Keywraith

An arcade game where typing is the weapon. Words drift down, you type them, they explode.

What Keywraith is

Keywraith is a free game that runs in your web browser. You are a spell-slinger at the bottom of a dark arena. Enemies drift down toward you, each carrying a word. The first letter you press locks onto the most urgent matching enemy, every letter after that fires a shot at it, and finishing the word destroys it.

There is no text box to click into and no typing lesson. You just type, and things explode. It is a typing game the way a rhythm game is a music game. The skill is real, but the point is the arcade.

How you play

a–z attack. The first letter picks a target; each letter after fires.
Backspace releases your current target.
Space dodges. You are briefly untouchable.
Enter fires your ultimate, once the meter fills.
Esc pauses.

A physical keyboard is required, so it is a desktop or laptop game. There are three paces, six handcrafted campaign levels, and a daily challenge that is the same for everyone on a given day. The full guide covers the paces, the enemy modifiers and how scoring works.

What it costs, and what it needs

Nothing, and nothing. Keywraith is free, has no advertisements, sells nothing, and needs no installation or account. Every level and every cosmetic is available from the first time you load it. Nothing is locked behind progress or payment.

Signing in is optional

You never have to sign in. The entire game works without an account: every level, the daily challenge, all your progress, saved in your own browser.

If you choose to sign in with Google, you pick a username, and three things are added: your progress syncs between devices, your finished runs can appear on a public leaderboard, and you get a profile page at keywraith.com/u/your-username showing your bests and trophies. The profile page is on by default and can be switched off in Settings. That is all any of it is used for. The game never records what you type, only aggregate counts of how many letters were right and wrong.

The full details are in the Privacy Policy, and the rules for using the game are in the Terms of Service.

Who makes it

Keywraith is built and maintained by Aaryan Jha as an independent project. Questions, bug reports and deletion requests all go to hello@keywraith.com.