Type:Rider
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3D accelerated, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
In this platform game you embody ":" ready to travel through the History of typography, from it's origin to today! Overcome obstacles, escape your enemies and collect asterisks, but beware not to fall down! Will you come out of this journey unscathed?
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 $0.49, set in June 2021. It has been discounted 77 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 83 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Nihilumbra ($7.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) ($14.99, scores 46).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This one is a mixed bag. The game concept is really unique and educational if you're interested in learning about the history of writing. I really enjoyed the visuals-the game looks really nice- and thought it was really cool how each font has its own themed level (ie. Clarendon font takes you to a western themed world) which was really fun. The music was surprisingly good too. On the other hand it was extremely...
I love the concept, but the controls are pretty unresponsive and the movement is very slow. Other problems or slightly annoying things I encountered: - in one level a pipe is supposed to suck you in, to transport you somewhere else - didn't work, dying didn't fix it, had to restart the whole level and lost my progress because of it. - leaving a level briefly to look at new information made the music turn off for...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Type:Rider scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/258890/type-riderReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length 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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