The Best Typing Games Available for Download on Steam
The Best Typing Games Available for Download on Steam
How Good Are You at the Keys?
In the world of gaming, everyone has a type. Typing is a skill in both the office space and in PC gaming. Yes, there are a whole lot of games that utilize the keyboard. Although, those games do not specifically focus on typing and instead replace the game controller with keys. Whether you want to help teach little Timmy how to type or want a more mature experience that harkens back to when you were in that position with its own twist, there are all kinds of games available in the wonderful world of Steam just for you (however, it can not be stressed enough that you need to use proper discretion when making selections for yourself or someone of a younger demographic).
As such for your reading pleasure, here is a nice compilation of the best typing games available on Steam right now. Without typing, it would be a whole lot harder to create this article, so it is time to show your appreciation for typing.
A Good Place to Start. Image courtesy on Steam.
For those wanting to teach their children how to type, here is a much-appreciated game available on Steam just for you. The game’s colorful art style and simple shapes can be appealing to young children. Through a series of minigames that are hosted by various colorful animals, the child is taught the placement of keys on a keyboard and by proxy are taught how to type while looking at the screen and not the keyboard itself.
By introducing children to typing this way, it can be further and further ingrained into their skill set through muscle memory. There are plenty of reviews on the steam page praising this particular game with its ability to act as a teaching tool, so why not take a nice stroll to the Steam page and get this software running. Overall, a great teaching option to give to your little ones.
Have what it takes to face the customers? Image courtesy of Steam, where it is available for purchase.
Are you a fan of the classics such as SpongeBob’s Diner Dash or the more recent multiplayer smash hit Overcooked? If you are indeed an adept fan of the frantically paced restaurant experience without the aggressive mistreatment of corporate higher ups, then perhaps you can give The Chef’s Shift a chance.
This game puts a typing twist on the classic formula of running from station to station to prepare dishes to bring to the customers who enter your restaurant. Now instead of simply mashing a single or combination of random buttons to get the grill to turn on, you must now type words in order to complete this step. With the time limits provided by customers making certain orders and your desire to meet their expectations, you will find yourself drawn in by both the charming art style and the fast paced gameplay.
Hacking the system. Image courtesy of Steam.
Do not be fooled by the admittedly goofy name. Git Good is a programming simulator that teaches its players how to use the Git programming language through a series of puzzles. These puzzles increase in difficulty as they go on. Admittedly, this game is not very well known as the other entries, but can be considered a valuable asset in learning a unique coding style. The way that these puzzles steadily increase in difficulty can understandably lead to players considering this as more of a teaching tool than an actual game, even more so than some of the other entries.
This is real. You are in fact seeing this. Image courtesy of Steam, where it is available for download.
Yes. You read that right. No, this is not a joke entry. This is a game from the famous House of The Dead series. You may be familiar seeing the franchise sitting in your local arcade, amusement park, pizza place, or bowling alley. There may even be a chance you yourself picked up the guns made of metal and plastic to take down zombies, just like the many classics of the zombie survival genre.
However in this game, you now traverse the familiar manor with your typing skills. You kill zombies by typing at them. Each character typed makes for a bullet fired at the zombies, meaning zombies that require more typing make for some tense situations, scrambling to press the right keys to take them down efficiently. Obviously this is intended for more mature audiences, so discretion is certainly advised.
A more complicated typing experience. Image courtesy of Steam.
As demonstrated by the previous game, typing games are not restricted to software designed to teach typing to younger audiences. It can also be applied to games that use typing as a way to explore more dynamic narratives.
The Dead Letter Department is a dystopian story where you work as a data transcriber who looks at the titular dead letters, which get lost in the mail with nowhere to go. However, the more data you enter and the more you look into these lost letters, the more you begin to question the society around you and the sick twisted things happening to the writers of these letters.
If the dark art style was not enough to tip you off, horrific themes frequently haunt this psychological dystopia. There are some rather twisted and graphic descriptions of violence at multiple points through the game. There is a lot of deep and intricate storytelling taking place through this text focused adventure.
A fittingly ominous title screen. Image courtesy of Steam.
Facing strange entities threatening to break into your home? Fearing for your family’s safety? The Home Safety Hotline is here to help! In this chilling experience, you play as a HSH operator who listens to people’s calls for help. Use your skills of deduction, the notes given to you by the organization, and your typing skills to figure out which entity is causing issues for the caller and the best advice as to how the entity can be best dealt with. Prevent horrific deaths, confront monsters, and uncover the truth.
Using your typing skills. Image courtesy of Steam.
The classic text based adventure games of yesteryear are far from gone. In this keyboard quest, you play as geologist Nancy Maple who finds herself in the small town of Crimson and finds herself in the middle of a mystery involving the game’s titular diamond. In this Laura Bow inspired game, you can use your typing skills to solve a series of puzzles and eventually get to the bottom of the strange goings on of this town including mysterious murder.
With such a robust diversity in games to play, with even more typing games not even on this list, it can be easy to be overwhelmed by choices. Rest assured, you now have options for how you can test your typing ability as you choose between uncovering conspiracies, running a restaurant, saving lives, or solving strange mysteries. It seems only fitting that several of these games all revolve around uncovering stories, because it is through typing that these stories are made.
