Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun: Words of Vengeance originally launched as a stopgap/marketing gimmick to coincide with the announcement of Boltgun 2. But it appears to have gone down swimmingly with the Boltgun playerbase in its own right, having accrued a ‘Very Positive’ Steam rating out of 1,700 reviews. The 2.5D blaster’s free-to-play spinoff swaps out clicking on enemy heads to kill them in traditional shooter fashion for keyboard-based mass murder a-la The Typing of The Dead.
Words of Vengeance is deeply silly and entirely disposable, but a far more entertaining way to test your WPM than Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. There is one recurring complaint developer Auroch Digital has received, however. Well, actually there were two complaints, but one of them was from players who had mistaken Words of Vengeance for vanilla Boltgun and were aggrieved that they had to kill people with words rather than bullets, so we can disregard that.
The actual complaint was that there wasn’t enough of Words of Vengeance, from both a structural and lexical standpoint. In response, the developer has released a new update that effectively doubles the spinoff’s size.
