
A well-crafted action experience, Epistory - Typing Chronicles is well worth your time.
89
Verdict
95%
Steam
83
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (95% positive from 6.8K reviews)
Critically acclaimed (83/100 critic average)
Compelling narrative and story
Rich open world to explore
No significant drawbacks reported
Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a 2016 action-adventure, typing video game developed by Fishing Cactus. The game was released on Steam Early Access in September 2015 and was officially released on March 30, 2016, for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and OS X, and on February 2, 2021 for Stadia. In the game, a young girl rides a fox with three tails. The game's story follows a writer's writing process, which unfolds like paper on-screen and is narrated from the perspective of the writer's internal thoughts. The game later received a spiritual sequel, Nanotale - Typing Chronicles.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 1d ago
Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a simple game based around the idea of well.. typing. It's basically a type the word to fight game, where when you complete the word on the enemy, it gets strike. You have 4 elemental powers to play with to fend off waves of enemies at certain locations which can be considered the challanging part. You have a bit of exploration, unlocking chests and getting some fragments. You have some very light progression system where you can get upgrades for your character. Overall in the 6 hours runtime I had fun, the first 3 hours were like 8s and 9s because of the fun gameplay loop. Problem is towards the 5 hour mark you already notice a lot of the game flaws. My biggest gripe is the story is kind of scattered brain? like I couldn't follow any of it. And then there's also the fact that some powers are more useless than others and how the elemental triggers only if there's another word adding for the challange but confusing sometimes. Worse is for the lightning weapon you get you can't really judge the distance between the enemies so you end up guessing "is this going to hit the other gigantic word". Overall I think you will have a good fun and this is why I recommend this game. But there are some flaws I'd be happy to see improved on if they ever make a sequel (or someone makes a similar game).
This game was, and still is, a little difficult. However, as my typing gets better, I literally feel like a wizard. It's so unbelieably fun. Also, the ESDF mod made the controls much easier for me. I'm still pretty early in the game, and I am really looking forward to when my skill actually gets good.l
I don't usually leave game reviews but Epistory is one of my favourite games of all time! The graphics and design are beautiful, and the gameplay is just fantastic... the puzzles and typing challenges are so much fun and even now I've finished the main storyline I still regularly play on the arena mode! It's made my typing speed much faster and also expanded my vocabulary while also being super fun.
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