Epistory - Typing Chronicles

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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 54 Ratings

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  1. GAMERamble
    Apr 19, 2016
    9
    Basing an entire game around typing is not a new idea, but Epistory does it extremely well and never feels like it is an “edutainment” title. It has a vibrant game world to explore along with plenty of enemies to kill and puzzles to solve. Seeing as the entire game is keyboard driven and requires lots of typing it is a bit of a niche title, but definitely worth the effort. Unless youBasing an entire game around typing is not a new idea, but Epistory does it extremely well and never feels like it is an “edutainment” title. It has a vibrant game world to explore along with plenty of enemies to kill and puzzles to solve. Seeing as the entire game is keyboard driven and requires lots of typing it is a bit of a niche title, but definitely worth the effort. Unless you absolutely hate typing or still get by using only one finger Epistory should not be missed.… Expand
  2. CoryMcQ
    Apr 8, 2016
    8
    I decided to give Epistory a try yesterday. Comparative review: Bastion meets Typing of the Dead with a touch of Zelda.

    It tells its story in a very interesting way. Literally a storybook that's being created as you move about the world. The core mechanic is switching into a "typing mode" and quickly typing out words hovering over the environment, chests, and enemies. Typing quickly    I decided to give Epistory a try yesterday. Comparative review: Bastion meets Typing of the Dead with a touch of Zelda.

    It tells its story in a very interesting way. Literally a storybook that's being created as you move about the world. The core mechanic is switching into a "typing mode" and quickly typing out words hovering over the environment, chests, and enemies. Typing quickly extends a combo meter and when the meter is finished, it adds XP to your level bar. The XP bar gates abilities and places you can go. As you unlock new areas, new dungeons are discovered. Within these dungeons are "tools" that grant you new special abilities. The two I've encountered so far is my attacks/typing are now Fire & Ice based. By entering "typing mode" I can switch between them by typing "fire" or "ice". Fire burns enemies after the first correctly spelled word (most enemies take two words to defeat) and Ice will stop an enemy for a period of time. Since your character dies after being touched by an enemy, combat consists of using your typing skills to pick the right targets and switching between your two attacks.

    My only criticism is that the movement is a little clunky. It Tries to teach you an alternative control screen at the start of the game but I found myself naturally using WASD to move. It works well enough and you can quickly put points into movement speed (and a sprint skill) but traversing the world feels very rigid.

    Apparently the difficulty adjusts as you play the game. The worse you are at typing, the easier the words are. I spend my entire day typing so I'm getting some very long and difficult words thrown at me. There have been a few occasions where part of a word was not inputted since I was typing too fast. This isn't a normal occurrence, however.

    Did I mention you are a young girl riding around on a fox being narrated by a the author writing a book? I probably should have mentioned that.

    I really recommend this. Despite it being very Bastion, it's incredibly unique.    … Expand
  3. blasttypist
    Apr 29, 2016
    9
    Epistory is indeed a typing game, but this is one of the most incredible and unique games I have played in a while. The art and storytelling in this game is phenomenal. It's all typing but the gameplay and the mechanics that are used in this game are so much fun to use and varied that it creates nice combos and you never get bored.

    The storytelling is such that you want to find all the    Epistory is indeed a typing game, but this is one of the most incredible and unique games I have played in a while. The art and storytelling in this game is phenomenal. It's all typing but the gameplay and the mechanics that are used in this game are so much fun to use and varied that it creates nice combos and you never get bored.

    The storytelling is such that you want to find all the collectables because the art design and story are just beautiful. A writer myself typing the words to push the story forward, feels almost like asking me to write the story a little and that's very fullfilling. Epistory is one of those games like Journey, Brothers, Undertale, Bastion, a true indie gem that deserves to be better known!    … Expand
  4. otisurdoden
    Apr 28, 2016
    9
    Epistory est un jeu assez unique en son genre qui combine aussi bien des aspects RPG que de l'aventure. Tirant ses inspirations aussi de Bastion (coté aventure et découverte) que de Typing of the Dead (pour sa mécanique au clavier), le jeu est une petite pépite indé pour tout ceux qui cherchent quelque chose de frais.
  5. Sjalka
    Oct 7, 2016
    9
    I love and adore the graphical style. It is light hearted and also light in its origami pape style. The colour palette gives it a sort of 1960s look (or at least that is the pastell colouring that i personally associate with the 60s...)

    Well - there is not much to say... The game difficulty felt rather high for a non native speaker/typer - but managable. (although i would not    I love and adore the graphical style. It is light hearted and also light in its origami pape style. The colour palette gives it a sort of 1960s look (or at least that is the pastell colouring that i personally associate with the 60s...)

    Well - there is not much to say...

    The game difficulty felt rather high for a non native speaker/typer - but managable. (although i would not recommend this game to someone with poor typing skills or people who are not familiar with typing with 10 fingers)
    It does a very good job making typing fun.

    The story itself could have been more engaging - more interesting and mature - ... but it is alright in the end.
    I give this game a high score of 9/10 because ..

    .. it is very well done, pretty and fun...
    .. and because it is fairly unique (well - yes.. there is typing of the dead and a few very low budget typing "games" ...but still unique enough)    … Expand
  6. IndieCoinCoin
    Sep 6, 2016
    9
    Epistory est une vraie belle surprise! Une perle indé pleine de charme, de poésie et un jeu entièrement jouable en Français. La bande sonore et les voix sont en anglais pour le moment, mais l'interface, les textures et le texte sont en Français.

    Avec un visuel à l’aspect très léché qui rappelle l’origami et Okami, le jeu explore des mécaniques tout au clavier (comme Typing of the Dead).    Epistory est une vraie belle surprise! Une perle indé pleine de charme, de poésie et un jeu entièrement jouable en Français. La bande sonore et les voix sont en anglais pour le moment, mais l'interface, les textures et le texte sont en Français.

    Avec un visuel à l’aspect très léché qui rappelle l’origami et Okami, le jeu explore des mécaniques tout au clavier (comme Typing of the Dead). Les contrôles sont donc un peu originaux, mais le gros avantage est que le jeu est adapté à tous les claviers possibles (AZERTY, QWERTY, QWERTZ, etc.), c’est bien pensé et on se laisse rapidement gagner par la facilité d’utilisation. L’histoire même si elle peut paraître simple peut vous emmener loin si vous vous laissez prendre par celle-ci.
    Finalement le jeu dispose d’une ambiance très sereine et finalement assez peu violente ce qui permet à toute la famille d’y jouer.

    Une belle réussite qui mérite d’être mieux connue !    … Expand
  7. gameintheattic
    Sep 6, 2016
    10
    So I'm more a RPG/ Strategy game player. So picking up a game where you're a girl riding a fox through a whimsical land is not something I would normally pick up. But god, i'm glad I did, the art style is sublime, the music enchanting and the gameplay addictive and tense during final battles; it is here that your typing skills will really be put to the test especially when multi elementalSo I'm more a RPG/ Strategy game player. So picking up a game where you're a girl riding a fox through a whimsical land is not something I would normally pick up. But god, i'm glad I did, the art style is sublime, the music enchanting and the gameplay addictive and tense during final battles; it is here that your typing skills will really be put to the test especially when multi elemental enemy types are skittering their way toward you.

    Purging the landscape you explore of the insectoid corruption is satisfying while making things grow to the- already mentioned- enchanting soundtrack is cathartic.

    A true Indie gem that deserve much more attention!.    … Expand
  8. TitaniumDragon
    Sep 4, 2016
    5
    Epistory is a typing action game. You control a young lady who rides a fox around the world. In order to progress, you must hit the space bar, then type words which pop up over various items of scenery – or various enemies.

    At its heart, this is a very simple game – you spend most of your time either running around on your fox solving simple 2D overhead puzzles, or you are fighting    Epistory is a typing action game. You control a young lady who rides a fox around the world. In order to progress, you must hit the space bar, then type words which pop up over various items of scenery – or various enemies.

    At its heart, this is a very simple game – you spend most of your time either running around on your fox solving simple 2D overhead puzzles, or you are fighting enemies. Many enemies simply appear around levels, but there are 24 pitched battles throughout the game where you stand stationary while waves of enemies come at you. It is here that the game is at its most intense, and where strategy is most meaningful.

    But even still, there isn’t much.

    Over the course of the game, you unlock four special magical powers – a fire power (which burns away the next word over the head of a multi-hit enemy), an ice power (which freezes multi-hit enemies in place), a lightning power (which jumps from enemy to enemy if you hit an enemy with at least two words left, allowing you to greatly diminish what is coming at you), and a wind power (which allows you to blow back enemies, which is pretty much the weakest power in the game as the spark power is almost always more useful).

    You also gain experience points which allow you to upgrade your powers. If you are reasonably decent at stringing together kills, you can probably cap out your experience before the last three dungeons, at which point it is largely pointless. This experience allows you to upgrade your powers, your fox’s speed, and give you some convenient abilities, such as the ability to see things on your overworld map, and the ability to teleport to the entrance of the dungeon of your choice.

    There are various collectables in the game, hidden in treasure chests, and the game mixes up the combat a little bit by facing you off against some enemies who can only be harmed by a specific magical power (which you switch between by typing Fire, Ice, Spark, and Wind). The enemies themselves are pretty samey, with the main difference being number of hit points and the complexity of the words which pop up over their head. As you progress deeper into the game, you’ll face off with enemies which have extremely long words over their heads, and if you play the arena mode, you can even face off against enemies with words from medical dictionaries which are several dozen words long.

    Sadly, while the base mechanic is kind of a cute idea, in the end the game never really does anything very impressive. The story is not very involving, and while the voice-over work is good, the lack of anything really interesting coming out of the story renders it somewhat moot – more like background noise than anything. The game is reasonably visually attractive as well, with everything having a construction paper, cut paper, or origami aesthetic, but in the end, all of that is window dressing for the core action – and the core action, while okay, simply isn’t anything special.

    This game isn’t bad. It is just kind of mediocre, and I don’t think there’s much reason to go out of your way to play it.    … Expand
  9. somedude14
    Mar 19, 2017
    7
    Indie adventure RPG with typing as the combat system. Collect elements in each temple to solve its puzzles. Elements also have different effects when used in combat - fire destroys an extra word on an enemy, ice freezes that enemy, and so on. Leveling up gives skill points to enhance elements, increase XP gain, boost speed of world traversal, and mark points of interest. Has a decentIndie adventure RPG with typing as the combat system. Collect elements in each temple to solve its puzzles. Elements also have different effects when used in combat - fire destroys an extra word on an enemy, ice freezes that enemy, and so on. Leveling up gives skill points to enhance elements, increase XP gain, boost speed of world traversal, and mark points of interest. Has a decent chunk of side content, but easy to max character stats without. Story and narration are low points, ending is so cringey it's comedic. Over in just over four hours unless you're an achievement hunter, which at time of this review are present on Steam, while absent from Origin.… Expand
  10. ave
    Jan 8, 2018
    9
    It is often said that it is harder to convey emotion through gameplay than words or visuals, but Epistory disprove that.

    By using the typing as a core mechanic to progress within the game, and carefully choosing the words to type, as a player, we literally "play" the story threads, and can sometimes foreshadow the ending. Progressing in the game "feels" like reading a book, almost    It is often said that it is harder to convey emotion through gameplay than words or visuals, but Epistory disprove that.

    By using the typing as a core mechanic to progress within the game, and carefully choosing the words to type, as a player, we literally "play" the story threads, and can sometimes foreshadow the ending.

    Progressing in the game "feels" like reading a book, almost with the tactile sensation of turning the pages. The art style is just perfect, and on top of that, overcoming the waves of enemies by typing fast and switching powers is really rewarding. It is almost as if you can feel the power of the words coming from your tip of your fingers.

    Congratulations to the team!    … Expand
  11. Mandulum
    Aug 2, 2017
    8
    Five Word Review: First typing game experience positive.
    Favorite Thing: I didn't know what to expect going into this but I was pleasantly surprised by the exploration and challenge.
    Lease Favorite Thing: No matter my graphical setting, every second there would be a short hiccup and the game would freeze. Date Completed: 2017-08-02 Playtime: 5.5h Enjoyment: 8/10 Recommendation: If    Five Word Review: First typing game experience positive.
    Favorite Thing: I didn't know what to expect going into this but I was pleasantly surprised by the exploration and challenge.
    Lease Favorite Thing: No matter my graphical setting, every second there would be a short hiccup and the game would freeze.

    Date Completed: 2017-08-02
    Playtime: 5.5h
    Enjoyment: 8/10
    Recommendation: If you are decent at typing then absolutely.    … Expand
  12. PublicNuisance
    Aug 27, 2021
    7
    Epistory: Typing Chronicles had a great start to it and had me loving it’s game play; it’s mysterious story unfolding and it’s origami visual style. By the end though it managed to fizzle out in various ways but still was a good game. Sometimes when a game goes from great to just good the feeling of disappointment lingers more than if it were never great to begin with. The game play isEpistory: Typing Chronicles had a great start to it and had me loving it’s game play; it’s mysterious story unfolding and it’s origami visual style. By the end though it managed to fizzle out in various ways but still was a good game. Sometimes when a game goes from great to just good the feeling of disappointment lingers more than if it were never great to begin with. The game play is surprisingly engaging. I have never played a typing game before so it was more tense and I got into things more than I expected to. The voice acting was very well done and the story starts off as the telling of a girl’s tale and you learning more about their life as they remember more and more. The game handles exploration well and you need to not only find reveal points to be able to see more of the map but have enough XP to unlock them. You also gain points to use to unlock skills to help tailor the game to your liking. That being said I never fell short and there are always enough ways to gain XP. This actually became somewhat of an issue later on as I maxed out all of my skills with over an hour left in the game. XP after that was pointless as it couldn’t be used. The difficulty curve was another issue. I started the game off on the “insane” difficulty and for about the next five hours the game was what I would call challenging but fair. I died a bit but I always felt like I could tweak my strategy of what powers to use; which enemies I target first; etc and often I was correct and found ways to advance. During and after the mining level however the nests I encountered forced me to reduce the difficulty bit by bit until by the end I was at the “easiest” difficulty level. Not only that but I was having a tough time advancing even on that lowest level. There were no more skills I could upgrade and strategies can only be tweaked so much. This difficulty curve overall is nothing short of ludicrous and not a good design idea. One idea I would have liked to see was a health bar as you can only sustain being touched by an enemy once but several enemies can have multiple words you have to type in order to defeat them. At least having this on the lower difficulty levels or as a toggle option would have been nice. The puzzles you have to solve were fun and interesting to a point although a tad over done for some. For instance figuring out how to make three windmills spin at once was a good puzzle the first time but mundane by the fourth or fifth time. One thing I will also mention is that I found the game sometimes didn’t do a good job figuring out which word I was starting to spell if multiple enemies on screen had a similar word and it would act as if I wasn’t spelling it correctly because I was trying to target another enemy. I don’t have a good solution for this though. By the end even the mysterious story kind of fizzled out and at the end it just kinds of ends with little explanation or wrapping up of the plot.

    I played Epistory on Linux. It froze on me once during play but I encountered no other bugs. There was one graphics setting. Alt-Tab didn’t work. The game saves upon exiting and there is just the one save file. The performance was a mixed bag. Often times it ran just fine at a constant 60 FPS but it would dip sometimes down to the 40’s and the graphical detail wasn’t justifying this on my hardware. Don’t get me wrong the game is pretty and has a great art style but this should of ran at a constant 60 with no drops. There is a 60 FPS lock that can’t be disabled or changed. You can change difficulty at any time and there is an “adaptive difficulty” option.

    Game Engine: Unity
    Game Version Played: 1.4
    Graphics API: OpenGL
    Disk Space Used: 1.3 GB
    Save System: Upon Exit

    Graphics Settings Used: Fantastic, 1920x1080
    GPU Usage: 0-47 %
    VRAM Usage: 500-1273 MB
    CPU Usage: 3-19 %
    RAM Usage: 1.9-3.1 GB
    Frame Rate: 43-60 FPS

    Despite it all I was charmed by Epistory and believe it is a good game overall that just had some poor design choices and could use some optimizations. It’s presentation; core game play and world are top notch. I paid $7.39 for Epistory and finished it in 7 hours and 11 minutes. Overall aside from the poor wrap up to the ending it felt like a good length and value.

    My Score: 7/10

    My System:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 21.1.3 | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB | Manjaro 21.1.0 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 5.13.11-190.current    … Expand
  13. shado474
    Jan 21, 2018
    8
    An interesting concept in a beautiful environment that unfolds as you progress in the game. This title's mysterious atmosphere and narration hold a surprisingly deep story that feels fresh from the start and ends wonderfully.
  14. aditya1101
    Oct 5, 2017
    9
    Easily one of the most surprising games I've ever played. I absolutely adore the game. At its core it's quite simple - it's just a typing game, which has been made a hundred times over. But the art, the atmosphere, the story, and the way that the typing was integrated into the gameplay made this game an absolute treat to play. I was completely engrossed from start to finish.
  15. Mobile
    May 1, 2018
    6
    ENG
    A cute game with a sad story. Could be better, though we are told through words and the environment about the fate of the heroine, when we come to the end we explain everything quite quickly and crumpled, which is not much upset, so the game would be even better. Perfect for those who want to try out the new keyboard in action, or just learn faster/better to print, plus after passing    ENG
    A cute game with a sad story. Could be better, though we are told through words and the environment about the fate of the heroine, when we come to the end we explain everything quite quickly and crumpled, which is not much upset, so the game would be even better. Perfect for those who want to try out the new keyboard in action, or just learn faster/better to print, plus after passing you can go to the arena and to continue to improve, as well the achievements that are pushing to be better. The words are repeated quite often and you can roughly estimate how many of them were invented, it would be better if there were more variety in them. But it will come down, these games are quite small, and then there is also the performance is not quite ordinary. I almost forgot about a couple of points to mention: when a lot of enemies that the words are confused, some are seen, some do not appear immediately, but the main disadvantage is the silent Fox and a girl and a complete lack of humor or pleasant moments.
    RU
    Милая игра с грустной историей. Могло быть и лучше, хоть нам и рассказывают через слова и окружение о судьбе героини, когда мы приходим к концовке нам объясняют все довольно быстро и скомкано, что не много огорчило, так бы игра была бы еще лучше. Отлично подойдет для тех кто хочет опробовать новую клавиатуру в действии или просто научится быстрее/лучше печатать, плюс после прохождение можно зайти на арену и продолжать совершенствоваться, так же ачивки которые подстегивают быть лучше. Слова довольно часто повторяются и можно примерно прикинуть сколько их было придумано, было бы лучше если бы больше было в них разнообразия. Но и так сойдет, игр таких довольно мало, а тут еще и исполнение вполне не заурядное. Чуть не забыл про пару пунктов упомянуть: когда много врагов то слова путаются, некоторых не видно, некоторые появляются не сразу, но и главный минус так это молчаливый лис и девочка и полное отсутствие юмора или приятных моментов.    … Expand
  16. SinitarGaming
    Jul 14, 2018
    9
    Have you ever imagined a mix of beautiful adventure in origamy-looking fantasy world and RPG, where effectiveness, speed and combo strength of your characters skill depends on your typing skill?
    Me neither. Though it's not only just possible, but results in one of the most charming, original and somewhat addictive game I played this year.
    Epistory is a mix of adventure when you found    Have you ever imagined a mix of beautiful adventure in origamy-looking fantasy world and RPG, where effectiveness, speed and combo strength of your characters skill depends on your typing skill?
    Me neither. Though it's not only just possible, but results in one of the most charming, original and somewhat addictive game I played this year.

    Epistory is a mix of adventure when you found yourself in fantasy paper world on the back of giant fox. You have no idea what you're doing here, lost in it, and wandering around, opening new locations and new secrets, you collecting shards of your own memory, building a storyline around yourself. But the most original part here is that absolutely EVERYTHING is controlled by your typing. Be it obstacle blocking your way, a chest with treasures or hungry enemy - you'll the words, typing which correctly will launch an attack, so your ingame progress is directly dependant on your typing skills. Expirience gained depends on the very same - eac htime you hit something, you have decent timespan to hit again to stack the expirience bonus, so the more continuos typings you will make, the more expirience you can get in the same situation. It also has classic RPG elements - for your actions you receive upgrade points which you can spend on plenty of combat and utility skills. Increase your speed passively, sprint, make more powerful combos, knockback your enemies, master 4 different elements - fire, spark, ice and wind for various elemental bonuses and crowd control.

    Epistory walkthrough itself is literally a book that you are writing on fly. Evertyhing you do has an impact on a world around you, it appears as writings on the earth and walls, voiced by the storyteller. While you are starting without any knowledge of what's happening, just a few minutes later you're getting into it, completely getting used to the shape of your protagonist. The deep, magical voice of female storyteller is just great - after some time your are starting to understand that this voice became one of the reasons you're playing through storyline - to just hear it.

    Beautiful semi-2dimensional world with paper art style, vibrant and each time different looking levels, beautiful soundtrack are only adding to the charm of this game. And that's no matter if you are an MMO veteran and have insane typing skills or just a person who was intrigued by this game, don't worry - ingame diccifulty is adaptive, meaning that if you are typing slow, it will give you more simple words, if you're typing fast - you will have enough challenge to be satisfied and not get bored. There is also an arena mode where you control fully-developed hero with all skills and your task is to survive as long as possible in endless waves on enemies, and your result you can share and see in global rating of all Epistory players.

    From the cons I can probbaly name two. From time to time, just a bit clunky movement controls system, but that's what yo ucan easily get used to and it doesn't affect the combat, as in most of important battles your character is standing until the battle is complete. Second one is that veriety of enemies in game could be bigger - there are like 5 or 6 enemy models in total, different mostly only in stats and element type. But this is more like "what would make this game absolute amazing" than "it's a big problem" - because during gameplay, you're not focusing in enemies apperance - you need to focus on typing.

    Besides definitely original and, I'd say, addictive gameplay, this game will also inmprove your typing skills and vocabulary. Dive into beautiful-shaped storyline, listen to bewitching voice acting, and levelup both the skills of your character AND your own language and typing skills. That's just a one great combination!    … Expand
  17. Tomicsavo
    May 2, 2020
    9
    Cozy, nice game. Many times you can’t pay attention to what the story is because you have to focus on typing. If someone can type well you can go through the game quickly.
  18. jsommer7345
    Sep 10, 2022
    6
    This game is a great way to learn how to type on the computer. It works! I frequently got lost in this game, and playing the story mode can sometimes be tricky as the puzzles sometimes take over the typing in the game. I wish the game focused more on the arena aspect and the fighting aspect of the game. Instead, the game puts much time into random puzzles, and I didn't buy the game forThis game is a great way to learn how to type on the computer. It works! I frequently got lost in this game, and playing the story mode can sometimes be tricky as the puzzles sometimes take over the typing in the game. I wish the game focused more on the arena aspect and the fighting aspect of the game. Instead, the game puts much time into random puzzles, and I didn't buy the game for puzzles but wanted to learn to type better. Because of its lengthy puzzles and running around the world map, I was just okay with this game, and likely won't play it.… Expand
  19. Animus_V0x
    Jul 25, 2022
    9
    I had a surprisingly good time on this game. First time for me trying a typing kind of game and i really liked the idea.
  20. yazazuyo
    Aug 10, 2023
    10
    I love this. It has a world that is build up out of pages of the book. It builds when you unlock new areas. The switching between normal and typing mode in very cool. It's a cool story too and the graphics are amazing. Only thing is that it got too easy at the end when I already had all upgrades.
  21. myval2012
    Aug 27, 2023
    7
    Gameplay: It's perfect, definitely a great typing game. Sometimes the words you are supposed to type are hidden behind terrain which is not ideal. 4,5/5

    Visuals: The origami like graphics look great, sometimes you see animals walking in void, but tbh not even 3A studios can figure this out. 2,5/2,5 Story: I'm surprised how well a game can perform on previous fronts and then    Gameplay: It's perfect, definitely a great typing game. Sometimes the words you are supposed to type are hidden behind terrain which is not ideal. 4,5/5

    Visuals: The origami like graphics look great, sometimes you see animals walking in void, but tbh not even 3A studios can figure this out. 2,5/2,5

    Story: I'm surprised how well a game can perform on previous fronts and then completely suck at last one. The story is complete garbage. Half of the time i don't even know what is going on. The story talks about 3 things, how the place looks like (why are you telling me this, i'm looking right at it wtf), how main character feels (starts to be pretty annoying after some time) and how she magically fixes everything by committing mass slaughter of wildlife (wait... what). There is no story, just a collection of random locations with random feelings with random images in gallery once you complete them. 0,5/2,5    … Expand

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. GameCritics
    Apr 23, 2018
    75
    Minor quibbles aside, Epistory is a solid typing adventure. The story mode is around five hours long, and a leaderboard offers plenty of opportunities to test typing skills against the rest of the world. While the plot never builds to the kind of interesting levels that the introduction suggests (in fact, an end-game twist is something of a headscratcher) the gameplay is so well-made that it’s hard to fault the rest.
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  2. Games.cz
    Feb 6, 2017
    70
    Epistory is an imaginative adventure game with sophisticated RPG elements and well-designed typewriting learning cleverly disguised as a game. Too bad the game content is often repeated.But still, Epistory is worth trying not only because it supports Czech language.
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  3. Pelit (Finland)
    Sep 28, 2016
    70
    Combining an ARPG template with typing-based combat is a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, Epistory is a bit too easy and simplistic to really pull it off. I can only hope for a sequel with more challenge, enemy types, skills and the like. [Aug 2016]
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