Final Sentence is a “battle royale typing game,” which is a weird idea but also one that sounds like it might be kind of fun, at least if you can type reasonably well. We first heard about it in 2025, when PC Gamer keyboard showboat Harvey Randall took it for a spin, finding potential but also that it was “a tad undercooked” at the time.
The concept is simple: You are sitting behind a typewriter, and a masked man with a gun is standing beside you. Type fast and accurately, or get one in the head. There’s a round-based battle royale mode and a one-on-one duel mode, and a range of AI opponents for solo typists.
Six months after Harvey tried his hand at that pre-release build, Final Sentence launched on Steam, and while it hasn’t been a huge hit, it’s amassed a respectable “very positive” rating across nearly 800 user reviews. And now developer Button Mash is urging players not to buy the game—right now, that is.
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“I want to make a short announcement about the upcoming sale so those who haven’t bought the game yet can save a couple bucks for a coffee or a compressed air duster for your keyboard,” the studio wrote (via GamesRadar). “Seriously, that thing is worth buying to clean years of dust and food crumbs out of your keyboard.”
And yeah, that’s all you’re going to save. The amount of the discount wasn’t shared but Final Sentence is regularly $10/£9.09/€10.25, so even at half price you’re only saving a fiver. But hey, five bucks is five bucks—and right now, that’s enough to get you Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, after which you can join the rest of us in being mad that we’ll never see the trilogy concluded.
Anyway, back to the point: A post about the announcement on Reddit, entitled “This is literally the nicest thing I’ve seen on Steam” (and which omits both the name of the game and a link to the announcement or store page, which is not nice at all, although the OP did eventually add it in a comment), has attracted more than 33,000 upvotes and sparked some interesting conversations: Many express gratitude for the heads-up, some say the dev is just trying to avoid having to deal with refunds after the price goes down, and others claim it’s all just a marketing stunt.
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Personally, I say all of the above, and that’s perfectly fine: If doing a solid for potential customers spares you some headaches and gooses sales, who cares if it’s an intentional marketing effort? Frankly I think that’s the kind of promotional behavior we should encourage.
Button Mash didn’t say when the sale will start beyond “sometime near the end of this week,” but when it does the studio will release an update adding real-time leaderboards to Final Sentence, along with “full localization of Knockdown prompts for all languages,” Steam trading cards, and variable difficulty for bots. In-game leagues, a new result screen, and an OST are also planned.
“I know all you really want is more players online,” Button Mash wrote. “We’ll see how many we can bring in with this sale. Almost 350,000 people have wishlisted the game, so let’s see what happens.”
