Games like The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
If The Typing of The Dead: Overkill is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tybot Invasion: The Typing Runner, Die to Survive and Dead Containment — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Originally released in 2013 by Modern Dream and published by SEGA, The Typing of The Dead: Overkill is a typing-based rail shooter priced at $4.99 USD. Players eliminate zombies by accurately typing words on screen, with the difficulty tier system scaling up to challenge even proficient typists. The mechanics include mouse-mode switching and powerup collection alongside the core typing combat. Reviewers highlight the absurd B-movie boss designs and crude humor as standout elements, describing the overall experience as both challenging and comedic. Players note that the typing mechanics effectively replace traditional shooting, with some crediting the game with improving their typing skills. The setting places players in a mutant outbreak scenario in Bayou county. Steam Deck users can play the title, which holds an 87% positive rating from over 2,280 Steam reviews.
About The Typing of The Dead: Overkill: Typing of the dead: Overkill fuses the horror and comedy of the legendary House of the Dead series with unique typing mechanics in order to deliver a truly original gaming experience! This gruesome shooter puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou county.
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Tybot Invasion: The Typing Runner
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Top pick for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Type words quickly to destroy robots, move among lanes, and destroy all the enemy's waves on this invasion that mixes Typing & Run! The future of Robworld is in your hands, can you destroy all robots fast enough? Type for your life. Type for the future.
Die to Survive
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Second-strongest match for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Gory rail shooter filled with action, explosions, boss battles, weapon upgrades, demons and zombies ... lot´s of zombies.
ActionSteam ↗Dead Containment
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Third-strongest match for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Dead Containment is an on-rails shooter inspired by classic arcade games. Players fend off the undead as they race through a city under siege, blasting away the horrors that roam the streets using a variety of weapons. Playable solo or online co-op.
Word Warrior: Zombie Typocalypse
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Ranked #4 for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Defeat zombies with creativity! "Word Warrior: Zombie Typocalypse" is a wacky word-based rail shooter. Type anything you can think of to fight off the zombies and top the global leaderboard. Replay for bigger rewards but face deadlier zombies!
ZOMBIE MATHters
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Ranked #5 for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Calculate and defeat the zombies! "ZOMBIE MATHTERS" Add/subtract/multiply, You can defeat zombies!
Typomancer in the Feather's Way
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Ranked #6 for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Run, jump and type words to conjure spells and help your typing wizard to disinfect the platforming TyWorld from the slime monsters! Be prepared to type a lot, because it will allow you to reload your feather and control the world around you.
Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces
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Ranked #7 for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces – Somewhere between heaven and earth stands the mystic midway. Its live action ‘Master of Cemeteries’ the humorously insulting Dr Dearth, welcomes you to his shooting gallery, Rest in Pieces! Fire away at ghosts, ghouls, and all things that go bump in the night.
Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever
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Shares a funny mood with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Ranked #8 for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
'Game of the Year' finalist at the 2021 VR Awards and TIGA Awards, ‘Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever’ combines arcade lightgun games with racing mechanics. Headshot combos slow the clock, meaning the most precise shooter is the fastest - challenge the leaderboards with skill, speed, and accuracy.
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Epistory - Typing Chronicles
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Reviewers of The Typing of The Dead: Overkill cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
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Maximize your productivity with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing® 2020! The most comprehensive typing instruction system now includes learning tools and an updated user interface to guarantee typing improvements in just 2 weeks!
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2: Remake
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Shares a dark mood with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Reviewers of The Typing of The Dead: Overkill cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2: Remake is a remake of the second entry in the well-known and popular rail-shooter series. Take on the lone role of a secret agent as James or Gary, or team up in co-op mode to neutralize the dangerous undead monsters standing in your way.
The Dead House
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Reviewers of The Typing of The Dead: Overkill cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Play as an ambitious YouTuber known for exploring paranormal and creepypasta stories. Your latest video takes you to a hauntingly beautiful, abandoned mansion, rumored to hide dark secrets.
Blood Typers
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Shares a dark mood with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Reviewers of The Typing of The Dead: Overkill cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
TYPE TO KILL in this survival horror adventure. Alone or with friends, explore a sprawling cursed film studio as its horror movies bleed into reality. Choose from a roster of characters then plan your escape from this bloody homage to old school horror. But remember... death is just a typo away.
Cryptmaster
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Shares typing combat with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
Reviewers of The Typing of The Dead: Overkill cross-mention this title as a similar play.
SAY ANYTHING in this bizarre dungeon adventure where words control everything. Fill in the blanks with text or voice to uncover lost abilities, embark on strange quests, and solve mindbending riddles. Can you conquer the crypt and uncover the mystery at the heart of CRYPTMASTER?
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Priced ~80% under The Typing of The Dead: Overkill on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Typing of The Dead: Overkill.
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Frequently asked about The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
- Does The Typing of The Dead: Overkill run on Steam Deck?
- The Typing of The Dead: Overkill is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Typing of The Dead: Overkill cost?
- The Typing of The Dead: Overkill is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Typing of The Dead: Overkill have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Typing of The Dead: Overkill supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to The Typing of The Dead: Overkill?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Typing of The Dead: Overkill are Tybot Invasion: The Typing Runner, Die to Survive, Dead Containment.
- Who developed The Typing of The Dead: Overkill?
- The Typing of The Dead: Overkill was developed by Modern Dream and published by SEGA.
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