Typoman
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.9h 12.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.56/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 884 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.03 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Slip into the role of an unusual HERO and find the last letter to restore hope in a merciless world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 / GTX 710, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 54 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Seasons after Fall ($1.49, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Pid ($19.99, scores 53).
More about Typoman
Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 368 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 137 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
3.9 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
74% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Let me start off by saying this is a very clever game. It's a very simple concept, a land where letters describe the world, but it works to great affect, especially having all the living creatures made of words. The main character himself is made of the letters H E R O. For a negative, a lot of the cutscenes are very long and unskippable, at least on the first playthrough. And after you die, it takes a little...
2 more reviews
Typoman was surprisingly awesome! It didn't overstay its welcome, the puzzles were clever but not too clever and the platforming was in the most part relatively easy ... although ... if you completed that fire chase scene without dying you're a frickin' legend (I am not a legend, not even close) One unexpected joy ... spelling random words that then changed your character's outfit. I wasn't expecting it, but once...
Cool game mixing finding words with a platformer. One part of the game mid way through it was a bit too hard and had to look up a solution and even with that it was difficult to get past. The rest of the game was decent.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Typoman scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/336240/typomanReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.