Epistory: Typing Chronicles
Epistory is an atmospheric adventure typing game that tells the story of a writer lacking inspiration who asks her muse to help write her latest book. In Epistory you play the muse, a fictional character in a…
Epistory: Typing Chronicles is an adventure developed by Fishing Cactus, released 30 March 2016 on Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia, Linux and Mac. It currently starts at $2.99 at IndieGala. The main story takes about 7.3 hrs to finish.
What Epistory: Typing Chronicles is
Epistory: Typing Chronicles is an adventure game developed by Fishing Cactus and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Epistory – Typing Chronicles is a 2016 action-adventure, typing video game developed by Fishing Cactus. The game was released on Steam Early Access in September 2015 and was officially released on March 30, 2016, for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS, and on February 2, 2021 for Stadia. In the game, a young girl rides a fox with three tails. The game's story follows a writer's writing process, which unfolds like paper on-screen and is narrated from the perspective of the writer's internal thoughts. The game later received a spiritual sequel, Nanotale – Typing Chronicles.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, educational and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 55 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Epistory: Typing Chronicles holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.3 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.41 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5 2400 -OR- AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, 4 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD4850 -OR- GeForce GTX 295 (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at IndieGala, 80% below its usual price. Across the 3 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $4.49 — a spread of $1.50 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Epistory: Typing Chronicles launched on 30 March 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank and Quantum Break. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank, Quantum Break.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Epistory: Typing Chronicles yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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