Dedicated games just for language are interesting. I think they can be too heavy handed about teaching, where they should be about using simple language and creating context that makes words obvious. Still, they make me curious and I’ll try out some examples from the comments here.

I just tried the Wagotabi demo since @[email protected] mentioned it here a week or two ago. It’s a game to learn Japanese specifically. Only the demo is on Steam, but it seems like a pretty cool thing. It’s like a top-down RPG where you travel to Japan and learn a few words at a time. The demo has you going through an airport and talking to people, and you need to understand a few words to do some tasks. The beginning is maybe too basic (since I’m not quite a beginner), but I’m sure it gets more involved in the full game.

I also tried out Influent this week. I couldn’t really figure out how to add words or show mastery. But it has you run around your small apartment and point at things to read/hear how to say them. So far I’m not a big fan, but maybe I’m missing something.

I also mentioned this in the weekly thread, but slightly off-topic shoutouts to Chants of Sennaar. Deals a lot with translating a made up language, and is super fun.