Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Fishing Cactus · 2016 · Typing, Adventure, Narrative, Exploration, Story Rich
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About Epistory - Typing Chronicles
✦ AI summary
Play as a muse exploring a beautiful origami world where every action—from movement to combat to puzzle-solving—is controlled entirely through keyboard typing. Watch a writer's story unfold in real-time as you gather inspiration, defeat enemies in typing-based battles, and unravel the magical mysteries hidden within her imagination.
Epistory is an atmospheric adventure typing game that tells the story of a writer lacking inspiration who asks her muse to help write her latest book.
In Epistory you play the muse, a fictional character in a world where everything is untold. Your adventure begins on a blank page, but the world will soon become larger and livelier as you gather inspiration, solve its mysteries and defeat its enemies. From movement to opening chests and fighting in epic battles, every element in the game is controlled exclusively with the keyboard.
As you progress and explore the fantasy origami world, the story literally unfolds in the writer’s mind and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.
Features
- Explore a beautiful paper craft world: play as the muse riding a giant three tailed fox, lost in a fantasy 3D world
- More than just typing: solve mysterious puzzles, unlock magic powers and defeat enemies in adrenaline pumping epic combats
- A writer’s block? Collect fragments and inspirations points to unfold the story as you explore the origami world in the writer’s head. But there is more to the story than meets the eye…
- All in keyboard: from movements, combats to even menus, control everything with a keyboard
- Adaptive difficulty: if your hands fly around the keyboard or if you are a slow typist, the game features a dynamic difficulty system that evolves to fit each players’ skill set
- Competitive Arena Mode: challenge other players for the top spot in the arena leaderboards
- Play in your own language: game texts are localized in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Polish with voice overs in English. The game supports several keyboard layouts (QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, BEPO, Dvorak, Workman and Colemak)
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
My girlfriend really enjoy playing this game so much and I think this game gonna be one of the game that she finish. The gameplay is simple and easy to understand even for children to practice their typing. The art is good and the music also relaxing. It also has a little bit of puzzle too which make it more challenging. All seems perfect for me, the voice actor and the story is good. I just don't know why the developer can't make another good game like this. If you manage to find this game on discount just buy it, you won't regret it2 found this helpful
Really enjoyed my time with this one, very inventive and ties typing with a fully realized adventure. Most typing games are just typing exercises with a thin coat of paint. This bucks that trend by feeling like an adventure first and a typing game second, which feels a lot more immersive. Definitely recommended and I wish we had more games in this vein.2 found this helpful
Fanstastically fun, not crazy long. It's got great pacing, with the story slowly doled out like a mystery. It's a little strange in that the chapters are numbered, but you don't necessarily complete them in order - it's whatever order you come across them (e.g., chapter 4 I did before chapter 3). The ending was rather sudden. I would like to have explored all of the rest of the map before coming across the ending, but you can continue after the credits. I suspect there's some more easter eggs for me to find to complete this. Also, be sure to watch through the ending credits - the song is great and well mixed. Good amount of bass, so the ending credits are best with headphones. I think there were some more story clues in the credits. Honestly this ending could have really only been one thing. Worth the money; I'd love to play more games with the same mechanic and maybe different stories swapped in. DLC or a sequel would be welcomed.
So, overall I don't like the game. HOWEVER, it is adorable. The movement is awful. I kept trying to move through the map and lost to walls more often than enemies. The movement is nonsensical to me. E is up-left, F down-left, I up-right, J down-right, and WASD do work as normal. But since you are typing the WASD is not optimal for the combat. The little bit of the story I got to was cute. The literal unfolding of the story is a cool animation. I might try again when I feel more patient.
Story is too vague, keys can be unresponsive if you type too fast. Had a bunch of fun regardless.
Phenomenal game, the gameplay and storyline were both fantastic.
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