English Is Hard_
The Klertsons · 2023 · Typing, Action, Casual, Education, Shooter
PC
Positive94% · 49
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About English Is Hard_
Keeping a cow farm is hard enough, but now there's aliens coming for your bovine buddies!
Use your barn cannon to shoot down the aggressive extraterrestrials and protect your cows from being carried off to an untimely demise. If your cannon is too weak, brush up on your typing skills to empower it and wreak havoc on those angry aliens!
Wave after wave of diverse aliens will come for your cattle. Use your barn bannon, type power-up words, and destroy cataclysmic meteors so that your animal friends can live for as long as possible. You're only competing against yourself; see if you can manage to get the high score!
If you want to protect your cows, you'll need to master your aim, as well as your typing talent. With skill and a little bit of luck, you can set the new high score! At the end of the day, English ain't that hard!
- A mouse-aimed cannon that gets stronger the more you type
- Endless, randomized waves with a variety of enemy types
- Powerups to give you the upper hand against the alien onslaught
- A high score that you can beat and replace with your own
This game was developed as a student project at DigiPen Institute of Technology and was created for educational purposes only. Please check out our publisher page for more information.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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English Is Hard combines typing practice with arcade shooter mechanics in a quirky premise about defending cows from aliens, offering a genuinely unique concept that stands out as a small indie project. Players praise its clever blend of skills, solid technical quality, and addictive highscore chasing, though some find the gameplay loop not engaging enough for extended play and note balance issues with power-ups that are hard to read mid-action. The game succeeds as a casual time-killer for vocabulary practice and multitasking improvement, but may lack the depth to hold interest for players se
English Is Hard_ is the kind of small-scale indie project that immediately distinguishes itself through a sharply defined concept and an almost stubborn commitment to that idea. Developed by The Klertsons and published by DigiPen Institute of Technology, it takes something as mundane as typing practice and fuses it with the urgency of an arcade defense shooter, resulting in a hybrid that feels both playful and unexpectedly demanding. The premise is intentionally absurd—protecting a rural farm and its cows from relentless alien abduction—but that lighthearted framing works in the game’s favor, making it approachable while quietly setting the stage for a surprisingly intense gameplay loop. What makes the experience stand out is how it forces the player to juggle two entirely different skill sets at once. On one hand, you are manually aiming and firing a cannon at incoming threats, tracking multiple targets across the screen in real time. On the other, you are typing words that directly influence your ability to fight back. This isn’t a superficial add-on; the typing mechanic is deeply integrated into the combat system, meaning your speed and accuracy translate into tangible in-game …1 found this helpful
Not bad just not interesting enough. Since it is made with unity and coming out of DigiPen there are few bugs but nothing game breaking. I got a record high score off 600k something so I that's cool :) If you are looking to kill some time and compete with highscores this is okay.1 found this helpful
They took my cows ;(
I wandered into this game expecting the typical conjunction of typing and gaming; I quickly found that there was a much more vibrant pace to it thanks to the mouse and click determining your rate of fire, rather than my expectation of typing to fire. The power-ups seemed at an odd balance of not even being able to read what type it is before I type the word, and a number of them had odd effects such as the cowbell which scooted my cows closer to the barn, yet it seems that having your cows spread apart allows them more time between each other if they get caught. On the other hand, in my second of two games, it was far easier to manage the funnel of enemies flowing to my last remaining cow on the far left side; there even seemed to be a bug where a handful of aliens simply ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off after going toward that side of the screen. The game is a markedly thrilling Nerve game, and a beater where the dimensions of input are the sum of niche speed-typing and the more standard gun-ball-goal affair, and that complexity allows for diversity in dexterity between both-hand typing and shooting while typing one-handed. I think the enemy diversity is nearly perfect, although the final enemy didn't…
A good way to learn English vocabulary and improve typing speed, while also enhancing precision, mouse movement, and multitasking skills. 😊
Pretty fun, interesting design
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