The Typing of the Dead: Overkill Review | Genre Whiplash Done Right

You may not think it, but this is honestly quite a competent (and remarkably fun) game, while equally competent as a typing tutor.

On the one hand, we have a polished game, with basic typing mechanics that create an addicting gameplay loop and flow, all while following a loose narrative that’s crazy enough to keep you chuckling and entertained for at least your first time through each of its levels.

On the other hand, we have a relatively competent typing learning software, where you can improve your typing skills by being put under pressure to type more accurately, and faster than you may ever have had to before, scoring your attempts at the end of each stage to accurately reflect you did.

The marriage of these two ideas seems like it would give you some kind of mental whiplash, but it makes for a very compelling game on its own. But the Steam workshop makes this such a better bargain. Being able to mod in whatever words and phrases you want, to appear in the game, is such a welcome novelty, and makes it so you can change how the game feels whenever you’re playing. You might be limited in the number of prompts per stage, but you could go from typing out poorly worded questions from…