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Tyfortress: Tactical Typing is a single-player game about defending humanity’s last fortress from robots by typing. You type phrases to gather resources, build and evolve towers, then type the words shown beneath enemies to destroy them before they reach the end of their lane.

Three phases

Each wave begins with Harvest, followed by three Build and Battle cycles that gradually increase in difficulty. In Harvest, you type phrases to collect resources: you gain 1 resource for every 60 characters typed, and meeting a level’s speed goals multiplies the amount gathered by up to 3.5. Phrases grow longer as you progress through the waves, as does the time allowed to type them.

Build gives you 3 seconds to plan and place towers for the next battle. The field has 20 tower cells, each associated with a letter; each tower or evolution costs 1 resource and lasts 60 seconds or less. Towers can still be built and evolved during Battle, and evolving one makes it shoot and rotate faster while reducing its lifetime by 10 seconds. The description also notes that evolving a tower recovers its lifetime.

In Battle, you type the words beneath enemies to destroy them and keep them from reaching the end of their lane. Each wave’s three Build and Battle cycles become progressively harder. Survive all 5 waves to save the fortress; at the end of each wave, spare lives and resources add to your bonus score.

Words and difficulty

The game includes almost 5,500 words, grouped by everyday use, with uncommon words assigned to some enemies to make them harder. You can disable uncommon words or import your own vocabulary, provided it contains English words without special characters. There are almost 550 phrases, including passages from works such as The Little Prince, Sherlock Holmes, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula and Peter Pan, as well as phrases associated with Jules Verne, Jane Austen, Socrates, Aristotle and Baruch Spinoza.

Choose from four difficulty levels: Easy for speeds below 40 words per minute, Medium below 60, Hard below 80, and Insane above 80. Never Dies Mode lets you keep playing after losing; your score stops increasing, but you can continue training.

Scores and achievements

A leaderboard lets you compete for the high score, and the game has 95 achievements. It also supports Steam Cloud.