The Typing of The Dead: Overkill

The Typing of The Dead: Overkill

Released Oct 2013

Typing of the dead: Overkill fuses the horror and comedy of the legendary House of the Dead series with unique typing mechanics in order to deliver a truly original gaming experience! This gruesome shooter puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou county.

87% positive · 4,108 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

The Typing of the Dead: Overkill launched on October 29, 2013 and received a steady stream of DLC and updates through early 2015. Five paid DLC packs shipped between November 2013 and March 2014 (Shakespeare, Filth, Love at First Bite, Silver Screen, and Dancing with the Dead), alongside several free word-pack additions including a Football Manager pack and a Sci-Fi pack. The final developer communication was on March 27, 2015, when SEGA announced Custom Dictionary support — a free Steamworks tool allowing players to create their own word lists. All five listed DLC are released, no unreleased DLC exists on the store, and there have been no developer posts, announcements, or new content of any kind since March 27, 2015. The store description's "plus more to come" line dates from the original 2013 launch and has not been reaffirmed in over a decade. The game launched as a complete product and received its post-launch content cycle, which concluded in early 2015.
Evidence
Dancing with the Dead — the last of five paid DLC packs — released on March 20, 2014. All five DLC are now released with none listed as unreleased.
dlc listing · Mar 20, 2014 source content shipped
high
SEGA announced Custom Dictionary support as a free Steamworks tool — the final developer communication for the game.
news post · Mar 27, 2015 source content shipped
medium

Content

5 of 5 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
SEGA
Achievements
33
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer

About this game

Typing of the dead: Overkill fuses the horror and comedy of the legendary House of the Dead series with unique typing mechanics in order to deliver a truly original gaming experience!

This gruesome shooter puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou county. Blast pieces out of the zombie horde across 9 stages, one keystroke at a time, in order to save you and a friends life as you work to uncover the mystery behind the outbreak.

Features:

- Randomised kill-words to make every game experience unique;

- Your keyboard is the weapon – type bullet holes into those zombie hordes!

- Three difficulty levels included to test your typing skills to the max as well as a special ‘hardcore’ level for true keyboard warriors!

- Redefined HOTD gameplay to complement the new typing mechanics;

- Two-Player co-op multiplayer

- Full Steam integration

- Full and faithful port of the original PS3 edition of HOTD included in game

- Plus more to come
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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