The Textorcist is a bullet hell sort ’em up

Sure you’ve touchtyped via zombie hordes in Typing Of The Dead, however are your fingers nimble sufficient to faucet out exorcisms whereas dodging demonic bullet hell blasts? You’ll get to seek out out in The Textorcist, an upcoming game which may have us each typing and dodging, dispelling demons with our quick fingers and sizzling ft. Mavis Beacon, eat your coronary heart out.

Here’s Ray Bibbia, a personal exorcist in a metropolis overrun with demons. He can banish them along with his magic spells however, as Linda Blair confirmed us, demons don’t take exorcism mendacity down. They’ll combat again, spewing shmup bullet hell-style pictures throughout as we sort Ray’s spells out. Oh, and he’s principally talking Latin spells, so we gained’t even have the assistance of acquainted phrases our fingers already know.

It seems and sounds mighty intimidating however I’d need to get my fingers on it to essentially know. Lots will come right down to how elegant or clumsy it’s to multitask on the keyboard. Today’s announcement mentions we’ll have the choice to “play with the keyboard for a typing experience or with a gamepad for a rhythm experience” so it could possibly’t all be supermurder.

The Textorcist is due in early 2019, in all probability by the tip of March. Morbidware are the builders, and Headup Games are publishing. Its Steam page is already up.