Typefighters
Typefighters is a competitive multiplayer game where two players battle each other using their typing skills. Its variety of modes does not only emphasise typing speed and correctness, but also other skills…
Typefighters is an indie, released 18 April 2016 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Typefighters is
Typefighters was released in 2016. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Typefighters is a competitive multiplayer game where two players battle each other using their typing skills. Its variety of modes does not only emphasise typing speed and correctness, but also other skills like reaction time, sustained attention, creativity, tactics and anticipating the opponents moves. Aside from being a tool to settle arguments on who is the best on a keyboard, the game can also be used for training purposes.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Typefighters holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Typefighters launched on 18 April 2016, within three weeks of Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together and Quantum Break. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together, Quantum Break.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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