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As Malum Caedo, purge Graia’s Chaos forces in a rail shooter where typing Warhammer words fires your weapon.
Released 22 May 2025
Type to Shoot
Type Warhammer Phrases
Blast Barrel Targets
Type like your life depends on it in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – Words of Vengeance! Smite the enemies of the Emperor with every keystroke spelling their demise. But every typo could mean the difference between life and death.
Developed by Auroch Digital · Published by Auroch Digital
Play as Malum Caedo on Forge World Graia, fighting to cleanse it of cultists, traitors, and Chaos daemons. This first-person rail shooter recasts the Boltgun setting as a typing game.
Words and phrases appear over enemies; type them correctly to fire, with each keystroke contributing to the attack. Faster typing brings faster kills, while mistakes can leave you exposed to enemy attacks.
Prompts draw on Warhammer 40,000 lore and are randomized between runs. Levels include encounters with bosses, and each level offers four difficulty settings.
Many supplied reviewers enjoy the unusual switch from aiming to typing as a way to fight, finding it entertaining and sometimes funny in the Warhammer setting. Some also value it as typing practice, while the lore-heavy words add a challenge. Reviewers frequently note that the experience is brief.
The Mechanicum of Mars have gifted you a blessed new weapon - a keyboard! Brutally decimate hordes of daemonic scum with every keystroke, in this fast-paced rail shooter. None can stand against the might of your WPM!
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Words of Vengeance is a creative twist on epic boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Instead of mowing down your enemies with elite FPS skills, kill the relentless hordes of enemies that descend upon you by typing out words.
Set in the world of Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, play as Malum Caedo on his mission to cleanse Forge World Graia of cultists, traitors and Chaos daemons that threaten to overrun it.
Put your typing skills to the test by typing out randomised words and phrases from Warhammer 40,000 lore to end the lives of your foes. Time to brush up on the spelling of Manufactorum, Incommodus, and Astronomican!
Obliterate your enemies by quickly typing their death sentences but beware as one typo could spell your own demise.
Creative reimagining of Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun as a first-person typing game.
Randomised words and phrases from Warhammer 40,000 lore to make every playthrough unique
The faster you type, the quicker you kill.
Difficult to master with 4 difficulties for every level
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 8 |
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| Controller required | No |
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