Excommunicated

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"Excommunicated" is another one of those attempts at "making typing fun!", but this doesn't make typing better, it just makes gaming a little worse. The premise of the game isn't that bad, there's some narrative, you take on the role of a female investigator (like an investigator who is also female, not an investigator of women) and you have to solve the puzzle of an abandoned space base of some kind. Combat and exploration are accomplished by typing target words as fast as you can. You can also practice your typing by writing thousands of game reviews, like me. I don't recommend it though... the godawful games most people ignore are soul destroying if you play too many of them. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. The develope…

Gives you very little time to type in what you need to before you get attacked. I like the concept of the game but unless you like time limited pressure to act, this may not be the game for you. Rating: 5/10

Not recommended - the core game mechanics are messed up The first hint of the game not being properly thought out was the credits being only in Spanish. Something like five people (tops) worked on the game, so that must have been too much effort to translate a paragraph of text. The game falls apart when it tries to start fights and managing multiple enemies. Get this: the game RANDOMLY BLOCKS INPUTS. That would be normally merely awful, though THIS IS A STRICTLY TIME-LIMITED GAME ALL ABOUT EXTENSIVE KEYBOARD INPUTS. There is a short time at the beginning of encounters where YOU CANNOT SEE THE TYPED WORDS AND THE TIMER IS ALREADY RUNNING because of a black-to-white fade in effect. Here is what the first story fight (against "Engineer") does: 1. You get maybe two rounds at the main enemy. 2. Another enemy pops up. You might be able to defeat it without taking damage despite the busted target switching mechanic blocking inputs. 3. The enemy shoots out three projectiles that almost instantly get grey'd out, meaning you cannot target and hit them. 4. The projectiles un-grey themselves and kill you regardless of your progress so far. It is unplayable. All these issues could hav…

I can't recommend this game but I will say that it is decent. Good concept and is fun to play but falls short on runtime. It is hilariously short, what you see in the trailer is the entire game. I understand that is the point of a trailer but this all happens in a 10-minute span or less if you're good at typing. That elevator shot at the end is where the game ends. There is a plot but you don't get to explore it, again the game ends on the elevator shot hinting at further exploration of the ship. Instead of, you know, LETTING YOU EXPLORING THE SHIP! There's one boss. You cannot change the typing speed. Glitches, like inputs aren't accepted sometimes. Feels unfinished.

If you are learning to type I would not recommend this game. There is no way to adjust the difficulty and little guidance in terms of where to go in terms of game play. I also found that the set controls did not respond the way they were suppose to. If you have a solid of how to type than give it a go.