Great typing mechanics, overall liked the game very much! Despite art being from asset store, everything looks very consistent throughout the game. 

A bit buggy though: my first run was ended when I mistakenly adjusted camera angle and was unable to see the word to type. But that's to be expected, general quality for the gamejam game is very good.

As someone who has logged quite a large number of hours into the Textorcist and even frequently replays its boss rush, I feel uniquely qualified to critique this game. I enjoyed it, but there were more than a few bugs and design choices that became quite frustrating to me over time. I'll start with the bugs.

• Camera angle locks in place once combat begins and sometimes it will lock it in such a way that I can't see what I need to type. This killed my third run when I was on the second floor and made me throw in the towel.
• I ended up fighting an enemy that was on the other side of a wall and once again I could not see what to type. This killed my first run.
• If you enter the second floor without a stockpile of potions you're kind of out of luck.
• Same word showed up four times once, perhaps make random less random.

Design choices

• It would be beneficial to add in a way to preemptively strike monsters, as it is the monsters seem to attack almost instantly which I feel is missing a chance to reward fast typing.
• When you make a mistake you have to start a word over from scratch. Personally I feel that this is too punishing as it is often a mad dash to type things and sometimes mistakes are made. I generally prefer the method of just removing one letter per mistake rather than the whole word.
• I think there should be more variety in word length. All the wolves have long words, all the snakes have shorter words. Throwing in different word lengths might make the enemies feel more interesting.
• Movement: I don't like the numpad in this case especially since I have to transition to typing. The best movement I've seen for a typing game was in the Textorcist where you can move around by holding shift and using WASD. Seeing as that game is a bullet hell the quick transition definitely shines but it would equally shine here.
• In games like these I think that combo mechanics add a whole lot to the experience, anything that rewards skilled typists will make the game feel much more fun.

Well, those are my thoughts on what can be improved. Like I said, I enjoyed it, I love typing games and a typing dungeon crawler is a super fun idea. Anyway, happy typing!

î like the typing mechanic! I wish you used it everywhere because it felt a bit awkward to have to remove my hands from the keyboard in order to use my mouse to level up. good job tho!

Hey! Super cool entry! After my first death on the second floor and realizing that I could not proceed further, since I had no potions left and was to weak for the wolves. I started my second run using dying as a game mechanic. I would clear floor one but leave one enemy alive, thereby level up and buy a lot of potions. Then i would let the last enemy kill me and start over until i could not get more EXP to level up on this floor (I never reached the 3000EXP but i was close). Prepared like that I entered the 2nd floor with 40HP, 20 Mana, 18 mana pots and 2 health pots. This time I made it straight throzgh this level but sadly I did not reach the 3000 EXP since the second floor has a lower combined enemy/exp sum. So I bought more potions and went on to the 3rd floor where i defeated the boss ^^. It took be a hand full of deaths on the first floor to get to 2500 EXP and sum up 4 (or 5?) upgrades so I dealt 13 damage per hit and had 40HP in the end.

Overall a fun experience and lovely to look at!

What did I love:

• The art style, the gameplay (typing like in textorcist ^^), 
• The bits of narration made me feel like I'm here on a purpose
• The variety of enemies was refreshing (my favorites are snakes and bats)
• The end boss (cool to have an end boss)
• Shopping and leveling up!! (Why do I keep slaying enemies? For Gold!! And EXP!! Muaharhar!!) It gives the fights another purpose, I love that
• The ambience/music and the minimap

What can be improved?

• Keeping EXP when going deeper down, so I could have gotten a level more ^^
• Fixing the potion shop on floor 3 (the last shop is not working - I wouldn't have needed it but suggesting the player, there is a shop and then it is not was a bit sad. Hovewer, I imagined this shop was long lost and dead on purpose ^^- Maybe you could use a model of a destroyed shop here and a short message. That would be a cool narrative level element.)
• Some end after defeating the boss (at least a black page saying THX and showing your name :) )
• Making the move buttons work ^^ (It was odd to have clickable move buttons that didn't do anything ^^)

Overall: A super cool entry and I played for about an hour. So really good work here. One or two things to polish after the jam, but in the current state a really fun experience!

my concise, vivid comments:

this was fun.

i was surprised that I didn't have to type "lever" or "pull" or "switch" or something in order to flip the lever.

Nice visuals, good controls, minimap, merchant, levelups, spells, verticality and even numpad controls! What's not to love about this game :) I've always liked typing games and the mechanic works really well for dungeon crawlers. Good job! :)

I don't know why, but I can't move at all in the game, neither by clicking with the mouse on the movement keys nor by pressing on the num block keys or arrow keys on my keyboard.

The typing combat is super fun, but man once I got to wolves they were just kicking my ass, and I seemed to run into a bug where the 2nd wolf on the 2nd floor killed me after they died (Like I took delayed damage or something, it happened a few times)

Music is awesome, I like that there is a different tile set between levels. It's all very polished for a jam game, and fun to play.

I'm probably going to come back and play more of this and try get a build that will get past level 2.

Nice Game!

Spelling combined with dungeons is a nice twist of the theme. Nice graphics for UI as well as environment. Overall very nice graphics in the game, and the tween when moving is fluent. Nice eerie sound environment. Minimap was nice but not very useful when only showing 1-2 rooms away.

Since dying on second floor resets second floor I were not able to get further since I couldn't replenish potions and my typing is to slow. Had to restart game and gather lots of potions from first level by dying after buying.

I had trouble playing the game to begin with but I kept trying until I got the hang of it. It went from being a not so fun experience to an actually fun game to play. I Enjoyed playing it. Took me 1h 15min to reach what I think might be the end.

Bugs and general thoughts

Somethings I noticed while playing the game that might help you in your further development of the game. You prob know most of them already.

Having to use mouse to loot and right hand on numpads to move makes it awkward to use typing for attacks.

Close to the first level shop there is a door that you can pass through without opening.

If looking down when encounter the option to look up again with num5 doesn't work ending up not seeing the text to type.

While in shop its possible to rotate  and do movement which is kinda executed when shop is closed.

At my third try movement stopped working in the first hallway and my inputs were visible in a input box in the lower right corner. While this were opened I couldn't move. I guess its something that's for testing purposes?

XP and gold seems to reset when moving to next level as well as dying.

Some torches on level 2 was floating in the air.

The store at lev 3 is doesn't register mouse, had to turn while facing it to open the shop window.

Lava monsters animations look same when alive and dead which is a bit confusing.
I stopped playing after killing the Red Dragon. Not sure if there was more content.

Gamefiles size seems a bit large but I guess that's mostly graphics.

Thanks for making this game!

The game works pretty well, I like the choice of upgrade at level up especially.