If you can’t wait for the upcoming Elden Ring DLC next week or are still bummed out because the latest Bloodborne announcement leaks were fake again(who would’ve thought?!), it might be time to blow off some steam with FromSoft Word, a Dark Souls-inspired version of Microsoft Word.
In this innocent browser game created by Woe Industries, you start to write in a Word document, like usual. You can even export whatever you’ve just written to a regular .txt document. However, something funny happens whenever you make the smallest of typos.
Yeah, you’re dead. Cool. You can just return to the document later, right? Nah, it’s lost forever. Truly the Dark Souls of typing game. Differently from other games in the genre (if we can even classify “typing game” as such) such as TypeRacer, which only notifies you whenever you make a typo, you’ll have to go through a whole death screen as if you messed up badly. And in fact, you did. No one told you to skip those grammar classes back then. It’s all on you.
At the very least, you’re free to go back and correct any mistakes if you notice them in time. As long as you don’t press space, you’ll stay alive. There’s no time limit either, so you can take as long as you want to keep writing your perfect document. Each correct word equals a point, so do your best to break your own records. And what do you get for scoring well? Surviving and bragging rights, of course!
The sheer impact that Souls games had in the industry is undeniable, and it looks like no games are free from being Soulidified at one point or another. No one would believe me if I told them that we would have a crab Soulslike game a few years ago, and now we have this. Seems like the whole world has fallen in love with these difficult games by now, and the huge anticipation for Shadow of the Erdtree is our biggest proof of that.