Note that this does not apply to games where you just type in names or objects, like those under Hello, [Insert Name Here], Adventure Games with a Text Parser, and Scribblenauts. This is when the typing part is the main gameplay mechanic and requires speed and/or accuracy from the player for optimal performance.
Games dedicated to typing:
- All The Right Type is a series of educational typing games. It is a mix of lessons and themed minigames, such as acting as an air traffic controller or keeping a spaceship from crashing.
- Backspace Bouken has enemy encounters that require typing their given lines. However, the supply of spaces is finite, and they need to be retrieved from signs scattered throughout the dungeon.
- Clockwords uses words you type in to deal damage to bugs.
- David Lynch Teaches Typing: A parody game where an on-screen David Lynch ostensibly teaches you how to type, with the familiar hands over the keyboard graphic, but things get surreal.
- Epistory Typing Chronicles: As the girl riding a nine-tailed fox traverses the world, she encounters various entities. They have words on them, and typing those words causes the girl to target them (killing them in the case of hostile creatures).
- There's a typing game for Fist of the North Star that adapts the events of the third and fourth seasons from the perspectives of Kenshiro and Raoh- while also continuing to feature the gore the series is known for.
- Fuck Typing has the player type in a flaming discourse like "You're a shitty granny smoker!" before the computer does.
- Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing parodies the genre, purporting itself as an educational title despite not teaching the player anything. It was made for the Something Awful GameDev Competition VIII, where the theme was "subversive edutainment", and received a follow-up, Icarus Proudbottom's World of Typing Weekly, which combines typing with a murder mystery game.
- JumpStart: Among the various games in the franchise is Jump Start Typing where Botley and Polly from JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain teach players typing skills.
- Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure focuses on typing in item or Pokemon names by using the wireless keyboard that comes with the game or the DS's touch screen.
- Mario Teaches Typing, as indicated by the title, has you type in letters to walk or swim through the level.
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is a game that teaches typing to beginners and sets up lessons based on player performance.
- Nessy Fingers is an Edutainment Game that teaches typing using the Framing Device of showing a lovable Loch Ness Monster how to do it.
- Nitro Type is a Racing Game that doubles as a typing game; in each race, players have to type a passage of text. The players' position in the race is determined by their accuracy and speed.
- SpongeBob SquarePants Typing, a typing game for PC in which SpongeBob recruits the player to help him compete in Mr. Krabs' Typing Tournament. Each lesson being one round of the tournament against another Bikini Bottom resident from Patrick being the first opponent to Sandy being the last.
- The Textorcist The Story Of Ray Bibbia combines this with Bullet Hell, having you type in letters to perform exorcisms whilst dodging projectiles.
- Type & Hope!!: The main character, Theodore, wants to learn magic. The player can complete lessons with the teachers by doing typing exercises.
- Typer Shark: The player character is a scuba diver who's threatened by sharks and piranhas. The goal is to correctly type the word or text string shown on each creature's body to kill it.
- Type To Learn, the third game based around Father Time driving a Time Machine fueled on typing.
- Typing E Keikaku: A Neon Genesis Evangelion typing game for the SEGA Dreamcast which uses the Dreamcast keyboard to teach typing to kids. Obviously, unlike the anime, there is no extreme violence or psychological horror at all in this game.
- Typing Instructor is a game that teaches players how to type in various travel-themed minigames.
- The House of the Dead series has typing-centric remakes of the second and third entries in the franchise as well as The House of the Dead: OVERKILL, released as "The Typing of the Dead", "The Typing of the Dead 2" and "The Typing of the Dead: OVERKILL". These replace the original games' light gun mechanics with a perfectly shot bullet whenever a displayed word or phrase is correctly typed. "OVERKILL" askews typical typing game mechanics for the Final Boss, asking the player to "type anything, as long as you type like a motherfucker." Extra damage is awarded if the words being typed are associated with a listed character, but it's easy enough to win by mashing.
- The web game Z Type is a shoot 'em up in which you fire at enemies by typing the words next to them. Large enemies have longer words.
Typing minigames:
- Anti-Idle: The Game has a Typing tab where you can earn Blue Coins depending on performance.
- Club Penguin: Paint By Letters is a game that can be found on the bookshelf in the book room. There are three books you can pick and the player has to type all the words shown in them. There are animated pictures and one can change how the story goes when prompted by two or three blue words. You sometimes get choices between one of words on every page, and there are even hidden coins that can be found by interacting with the objects on the page.
- The Communitree: The third tab in the Despacit layer initially involves the Giftcode Generator, where you have to type in giftcodes given by the game into a bar and press Enter. Some of them are things related to the game like "mod" and "despacit" or other topics like "easter" and "mother" (with some numbers as well), but many others are gibberish. You get a number of gift points based on how many characters were in the word that you spelled.
- Deltarune Titans: Spamton Sigma's Purple Soul attack has him use a large notebook that falls on you. To avoid it, you have to type in words that contain letters that are shown on it (for example, if it shows "gy", you can respond with "laggy") until it ends.
- Friday Night Funkin' Lullaby: The song "Monochrome" features a mechanic where you are required to type out words that the Unown spell out.
- Frog Fractions will sometimes replace the standard rounds with Frog Fractions Teaches Typing as part of its Gameplay Roulette and parody of edutainment games.
- The Incremental Dev Tree: The Incremental^2 layer has you type in words given by the game into a bar to increase IQ.
- Trivia Murder Party 2 from the The Jackbox Party Pack 2 has the Dictation minigame, where each player has to type in what [REDACTED] says and gain points based on words which they spelled correctly.
- Neopets: The Flash minigame Typing Terror, in which the player types in progressively more complicated words under a time limit to blow up robots.
- The Oregon Trail: The first version of the game includes a hunting minigame where the player has to quickly type "bang", "wham", or "pow", with misspelled words resulting in a failed hunt.
- The Tree of Life has a Spelling minigame in the letters layer. You can type in words that are counted if you do so properly, but it doesn't do anything and is just there to occupy you until something in the game happens.
- Ultra Custom Night: Turning on Meringue puts the entirety of "A Farewell to FNaF World
" (which is 1000+ characters long) on the Kitchen camera and you have the entire in-game night (4:30 unless the timer has been extended) to type it in, otherwise you die.
- Webkinz has Lunch Letters, which is a minigame where the player has to press the corresponding letters on the keyboard. The easy difficulty includes 1 to 3-letter words, and increased difficulties includes longer words. Playing this game awards the player with Kinzcash based on how well they do.
In-Universe examples:
- Played for Horror in the Creepypasta Mr Mix. The titular game is an edutainment-style typing game where the player must help the character Mr. Mix make food by typing the names of the ingredients. The game had crude visuals and no music on most of the levels. However, the game had a previously inaccessible sixth level that could only be accessed by hacking. The level infected the player's computer with images of deformed faces that would cause irreparable damage to the hard drive if they attempted to delete them. The group of players that discovered this level all went missing afterwards due to being so heavily traumatized by what they saw.
