Mistyped To Death! Blood Typers Review
Hardest and most horrifying typing test I've taken.
Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this product from https://www.keymailer.co
Developer/publisher: Outer Brain Studios
Price: $9.99
Loved Typing of the Dead but wished you could type all over everything? Well, this game had my fingers bleeding, and aching. Blood Typers is a survival horror adventure game where you must type to shoot, hit, open doors, and anything else you can think of! It’s a survival horror game that requires only quick thinking, and quick typing.
A Once In A Lifetime Chance To Die For
You’re part of the Shutterhouse film crew who got invited by Vincent Fessler, a horror movie legend, who has loved your team’s work. Although, it’s kind of strange, considering no one has heard or seen him in over five years. But this could be your team’s big break, and so you all set off to meet up with him in, what seems like, the middle of nowhere, and the perfect setting for horrors to occur.
And they truly occur.
Horror movies have turned into a horrifying reality! Zombies, fleshy floating thingamajigs, fleshy masses with televisions that spew those fleshy freaks, and much more.
Where is Vincent Fessler? Was this his plan all along? How is all this happening?
Typing Through The Horrors
Those of you who love Typing of the Dead and Resident Evil will be happy to know that their baby, Blood Typers, is really something fun, and unique. Never would I think that walking by a zombie to save ammo, and time, could be so hard when under pressure.
Everything in Blood Typers is activated through inputs. You move by typing out words that are placed on the floor, like a grid system. You grab weapons by typing, “grab [weapon’s name],” and you eat your food to heal yourself by equipping it and typing, “eat [food’s name].” Everything is oddly sensical, responsive, and quick.
By hitting tab, you switch into a combat mode, which will lock you into an enemy and words will be floating in front of them; typing them out will count as a hit, and once you deplete all words, you deplete their lives.
After hearing all this, you could be thinking, “Sounds kind of intense, and I’m not a very fast typer, specially in stressful moments where the T.V. monsters are spewing fleshy face monsters to kill me,” and I have great news for you!
Typing and survival horror difficulties are two independent difficulties. If the survival horror aspect of the game is too easy but the typing isn’t your forte, you can adjust, and if you want the typing to be harder and the survival horror to be average, you can also do that. And if you want to be a machoistic, you can be like us and crank both up. We did learn quickly that we weren’t built for that.
But what are all these mechanics without a diverse cast crazy people? I mean, you have to be crazy to follow through all this considering the email and all that.
Each playable character represents a role in a film crew. From gaffer to wardrobe, to storyboard artist and set builder, there’s a benefit to each, as each role is essential in reality, each role here helps a lot in their own way. See enemies through walls, cook meals, slow people down with you lights, and more.
After you have your psycho picked and everyone’s ready to go and survive, you go through rooms, collect keys to open doors, to find the needed number of red tapes, get the lever from the elevator, escape through it, and repeat. It’s a simple loop.
Just keep an eye at the top right, the horde comes crashing in at 100%. But don’t worry, you got your arsenal: Flamethrower, Uzi, Magnum, Necronomicon, eh, Necrolexicon. There’s a good amount of weapon for a good amount of situations.
Pros
It’s a unique twist to the survival horror genre, fresh for both typists and horror fans alike.
Through my hours of gameplay, it feels like it’s a competent mix of both. The typing is just hard enough and intuitive enough, and the survival horror aspect meshes well with it.
Independent difficulties.
You can adjust it to where you’re most comfortable without sacrificing what you’re stronger in.
Great with people.
Yell at your friends for not helping you or for mistyping a lot. Give them a piece of moldy looking cheese or meat you found around in a decrepit mansion. The horrors make people fumble, and that’s when it’s the funniest.
Price.
Now I only mention this because, even as this has five levels, it’s a very inexpensive game with more than a couple of hours of gameplay, fun, and laughs.
Lore in the words.
I thought it was very cool and unique that the words type are tied into what’s happening. Though, while not always. It was a fun and unique approach to storytelling.
Cons
Underdeveloped lore.
While the story’s premise is neat, and the way a portion of it was conveyed was cool, it felt like it needed a bit more. While there were notes scattered around the map, it was not until the last level where I felt I was a part of the story.
Odd looking characters.
The characters can be a little odd looking, others more than some. I think it’s because of the hair that kind of gives it this greasy spaghetti hair.
Grammatical Errors, amirite?
Blood Typers was a blast to play. While at the beginning it did make my fingers ache, I guess they adjusted themselves to the stress, and the pressure. The game may be short, especially considering people’s standards nowadays, but for me it felt short because it felt like all the story bits and unique levels were loaded in the back.
It makes me think of how short stories are made. Short stories, as you could imagine, are short, and don’t have the same leisure as novels have, and so they have to make every characterization, every voice, and word count. Playing the third level hyped me up to what else could be thrown at me, the fourth even more, that it was kind of a bummer to just have it end there right afterwards.
Nevertheless, I couldn’t recommend this more to typing game fans. It’s a competent survival horror, a solid typing game, and a horrifying experience where death is just a typo away at a great price.
Highly Recommended
To those who enjoy typing, and killing while they do it.
You guys like typing games? Horror games? Any you’d recommend? Let me know below!
Nice review! I have a few friends who love typing games so I am going to recommend this one to them. 🫡