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Rough Draft

Released Jul 31, 2026by AhmedJalilNo user reviews(Steam reviews)

A cozy typing game about writing a book, one word at a time. Type through 10 storybook chapters where your words become the story, master golden and fading words, then race the clock in Sprint mode with global leaderboards. Warm paper, real page curls, and a boy who refuses to stop writing.

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About Rough Draft

"Before the first word, there is only the wanting to begin."

Rough Draft is a cozy typing game about writing a book — one word at a time.

Under an old oak tree, a boy traces letters in the dust. You are the hands on the keyboard. Every word you type becomes a word he writes: carved into leaves, washed away by rain, burned, buried, gathered again, and finally bound into a book. When a chapter ends, you read his story — and the words glowing on the page are the ones you typed.

A story you write to read

  • 10 chapters, 30 stages — a quiet tale of making something and refusing to stop

  • Your typed words are woven into every chapter's prose

  • Real page-curl transitions — the whole game turns like a book

  • Re-read every finished chapter in the book, page by page

Typing that feels good

  • Lock onto words, fire them home, and watch letters shatter like paper

  • Combos, speed bonuses, star ratings and S-grades for perfect pages

  • Golden words worth double — fading words you must save before the ink dries

  • The Manuscript: your progress is a draft page filling with your own words

Sprint mode

  • A clean, focused typing test — 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds

  • Live WPM, accuracy, and a results page made for sharing

  • Global top 100, friends, and country leaderboards

Made to be calm

  • Warm parchment, ink and terracotta — no timers screaming at you in story mode

  • An original acoustic soundtrack that follows the story's weather

  • Short sessions, gentle difficulty curve, no fail-spirals

Some pages will be lost. Some nights it rains. He keeps writing anyway — and so will you.

The story was finished. The writer was not.

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When does Rough Draft release?

Steam lists the Rough Draft release date as Jul 31, 2026.

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System requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 / AMD FX-4300
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 4000 / NVIDIA GT 520 / AMD Radeon HD 5570
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Any

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 / AMD Ryzen 3
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7870
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: any

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