OUT OF SORTS
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Action. Free.
OUT OF SORTS is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
A typing roguelite set in a letterpress print shop. Words crawl down the galley towards your composing stick. Type one and you set it, and the trouble it was carrying goes away. But you do not have a keyboard. You have a TYPE CASE. 12 E. 9 T. 3 U. One Q. One Z. Every letter you type is a piece of metal lifted out of that drawer, and it does not come back until you break the forme up. So the skill is not speed.
It is deciding what to spend. Set three long words full of E and the short easy ones in front of you turn grey, because the shop cannot set them any more. Out of sorts is a printer's phrase four hundred years older than the mood it now describes. It means the compositor has run out of a letter and cannot set the line. In this game it is how you lose.
What makes it different In a typing game the scarce things are usually TIME and ACCURACY. Here the alphabet is the inventory, so the scarce thing is the letter E. Your vocabulary does not shrink randomly. It shrinks in a shape you chose. The case is the board. A word you cannot afford cannot be typed at all, and the slip tells you exactly which sorts you are short of.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.