Final Sentence is a Battle Royale Typing Game
The title says it all. Final Sentence is a Battle Royale Typing Game where your speed and accuracy can be the difference between life and death. This game caught my attention because of the innovative way it incorporates the act of typing into the mainstream genre of battle royale games. It currently is on sale on steam for only $8.99 as it came out yesterday, so I decided to give it a shot and see how it played. As you would expect, it was pretty fun for the good 1.5 hours of playing it, especially when VOIP is active, meaning, you can talk trash to your opponents while playing.
Final Sentence has three game modes: battle royale, knockout, and duel. You can play these game modes either through the quick match feature which uses match making to put you into these battles or create custom lobbies to play with and against people you know. As you play matches, you gain experience and level your account up by completing introductory quests and gaining XP based on your ranking per match. As of right now, I do not see any benefit to ranking up your account in terms of earning cosmetics or other rewards. There are some steam achievements however that are linked to the game that you can earn.
The battle royale mode has up to 40 players competing against each other in 4-minute rounds that allow up to 3 mistakes per round. If you personally misspell and make a mistake 3 times, the game loads a bullet in the gun chamber, and a Russian roulette is performed to see if you are eliminated from the Battle Royale. If you survived, one of the 6 chambers of the gun turns red, meaning that the bullet remains in the chamber for the next time a Russian roulette is performed. An additional bullet continues to be added to the Russian roulette feature until it strikes the player down, so your odds of survival diminish with each 3 mistakes you make during a round. The first person to complete the typing exercise the fastest without getting killed by the Russian Roulette wins the Battle Royale and causes the remaining participants to be killed by the gunman. I was surprised with how fast and accurate some players were in their typing, but I managed to get first place in 3 or 4 matches out of the 10+ matches that I played.
The knockout mode has up to 8 players and operates similarly to the battle royale mode except the eliminations occur at the end of each round to the participant who finished last in their typing exercise. This continues on for 8 rounds until the final two participants go head-to-head to determine who wins the knockout round. Each round operates as a bit of a fresh start for the remaining participants, so even if you start off poorly, you just have to be better than the last place participant to go on to the next round and try again to survive the gun pointed at your head. I only played one round of this and ended up getting first place.
The duel mode is exactly as you would expect a 1 v 1 battle against 1 opponent to determine who has the best typing skills. While I won my match handily, I personally prefer the larger participant game modes, with the battle royale being my favorite. I can see though that this could be a fun way to run custom matches if you have someone who thinks they can beat you and is talking a lot of trash. It is the ultimate way to settle a typing score with someone.
While I normally do not enjoy battle royale games, I must say that I did enjoy playing Final Sentence. It is a unique and innovative way to level up your typing skills while also adding some fun competition to see who comes out on top as the fastest and most accurate typer. As someone who blogs and enjoys writing, I can see myself playing this game from time to time just to warm up my typing skills before writing or just for fun when I am bored of the other gaming options. Looking forward to seeing what else they add to the game overtime to perhaps add some cosmetics or other rewards for leveling up your account.
Until next time,
Blackboa