Touch Type Tale - Strategic Typing Reviews

This game tricks you into learning. Perfect!

I liked a lot about this game. I bought it on sale after playing the demo (not included in my hours played here). Despite personally disliking the art direction (not for its lack of effort), I found the core game mechanic to be extremely compelling. The typing mechanics and sound design are super satisfying. I'm a 100wpm typer but a rookie RTStrategist, so I played on Normal (Difficulty options range Easy-Normal-Hard-Harder-Hardest) and found it a good challenge. Where this game fails: investing too much into a fundamentally poor art and story direction. There's voice acted and fully voice acted cutscenes that serve as the narrative core, explaining the different map themes you play through in the campaign. Despite the clear amount of production that went into it, there's very little about the main character, the faux-medieval world, or character design that made me want to care about it. The plot almost gets interesting at times, like realizations that (mild plot spoilers) [spoiler] the MC is being manipulated by kings MC is helping, or that he sides with rebels that he himself helped imprison [/spoiler] but are so... surface level and boringly written? that the cutscenes are a drag to get through. If you're a narrative-leaning gamer like me, this will drive you nuts. Pure gameplay enjoyers likely won't care. I had to put the game down and leave this review when the art direction got so mind-boggling Orientalist that it gave me a sour feeling in my stomach. I might keep playing because I already bought the game, but I don't really want to support the devs anymore. I might check out Glyphica for another typing strategy, and (if you were hoping this game would scratch this particular itch like I did) I would strongly recommend Pentiment for a visually and narratively beautiful Medieval themed game.

Very addictive typing game, great story/lore, and good difficulty scaling. Would recommend if you like typing games.

Nice game with strategic elements. Maybe i am lazy but it is very cozy to just lay your hands on the keyboard and type. Haven't tried PvP yet.

Great game, very nicely done, catchy, with a diverse gameplay, personally love it !

It's an RTS that you play by typing. And it's pretty good! Pretty fun story. Definitely helps with touch typing. There's a couple dozen levels (with 5 difficulties), several minigames, a skirmish mode, PvP, and probably other stuff. Absolutely recommend!

OH. MY. GOODNESS. This game is SO GOOD. It is a rare game up there with TYPING OF THE DEAD, but a dream for strategists and tacticians! It is excellent for teaching typing as well as upping your typing game. My daughter plays and is getting better and better as I watch her . . . and is asking to play . . . and, as someone who types 8 hours a day at work, this game is much better than TotD at actually getting my speed up because it rewards not making errors. I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!! Using a keyboard in RL is always faster than mouse, and this game allows you to leverage that superpower in a rare game that leverages the keyboard. BEANO WUV TOUCH TYPE TALE!

Annoyingly difficult. The same procedure for most levels. Sometimes there is a checkpoint at the first building your create and sometimes there isn't. If you try it on harder difficulties, it is such a slog. If you don't, you can't unlock a level and 40% of the locked content. While I enjoyed the game enough to beat it, I have never been so frustrated.

I liked the game, but can't recommend it, due to weird design decision. Some of the missions are locked with requiring "stars", as in beating previous levels on certain difficulty. I was already playing game on hard (3/5 diff), but the very last additional mission actually requires you to complete ~90% of the game on very hard (4/5). I got to the end and in order to unlock that mission, I'd have to replay almost whole game on very hard diff.