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Lampscale · Published by Lampscale
3 user reviews — 100% positive (3 reviews) · 15 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Type Hatcher is purely an idle game that turns your typing into music. Every keystroke hatches eggs and plays a note from your party of pets. Dock them to a slim bar on the edge of your screen so they sing, shimmer, and grow while you work in any other app.
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Casual · 2026 · More under £5 games
About this game
Type Hatcher lives at the edge of your screen while you work, write, or browse. Every key you press chips away at your eggs and plays a note from the pets in your party, so your typing turns into music.
Expeditions
Hatch eggs to collect dozens of species across different biomes. Each pet is a different instrument, so what you hear depends on which ones you bring along. A party of grass pets sounds nothing like a party of cave pets.
Compact mode
Shrink the whole game into a thin bar pinned to any edge of your desktop. Your eggs glow in time with your typing and you'll catch the occasional shimmer for a coin bonus, all without stealing focus from your real work.
Idle
Your pets earn coins and charge on their own. Send them on expeditions, breed rare hybrids, and spend what you earn on upgrades and more hatch slots.
Keystroke detection
About keystroke detection: Type Hatcher can optionally count keypresses system-wide so your pets keep playing while you're in other apps. No content is ever recorded, only the count. It's off by default, opt-in on first launch, and you can toggle it in Settings anytime.
Parts of this game's code and store text were created with AI assistance. Art and music are not AI-generated; they're hand-made, procedural, or sourced from public-domain and CC0 audio.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
- Graphics: GPU with OpenGL 3.3 / Vulkan 1.0 support
- Storage: 150 MB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
V1.0.1 fix
- Fixed auto hatching triggering when it was not enabled.Read full article on Community Announcements (lampscale)Patch NotesOfficial
V1.0.1
- Fixed Release discarding overflow hatch progress; it now spills to other eggs, remainder banks. - Fixed auto-repeat turning off on pet swap and on unlinking biomes. - Fixed Night Owl shifting night instead of extending it (now 20:00 to 07:00). - Fixed party achievements getting harder with more slots; 5 matching pets max. - Fixed popups opening as separate OS windows; Steam overlay no longer reacts to them. - Bar mode: egg loading and bar settings are inline trays inside the strip; no popups in bar mode at all. - Bar mode: party and expedition rows are display-only; manage both in Full mode. Auto-repeat expeditions keep cycling as configured. - Fixed a frame drop when opening the egg picker. - Fixed shop text overflowing locked cards. - Fixed the application icon. - Reduced idle CPU/GPU use in both modes. - Hybrid Path: guarantee now applies only until the hybrid is discovered; owned card is a toggle. - Bar party row is display-only - Bar hatch slots visual improvements - Added a soft chime when an egg becomes ready to hatch. - Hatch All shows coin and shard prices. - Linked expeditions can be finished instantly from the pair card. - Added a day/night indicator. - Added a Controls list in Settings. - Expedition picker labels off-type sends as "2x slower". - Journal bonus text shows a stat-icon legend on hover. - Pair card hover names its hybrid. - Bar charge column explains itself on hover. - Bonus filters in the pet picker also sort, highest first. - Fixed hybrids not receiving party auras; synergy panel and expedition speed now agree. - Added Hybrid Egg Crate to the shop: 3 random hybrid eggs from your unlocked biome pairs, 16 shards. - Added Auto-Hatcher shop upgrade: right-click any hatch slot to auto-hatch and reload it; runs out into a paused state when you're out of that egg, and resumes on restock. New species and rainbows still wait for your click. - Hatch All now plays a paced cascade: each egg reveals in turn, then collects and reloads the next; new spe...Read full article on Community Announcements (lampscale)Patch NotesOfficial
Day 1 patch
- Some text overflow issues - Icon fix - Achievement was triggering too earlyRead full article on Community Announcements (lampscale)
