Steno Arcade

Steno Arcade is made for teaching and drilling steno writers. The idea is brilliant: type the lyrics of a song while it's played. Indeed, you have a guitarist on the scene, that is singing for the audience in front of him. The more you're writing correctly, the best it is. However, this is insanely too hard. The easy song was a disaster, the very hard is impossible and the game wants you to write names that aren't common. Worst of it, I fail to see how it will help indeed to be a steno writer with that speed. Besides, I may have been also disavantaged because of my keyboard layout, which is an AZERTY. And when you read the description, you need the accurate keyboard to fully enjoy the game. After 9 minutes, I was frustrated. I'm used to write English but in the end, with that game, you'll resort to write the easy words. Also, for it to be validated, you need to press SPACE at the end of each word. And when it's passing to another sentence, if you're writing, you'll have to be quick to press SPACE and to write another word. What is missing is easier levels. I mean why not imagine to begin with words to write in the lyrics instead of the whole sentence. Or to imagine to have a music and to have more time to write a sentence than the real singer is saying? Besides, if it's a matter of being fast to write something, usually, you're using shortcuts before writing properly. The soundtrack is great, the graphics are nice too as they're retro. But it doesn't save the game to be a huge challenge for whoever doesn't own a steno keyboard or for whoever hoped to have a nice typing game. For that, there is Epistory. Anyway, if you're not a steno writer or if you don't own the proper material, just be prepared to be frustrated. Everything is there to have a good moment. But for a huge base of players, at this stage, if there is no easier difficulty or other challenges that could to type songs, even if it's free-to-play, it will be too hard for you. I'm not even sure if this game could be used in school without the proper material.

A really fun game to practice typing or a Steno keyboard with. I tried adding more music by adding more .lrc files but it seems as though that's not possible but hopefully it will be in the future. Keep in mind though that with a normal keyboard the game is VERY hard even on the lowest, and by VERY hard I mean the hardest difficulty Is pretty much the Dark Souls of typing games.

This game taught me the existence of steno machines https://youtu.be/13j56WFJfrE Pros: - Awesome Songs - Great Typing Practice - Simple and Addicting Cons: - Only 4 songs for now

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i love this game i don't know why 10/10

Way too fast even on easiest (for me). Maybe a real steno master could do it but I was hoping I could build my proficiency. Some of the words cut off as soon as the singer is done with the word ... waay too fast for me. Fun but would be nice to have an entry level for people just starting.

Steno Arcade is a great project: it's a suite of games meant to practice typing on stenotype machines (i.e. not your regular laptop keyboard, but some pretty specialized devices that let you type much faster - once you've learned how to use them). When I played it in Early Access, there was only one game out of the four planned (Steno Hero), which lets you type the lyrics of some nice songs karaoke-style. With a normal keyboard, only the very easy and easy songs are playable, higher levels of difficulty may prove quite frustrating - but it can be an incentive to discover stenotyping ;) The game is provided with its source code for the open source Godot game engine, so you can actually check how it is designed and tweak it for fun. The community also provided a nice tool to let you create your own song templates, so there's potential for a lot of community-made content.

"Steno Arcade" is an abandoned Early Access selection of "educational" minigames intended to teach the nobody who wants to learn how to do Stenography how to do Stenography. Poor quality implementation certainly contributed to this bad idea implemented badly being recieved badly. What do you do in the game? The minigames are all trite little exercises with little to no value as games... this isn't a great way to teach Stenography either. This isn't making Stenography better, it's just making gaming worse. The developers abandoned this 7 years and 7 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 13 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.