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TYPECAST cover art

TYPECAST

Gutter Arcade · 2023-11-07

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 07, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

TYPECAST is a bullet hell where you type to shoot. Get swarmed by enemies, manage the chaos, and climb the leaderboards in this unique arcade experience.

91%
positive of 196 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Play as the witch Yena and protect your village from the evil monsters!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (77 reviews).
  • · Top 51% of 13,601 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.9k–8.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 196 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2025-12-18) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
747420232026Week of 2023-11-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.742023-11-072026-07-092023-11-07 — best price $3.992023-11-14 — best price $4.992023-12-22 — best price $3.742024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-02-05 — best price $3.492024-02-12 — best price $4.992024-02-21 — best price $4.992024-03-14 — best price $3.242024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-05-06 — best price $3.242024-05-13 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $3.242024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $2.492024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $2.492025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $1.242025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-05-05 — best price $1.242025-05-12 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $1.242025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-08-07 — best price $1.242025-08-14 — best price $4.992025-09-15 — best price $1.242025-09-22 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $1.242025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $0.742026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-02-05 — best price $0.992026-02-12 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-06-08 — best price $0.992026-06-15 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
19.5%
earned "Eye of the Storm"
1.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

2DActionArcadeTypingShooterColorfulTop-DownDifficultControllerBullet Hell

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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