Ludography
67/100
Players24 ratings
81/100
Critics2 reviews
More scores
Metacritic usersuser score
62/100
GameFAQsEasy-Just Right
3.26/5
Player reviews
83% positive570 reviews
Steam Deck
Playable
Runs on
Windows, Mac, Linux
Price
US$4.99

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Type: Rider cover

2013 · Agat Films & Cie – Ex Nihilo · Adventure · Indie

Type: Rider

Timed PlayStation exclusive

Type:Rider is an adventure puzzle game that brings gaming experience to a whole new daring level.

Released
2013
Platforms
AndroidLinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation VitaWindowsiOSmacOS
Genres
AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzle
Developers
Agat Films & Cie – Ex NihiloAudioGaming
Publishers
BulkypixArte
Modes
Single-player
Themes
ActionEducational
Country
France
Age ratings
ESRB E10+PEGI 3GRAC ALL
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
2.5hmain story4hcompletionist
Composers
Julien Joubert

About

Type:Rider is a video game developed by Agat Films & Cie – Ex Nihilo and published by Bulkypix and Arte. It was released in for Microsoft Windows, Android, and iOS in 2013, for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2016, and for Nintendo Switch in April 2019.

The game won the award for Artistic Consistency at the 2013 European Indie Game Days.

Players say

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Type:Rider is a puzzle-platform video game in which the player controls a colon punctuation mark through ten worlds based on existing typefaces from different eras. The game starts with cave paintings, then progresses to actual typefaces such as Garamond, Baskerville and Helvetica, with the final level revolving around digital fonts.

The colon can roll and jump in order to collect letters from each of the ten fonts as well as collectables such as asterisks and ampersands. Each era features pieces of arts that characterised them as well as its own soundtrack.

Reception

Review aggregator Metacritic gave the iOS version of Type:Rider a score of 83 out of 100 based on 13 reviews from critics, while the Switch version received a score of 66.

Eurogamer awarded the game with a score of 8 out of 10, praising how it manages to offer a combination of the style of Limbo and the challenges of the Trials series while also providing a framework for educating the player about the history of typography. Pocket Gamer gave the game a score of 3.5/5, commenting positively on the originality of the settings, but reporting the presence of a "few niggling problems".

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Android10 October 2013Worldwide
iOS10 October 2013Worldwide
Linux6 November 2013Worldwide
macOS6 November 2013Worldwide
Windows6 November 2013Worldwide
PlayStation 412 July 2016North America · Worldwide 21 July 2016
PlayStation Vita21 July 2016Worldwide
Nintendo Switch25 April 2019Worldwide

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