I didn’t think I’d be writing my second column about a typing-based horror game in a month, but here we are. At the beginning of February, I wrote about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead Letter Dept., an incredible horror game in which you have to enter addresses on cursed mail wh🔯ile you slowly fall into a miasma of insanity. That alone could have satiated my need for games in which I ℱpunch keys to make words very fast.

I also feel really gross that I used the word ‘satiated’, but as the best typing games have shown me, there’s no going back, only forward. All that asiꦆde, here I am at the beginning of March on my knees begging you to play Blood Typers, another horror game that uses the ol’ keyboard. I wish it was called Mavis Beacon Teaches Dying, but I 🧔also wish a lot of things I’ll never get.

Here’s the good news: Despite them both being horror typing games, Blood Typers is nothing like Dead Letter Dept. in aesthetics, vibes, or gameplay. While both have some randomized elements from playthrough to playthrough, the two are almost entirely diffe𓃲rent subgenres. It may be a short game, but Dead Letter is more of a slowburn experience, with you mostly sitting at a computer typing what you can discern on screen.

The visual style and feeling while you play is like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Silent Hill, but without any of the monsters or guns or . Blood Typers, however, is more of a straight up action game. I’m probably not the first person to make this comparison, but imagine combining Typing of the Dead and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil and you’re basically there.

If this sounds weird, I get it. I didn’t quite understand how Blood Typers would work when I first saw the screenshots and then bought the game without even checking Steam reviews. It was ten bucks and it was horror and it was typing. What am I gonna do? Research?

No, this is exactly what I want and this is exactly what I’m going to buy and - thankfully - it’s also exactly what I got. Blood Typers is a survival horr✃or game in which typing does everything from moving across areas to picking up items to using items to fighting enemies.

And I do mean typing. You’re not even using WASD to move, you’re literally typing little words on the ground to walk your character to that area. You can even go with a different word after finishing the previous one to suddenly change your direction. If there’s a bo▨x of ammo or food on a shelf, approaching it will u🧔sually bring up a phrase you can type to pick it up or, in the case of healing items, use them instantly.

The same goes for opening doors, turning on computer🗹s, breaking through barriers, and various other activities. I played the game with a keyboard in my lap and a Steam Deck connected to my TV. I never needed to reach for the controller or grab a mouse. It’s all keys, baby!

If it sounds confusing, it is - for maybe five minutes. Once you get a handle on it, it’s kind of amazing how well it works. I’ve never played anything like it. Most typing games use the typꦬing feature to handle one specific element, usually fighting enemies or solving a puzzle. And that’s great! And I’ll keep buying those games with my dwindling money from my dwindling career prospects.

But I have to give Blood Typers credit for going all-in o🎐n the concept. It’s another relatively short game, but Outer Brains Studios holds back none of it. You can make 𒀰it easier or harder, sure, but you better get goddamn typing.

As far as the survival horror goes, if you’ve played 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:any indie⛄ spin on theও PS1 Resident Evil era, you’re solid. You explore rooms in a creepy maze-like facility, picking up weapons and items that will be 💯u💜sed in other rooms in the creepy same maze-like facility.

Occasionally, you’ll run into some sort of enemy, at which point you can ♎hit Tab to enter combat mode and write the words hovering n🎐ear their body to attack. If you’ve got a gun, you can fire from across the room. If you have only a melee weapon, you’ll run up and attack after you enter the first word on screen.

I’m probably not playing the most efficient way possible yet, because I’m stupid,ꦡ but I love that it becomes frantic the moment there are two, three, or four enemies on screen. Because they ain’t taking turns hitting you; they’re just hitting you, buddy! So, you better type fast or run⭕ - and you don’t run very well.

That’s another interesting thing: There are multiple characters to play in Blood Typers with different attributes, strengths, and weaknesses. In fact, there’s even a multiplayer mode. In even more fact, I think this is intentionally supposed𒉰 to be more of a multiplayer game than a single-player one. Unfortunately, nobody I know personally was willing to live my same ‘spend ten dollars on a game based on vibes alone’ philosophy and the g♛ame itself doesn’t seem to have a matchmaking service.

I could’ve tried their Discord, but I don’t even really like playing multiplayer games with my friends, let alone strangers who will inevitably yell at me, so solo it is! 🃏Since I paid for this thing, love it, and this isn’t a review, I don’t really care. But for folks who have people in their life who like them, I can only imagine it makes the expe꧒rience better. As it is, going solo is amazing and enough of a game for me, a hermit who can’t die soon enough.

Outside of just being fun - which I want to emphasize that it is - I love that Blood Typers has found a new angle on both typing games and survival horror. Yes, that new angle might 🎶just be changing how you move and fight - and expanding the range of what a typing game can be - but combined together, they feel like a whole new experience.

Rather than rolliꦬng my eyes at anotꦏher indie Resident Evil homage involving large, cursed, zombie-filled buildings, I was putting the ache into my hands typing gibberish to kill a swarm of enemies. And rather than just typing funny sentences to beat enemies, I was juggling items, exploring, and freaking out. It’s not always perfect, but I’m always going to be on the side of a game that actually explores space and figures out a new approach.