The Typing of The Dead: Overkill

Played with a Blamcon light gun: 8/10 This... is not the game you think it is. If you click on "House of the Dead Overkill" in the menu, you get a treat. A full on high quality light gun game. This game is excellent, well done, and fully complete. I don't know why they hid it in a typing tutor program.

That game is so fun and addictive to play !

It's full of humor and it has a great replay value.

But to avoid stressing yourself, ignore the Typing of The Dead: Overkill mode.

It's a real killjoy and the House of The Dead (and its Director's cut) mode is MUCH better to play !

Fun

If you need help learning how to type under pressure, than this is the game for you. Bonus stress points if you cover your keyboard and hands with a cloth so you are completely forced to touch type.

i never did my computer class to learn to type but this game is great place to start

i like typing motherfucker to kill the final boss 10/10 increased my WPM by at least 100

This game is hilarious and so well put together that it all makes sense even in most bizarre settings.
Love the humor and the sound of my keyboard trembling from all the unusual words I'm learning.

This game should be thought in school to prevent illiteracy.

First things first: Being originally a "mature" rail shooter for the Nintendo Wii, this game is stupid. Gleefully stupid. Tarantino as seen through the eyes of Internet 14 year-olds circa whatever the hell year Snakes on a Plane happened stupid. Gratuitous violence, unlikable characters, racial stereotypes, girls with big jugs and small brains. But it's okay, we're just being ironic.

There is a level set in a strip club. Obviously.

I would find this unbearable in a shooter, but as a typing game it's a perfect marriage of reflex, cognition, and dexterity (yes I know that's a 3-way marriage, unbunch thy panties it is but a metaphor). You finish each level feeling drained, but then you're rewarded with a cutscene that shuts down the rational mind like a wet fart at a eulogy. So you get a little rest before the carnage begins again.

Typing of the Dead: Overkill is nothing less than a debasement of the very concept of language, and I think we can all agree that's basically a healthy thing.

This game fucking sucks and will make you wanna blow your brains out. Play anything else.

If you enjoy typing random words just for fun, this is the game for you. The story is absolutely ridiculous in a fun way.

Best and one of a kind Rail Shooter! 'Nuff said!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This motherfucking game is motherfucking fun! Play it, motherfucker!

This game is HORRENDOUS. Audio issues all over the place, dialogue so shitty its unbelievable. Best of all, you have to beat the entire game just to unlock ACTUAL TYPING mode where spaces and punctuation matter. What a complete joke waste of time. I'm sad I even gave this game 2 hours so I can't refund it.
I miss the original Typing of the Dead.

click clack. 10/10

I have a motor disability, and I am using this game to help me practice move my fingers. I’ve tried a lot of different exercises, and websites and games and stuff, and this is by far the most fun I’ve had. I really like doing the endless wave mini game and seeing how far I can get.

The only downside is that the load times kind of suck and there’s not a lot of customization options in the settings menu.

What a gem, I wish it was longer.

absolute banger

Loud, sassy and proud. If you have a hankering for the japanese lightgun game but want to practice your typing and find Mavis Beacon too vanilla? This is your game. They took the sexual innuendo meter and turned it up to 11.

I love this game!!! It is super fun. I think I purchased this as part of a humble bundle offer but I can't remember with all the extreme discounts and great free games you can get these days. Either way, the cheesy grind-house presentation and the nods to previous House of the Dead games make this a treat to play. I am a fan of everything this game offers. The only thing I feel I would have put a little more something into are the enemies who take you through a very obvious cut and paste sequence as you impale them with of a handful of pole shaped weapons you get to use--only once. With that in mind, I do play this game quite a bit lately, mostly after buying a mechanical keyboard (f99 iykyk).
Anyway, thumbs up on The Typing of the Dead Overkill!!

Easily the most fun Ive ever had when it comes to upping my typing skills. The cutscenes are also super hilarious as well.

More fun than it has any right to be, and the cheese factor is so over the top it's wonderful. Actually requires some decent typing skills for the harder difficulties. I wish there were more games of this style being made.

Classic The House of the Dead!

If you need to improve on your typing muscle memory it's a great game to play, the explicit talk can abit too much but otherwise i love the game.

Fast typers may finally put their skill to good use :)
And the game story has a very cool vibe.

great game.
works great on Steamdeck.
i use bluetooth keyboard and ps4 controller.
need gamepad for certain parts of game.
didn't play house of the dead, i think you can probably hook up a lightgun? not sure. or just use mouse?

Shockingly good, shockingly funny, but tbf I'm pretty much a five-year-old. Buy it anyway. On sale if you must.

A grindhouse humour pulled-off real good and zombie shooting that is fun whether you're typing or clicking 🤠

This game is ridiculous in the best way possible. A rail shooter where the only weapon is a keyboard and the only way to survive is by typing out increasingly absurd phrases at undead freaks shambling toward your face. The absurdity is the point. It takes the over-the-top action of House of the Dead and replaces the mindless trigger finger with frantic, high-stakes wordplay.

It starts simple. Basic words, short phrases. Then it escalates. Sentences get longer, words get weirder, and before long, you’re hammering out entire paragraphs in a panic while some grotesque abomination closes in. The difficulty curve isn’t just about reaction time—it’s about staying calm while your fingers try to keep up with the madness on screen.

The voice acting is gloriously terrible. The story is nonsense. The graphics are pure arcade relic. None of that matters. The real joy comes from the sheer chaos of speed-typing your way through waves of zombies and somehow surviving. It’s a dumb idea executed perfectly.

I am a big fan of the House Of The Dead games. I've played and beaten all the arcade cabinets - 1, 2, 3, 4, and Scarlet Dawn. Yeas ago, I played a lot of the original version of this game (Overkill) on the Wii. I also played a lot of 2&3 Return on the Wii, but that's irrelevant to this review. Most people could probably guess this, but I can say without a doubt that the PC port of Overkill is the far superior version. (I never played the PS3 version, so I can't comment on that.) Unlike the typing of the dead game that was on the Dreamcast (based off of House Of The Dead 2), this game does not teach you how to type - you just type the words/phrases/sentences that appear by the mutants in order to defeat them. It should be known that this game includes the regular story mode and director's cut that can be played entirely with your mouse. So if you want a break from typing but still want to blast some mutants, there's a mode to use the mouse! (For some reason, the game does not seem to advertise this.) You can even use various weapons just like the Wii version. The PC port is MUCH more generous with giving you money, so you'll be able to unlock and fully upgrade everything in a little over one play-through of both the story mode and director's cut. The story and director's cut are nearly identical. The only difference being the director's cut makes the levels a little longer by taking you through alternate paths. Although most people will probably play for only a few hours and stop, I find this game to be a fun challenge and the story, although silly, is very quotable and has a charm to it that I enjoy. It is very different from all the other HOTD games in terms of tone and especially language. Despite this, it is one of my favorite video games.
Some day, I will be able to put "Cleared "The Typing Of The Dead: Overkill" on hard mode" on my resume as a skill.

>game allows you to import custom dictionaries
>install the japanese weeb pack for shits and giggles
>base game usually makes hostage saves one word or so (custom dictionaries ignore this)
>try to save civilians while typing "Ore wa ochinchin ga daisuki nandayo?"

i rate it 10 motherfuckers out of 10

Love it. Please make more.

This game surprised me! A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
I wanted to try this game for the typing. I'm not a fast typer so I struggled with the typing part of the game. That game mode is too hard for me. That struggle is on me not the game but I found out it has the option to play the House Of The Dead Overkill gun mode as well!

You have the option to play a typing mode or a gun mode. 2 different ways to play a full game is great!

I love the humour and characters.

The funny songs and voice clips you hear at the main menu reminds me of the funny ads and radio talk stations in the classic GTA games.

I mean yeah. nothing wrong here.

This is just a straightforward typing game, but I really enjoyed it. Experienced a few crashes, but going into my Windows resolution settings and changing the graphics to "Power Saving" seems to have fixed that. Still, the game is a bit rough around the edges, game audio will drop out during dialogue and the menus can be very slow to load, but it's still a lot of fun.

The game is full of dumb humor that I really enjoyed. It also includes the original House of the Dead: Overkill, and you can play that with controller, mouse, or lights guns, which is a nice bonus! This is the Extended Cut of the game, similar to the PS3 port. It includes some levels and content that weren't included in the original Wii version. All in all, it's a pretty good package, but in my opinion, unless you really love the game, there is very little replay value (although I think that is pretty standard for on rails shooters like this).

Dandy Highwayman

This is an interesting game which I liked but is also hard to outright recommend. I bought it on sale for I believe 10 bucks so I wasn't into it for too much. If I spent more, I might have been a little disappointed. I beat the main campaign in 3 hours.

On its surface, it is a really basic typing game. It never gets more complicated other than making 3 word sentences. I was also a bit disappointed in the final boss. However, it is fairly bloody in a fun way. This kind of humor will either drive you nuts or you will love it, there will probably be no in between.

in the end, if it's on sale and you like typing games, go for it, I'm sure there are a lot worse. But don't be expecting anything earth shattering.

This is one of my all-time favorites. It's the quintessential fun computer game. I've been playing this game since 2014 in small bursts, but I always come back to it. The humor is over-the-top, the constant grindhouse film references are top notch, and the goofy interplay between the text prompts and the "story" are often chuckle-worthy. You'll probably need to run it in compatibility mode these days, but this game is just plain FUN. Definitely recommend it if you enjoy some gore and laughter or if you need to improve your typing speed.

Best educational game I've ever played.

na

Unfortunately this game does not meet the high narrative standards that typing games and on-rails shooters are known for

In 2009, I was a child at GameStop with my parents. They grabbed a copy of House of the Dead: Overkill for the Wii. The nerd at the cash register kept darting his eyes back and forth between me and my captors as he continuously mentioned that this video game contained "a lot of f-bombs". Trying to dissuade them from buying it. He wasn't successful.

Now look at me, I'm playing a version of that same game in 2025 except I'm typing the "f-bombs". I'm pressing combinations of keys on my keyboard to spell out "b-o-o-b-i-e-s" and "sexy sour shrimp" to shoot zombies in the head, all the while I'm smoking a joint, a cigarette, and a cigar at the same time. The amount of burn holes in my leather trench coat grows, but so does my style rank in Devil May Cry (Dante was based on me).

Sometimes I wonder if I would've turned out as badass as I did, if the cashier was successful that fateful day in blocking an 8 year old from experiencing the f-word in a video game for the Wii. Then I wonder why I'm even wondering, because I'm too cool for that now and I literally don't care.

Well you might, like me have played and loved Typing of the Dead back in the day - a goofy typing based House of the Dead game for PC which replaced the Dreamcast backpacks (and guns) of the original arcade conversion with ridiculous little keyboards on the characters as they typed those House of the Dead zombies to...death. Well this is that, but

INTERMISSION

Adult. I mean really adult. purposefully adult in every way. Not just more gory (it sure is) Not just more sexualised (it SURE is) and not just more gross (it really REALLY is!) but adult like phrases such as "Muthafuck...what does a brotha have to do to PACIFY a bitch" and "when you two have finished admiring each other's dicks can I remind you that we have a mass murderer and psychopath to find?"

Yes this is Typing of the Dead in fully NSFW mode, and it is excellent. Do not think those quotes to be intended racism or misogynistic - it is a 90s arcade gun game gloriously wrapped up in and contrived to be 90's blaxploitation, pulp-fiction and fully satirical culture and, boy, does it deliver. There are whores, there are genetic freaks, there is death of innocents but there are also strong female leads, black leads, mysterious g-men leads and they all wanna do one thing - kill the zombies, with words! (or not...) while sounding really corny.

There is a huge amount of game here - you need to type words quickly to shoot ever more articulate zombos (words are randomly generated but get progressively harder and longer the further you get) over several levels within which you earn money for better guns, efficiency and skills. It is an awesome experience, the game doesn't want you to fail so re-buys are generous, and there are fripperies to collect and leaderboards to add more replayability.

And then, unbelievably, they give you the whole thing to play but as the shooty-on-rails game it originally was before this abomination version - use mouse or pad to just shoot those mothafuckas in the head for a completely different but also rewarding experience. Add in bonus modes and levels too and you have great value.

So, I should be clear - this is either a game that makes you learn how to touch or fast-type really quickly or point a mouse / pad quickly and press a button while zombies explode, with an exploitatively delivered and very inappropriate episodic grindhouse structure and plot from a time long gone.

If not easily offended, it is very hard not to love, and there is pretty much nothing like it.

found the G spot

great for entertainingly scaring the kids into typing using a occasional interest or gaming addiction to feed their minds with a skill along with improving vocabulary as well...... Or yourself for those of us yet to have any and just appreciate learning in a less than rudimentary standard way that some of us aren't wired for and defeats the purpose.

You type stuff to kill zombies. What more do you need?

Fantastic game and soundtrack definitely stays true to the original

The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is a fun, chaotic and hilarious twist on the classic rail-shooter formula, replacing gunplay with fast-paced typing challenges. Set in a campy, grindhouse-style world filled with zombies and crude humor, the game tasks players with typing words and phrases to defeat undead hordes.

The game’s standout feature is its unique gameplay mechanic, which makes typing both thrilling and absurdly fun. The grindhouse aesthetic and over-the-top humor add to its charm, offering a self-aware, deliberately cheesy experience. With a variety of modes, including multiplayer and word challenges, there’s plenty to keep players entertained.

On the downside, the humor and dialogue, while intentionally crass, might not appeal to everyone. Some sections of the game feel repetitive, especially as the typing challenges can become predictable over time. Additionally, the visuals, while intentionally retro, may seem dated or lack polish in places.

The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is a fun and unique spin on zombie shooters, perfect for players looking for something offbeat and entertaining.

Great for fans of typing games and over-the-top humor. 7.5/10.

fun game that increases typing skills

uh oh

i never learned home row