The keyboard is a popular peripheral, but few games go beyond the WASD control and realize writing and transcription as the main game mechanic. Some classic games needed to write north, and everyone knows classic educational games of writing (shout to Mavis Bacon), but most games currently exploit different control schemes – in addition to some of the latest examples that make writing central mechanics.
IN Letters Department, Department, It will be released on January 30, the player’s character is a tiny town fortunately and starting again in a massive city. To pay bills, they undertake a fleeting task that performs data. As a character, you work for a mysterious agency that sends you to a strange, isolated industrial area to transcribe fragments of mail from a postal service, which the computer could not properly scan.
The player must hit the addresses, names and notes, starting with his own pace. When the narrative intensifies, it can start, but at the beginning it is simply browsing random correspondence between friends and family: smiling faces, holiday photos, charming cards. I started to make my fingers and find the addresses of citizens in the database, but I slowly began to transcribe long and unwavering messages from people in mysterious but terrifying circumstances.
Pictures and text become more surreal, and the hero is slowly decomposing between changes. The full course of the game takes about two hours, during which the agency provides a more randomized mail. Dridge works become much more intriguing thanks to the great terror established by sinister narratives, which reproduce post exchanges, clever audio guidelines and technical effects as the agency computer runs away, and several tardy growth to make ghostly jumping terror.
A completely different last playing game that I liked CryptmasterOld-School Dungeon Crawler. Raw black and white visualizations established the mood early, thanks to the rolled cockroaches, skeletons and the roles of rats. Four adventurers lead to service by the title cryptmaster, sinister and insolent necromancer with a massive plan. To do this, he will need buddies, so he will find four old heroes: warrior Joro, Bard Maz, The Rogourization Son and Wizard Nix. The group must go through crypts, swamps and tombs to the surface – and to succeed, you will have to write like never before.
Similarly CornerIN Circle of FortuneOr WordleA lot Cryptmaster It is based on filling empty places to guess the sentence and mastery of the existing vocabulary to the battle. It starts uncomplicated – if you approach the abyss, enter the jump to traverse. When you find your chest, the cryptmaster gives you some tips and you must guess its identity.
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Being dead is terrible to memory, so our four heroes must again draw all their skills, but they must guess on concepts such as a helmet or shield. When you overcome early enemies, the heroes slowly remember basic skills, such as calming down, stabbing and screaming, adding commands to their repertoires. Now, if you forgive me, I have to miss the six -speed ability to Z O, T and H.
The game is in Stark Black and White, with an elderly -school interface, in which players exploit the keys of navigation by step by step navigation. It takes only a dozen or so hours CryptmasterBut it is such an ingenious game based on mighty central mechanics, which time passes.
Cryptmaster He left in May 2024, but he flew under my radar, because it is such a busy year for games. It is great to see two ingenious games so close together, each of which uses writing as a basic pillar, but in very different ways. After playing scorers, RPGs and cozy craft games, writing games are another way to get my Noggin. Transcription may seem lifeless at first glance, but doing it in a highly atmospheric environment with the metaphorical blade of Damocles hanging on my head adds a certain thrill of emotions. We hope that imaginative programmers still exploit writing as a way to move in strange or terrifying worlds.
