🎮 What if you combined Resident Evil with your high school typing class? In a gaming landscape dominated by complex controllers and intricate key bindings, Blood Typers that question with delightful weirdness, delivering a survival horror experience where your WPM (words per minute) matters more than your aim. You may laugh at the concept now, but the panic will set in when your fingers fumble during a crucial moment.

Blood Typers transcends basic mechanics of traditional typing tutorials, instead layering them onto a fully realized survival horror reminiscent of Playstation-era classics. While it may initially evoke memories of Sega’s campy Typing of the Dead, released at the start of the millennia, Blood Typers offers something far more substantial — a complete action-adventure experience where your typing skills determine your survival.

Navigation through the game’s atmospheric environments is accomplished by typing words scattered at key points in your surroundings, automatically moving your character to those locations. Combat requires typing longer words that appear above enemies to attack them with your equipped weapon. More challenging foes demand multiple successful word inputs, with some armored enemies requiring repeated typing of the same word before you can proceed.

The weapons in Blood Typers feel uniquely designed for typing gameplay. You begin each scenario with a basic melee weapon (a steel pipe), but soon gain access to various firearms that change how you engage with the typing mechanics. The shotgun delivers powerful single-word attacks against larger enemies, while the SMG allows you to type just the first few letters of each word for a rapid-fire effect. Perhaps most satisfying is the flamethrower, which sets groups of nearby enemies ablaze, making subsequent attack words shorter and faster to type.

What makes Blood Typers truly exceptional is how it transforms the simple act of typing into a source of genuine tension, especially when an ill-timed typo leaves you vulnerable to enemy attacks.

💯 Rating: 9/10 on Steam

⌛ Hours of gameplay: 4 hours for the main story

🔁 Replay value: 10/10

👾 Platforms: Steam for PC

💵 Price: USD 6, unpaid demo available

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