplay, and I think the game has innovated on the typing genre more than any other.
The main mechanic of the game is elemental mode-switching, which lets you use different magic to freeze, burn, blow or zap bugs. Using these modes is strategic, and clutching last second freezes or getting multi-bug lightning bounces is so satisfying. I wonder if they took inspiration from old mode-switching text editors like EMACS and Vi for the idea. If they did, that's awesome.
My only complaint is that the gameplay does get stale because you're only typing alphabetical words in the same way the whole game. "Bosses" (big bugs) are just longer words, which is fine, but I would've liked to see more hype around it. Maybe type out a sentence or paragraph.
Also, the game is pretty, and the story is more vibes than a narrative. I recommend the game though, it's fun :)
Steam User 2
I thought this was going to be a throwaway game for a night but I honestly really enjoyed it. It had a good story, world, and narrative. Really fond of this game and would highly recommend it.
Steam User 2
This is a great game to practice touch typing (it really is necessary since you have to keep your eyes on screen and be prepared to type the enemies' words during surprise encounters). Often times battles are fought while having to stand still on a platform, which means that you can solely focus on typing. The controls for walking (E-up, F-left,j J-down, I-right) take a bit getting used to. If you'd prefer a different key binding just search up some community mods
I am a miserable typist (around 30-45 wpm) and until now progression hasn't been too hard.
Steam User 2
A fascinating tale of a girl and a fox, stranded in the middle of nowhere, typing out their own story...
A really good take on a typing game, where you play as a female character atop a red fox, destroying bugs and items, finding chests, restoring the land and restoring memories.
During your journey you find different powers, with which you can access different areas and tackle enemies with different strategies, with some great synergies between some of them. The controls are really good, until around the third area, where some angles of movement might be needed, but are not easy to get.
The music is really good, it sets the mood for the occasion, and the ending piece is just so relaxing that it makes you feel good after completing the game.
A few caveats, of course. The last achievements are a grind to get, but they give you an excuse to try out the arena mode of the game, which is just wave defense, with increasing difficulties. You also have to be perfect at typing for some achievements, and fast for a few others. There is a mod in the steam workshop for people who can't write quickly, or usually fat-finger their keyboard, so the achievements are not impossible, but still take a fair amount of time to get.
Overall, I would give this game a 8/10, the story is quite good, the difficulty is mostly average, with some really challenging sections that require using specific elements, the music is good, controls are a bit iffy for certain sections, arena mode for extra time in the game, if you want to play something after campaign, but extremely grindy achievements.
Steam User 2
Epistory is a beautiful typing adventure game. The game is really nice to look at and it's really simple to understand, you just walk around in a world which slowly unfolds itself. By typing you can attack enemies and unlock new areas. The boss fights are kind of repetitive, the whole game really, but I enjoy typing so it was not a huge issue for me. All in all, it's a pretty typing game, but it can get kind of repetitive.