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Kill Zombies With Your Own Words in Typing of the Dead Custom Dictionaries Update

Create your own dictionaries for Typing of the Dead: Overkill.

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Typing of the Dead: Overkill will now let you type zombies to death with words of your choosing, Sega has announced.

Typing of the Dead: Overkill plays just like a light gun game you'd find at an arcade, but instead of pointing and shooting at zombies you type in specific words that appear on screen in order to kill them. With the Custom Dictionaries update, players can create their own list of words that will appear in the game, and offer them to others through Steamworks.

Basically, all you have to do is create a text file with a list of words and add it to the game. You can find instructions on how to do this here.

Players are already adding their own dictionaries to the game, and as you'd expect, using them for nefarious means. One user has created a "Social Justice dictionary," which includes racist, sexist, and anti-semitic words. At the time of writing, the mod was still available to download.

Sega and developer Modern Dream has done a great job of supporting Typing of the Dead: Overkill since it was first released in 2013. They've released several pieces of DLC which let you play the game with different dictionaries, like the Shakspeare DLC, and the foul-mouthed Filth DLC.

The game is currently on sale for $5.

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