Glyphica: Typing Survival
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 0.8h
- Value
- $12.49/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 8 and Oct 21, at about $6.99 (30% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 47 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($7.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($6.99)
- Last discount ended
- 35 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Any (OpenGL 2.0 Compatible), 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Weaponize your WPM. Glyphica: Typing Survival is a single-player roguelite horde survival game that lets you mow down hordes of enemies in a minimalistic arena using your finger dexterity, your choice of weapons loadout, and sheer determination.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.99, set in January 2026. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 19 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Geometry Arena ($5.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Spellbook Demonslayers ($3.69, scores 31).
10 of the 529 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 867 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 0.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 7, 8.4 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
34% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
42 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is good... and a few additions could make it really shine. It's in Early Access right now so that makes sense. The mechanics are solid: typing, fun powerups, bosses with different mechanics. The game feels goodhearted so I recommend it even as-is. If I were I'd suggest the following minor changes that would make the game much more compelling for me: - Some kind of story; it doesn't have to be deep, or...
Honestly, I haven't had so much fun in a game for a very long time. It's very simple on a surface level, but the roguelike elements spice it up quite good. Cannot tell how good it is among the typing games, as this is the first one of that sort I've played (aside from babytype, but that's DOS era and doesn't count). The only thing that is bothering me a bit is lack of boss variations, currently there are just 5 boss...
It's good, but there's a suspiciously convenient bug that causes it to keep running after you've quit the game. I got it, tried it for a run, wanted to sleep on it before I decided whether or not to refund it, and came back to find out I now had 15 elapsed hours despite only having played the game for 30 minutes. I guess I'm keeping it now. If you're not the type who buys 1000 games whenever there's a sale on that...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Glyphica: Typing Survival scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2400160/glyphica-typing-survivalReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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