Lingotopia

I really would love to love this game, but I simply can't bring myself to in its current form. Despite that, I will provide some of the pros and cons of this game. Let's start first on a positive note: + Good concept and would be great for people who prefer an exploratory method of language learning. + Automatically saves words into a list in order of how they are learned. + Provides written and spoken pronunciation guides Now on to the bad news: - Tank controls: No game in the modern age needs tank controls and if they did, they had better run much more smoothly than this. Moving the character is like a slip and slide that no one asked for. - Spoken guides are extremely quiet and the sound quality is lacking. I would also appreciate an option to slow down the audio to better hear how new words are spoken. Also, when selecting a word in the dictionary, the spoken guide occasionally does not match what is written. - Clipping happens way too often. - fixed camera angles makes it har...

First of all I've met bug which makes it unplayable. The audio and text for the chinese disappears, this has happened thrice and the only way to get it back that I've found is to start a new game file, which means starting all over again. Still without this bug I wouldn't reccommend this game for severeal reasons: 1. There is sooo much walking, without anything happening. You are just walking. This might have been okay if you could walk at a reasonable speed. 2. To find your way you have gotten a guide, which walks even slower than yourself. Give me map, please! Or have people arond town direct you throught the language you are learning. 3. You replay the same stuff over and over again to learn a couple new words per sentence the people you are talking to are saying. Which by my estimates (I haven't got chance to test because of the bugs) means I have to go through the same slow-walking "adventure" at least ten times to be able to find out what they are saying. 4. There is no way to...

This game is amazing - from concept to actual gameplay, the language learning community lacks interactive and engaging methods of teaching such as what this game provides. As is to be expected with release day, there are some minor bugs as mentioned by other reviewers. However, I found that none of them truly affected my gameplay and I still learned tons and had tons of fun in my first hour. The developer is also very active and helpful, and has been pushing out daily updates to fix bugs, so it's only a matter of time before things are smooth. Many people complained about the steering and controls; theyre not normal by any means but theyre not really that bad. Turning does feel like you're driving a tank but you get used to it pretty quickly. Also, don't worry about the "required" graphics card. I bought and played the game on a toaster and had great fps the whole time. I highly recommend the game, it is a lovely experience and incredibly helpful for learning a language.

I paid $20 for this game. I cannot believe I did that. This is at most a $5 game. Absolutely rife with bugs. Gameplay is very boring and feels like an amateur high school project. Many flaws that hinder gameplay and enjoyment and unless you feel like joining the discord to pester a defensive dev to fix them, they will most likely not be fixed, since the dev has stated that he is not interested in updating the game any further. Having played the game in both a language I know and a language I don't, I feel like beginners would learn very little of their target language, and certainly not enough to 'supplement' their language learning journey. Clearly the dev did little research into language learning. Absolute scam.

I want to leave a review here because many people gave bad review because of the bugs in this game. I can definitely say that a lot of those bugs are fixed quickly by the devs and by version 1.02 it is playable for me. There are some more things I would like to be changed by the devs such as the movement controls which feel like driving a tank, but I'm sure the devs are working on it and I will update this review when the devs changed the movement system. As for learning the language? Yeah, it really feels like you are dumped in a strange environment with a strange language that you must learn to understand what the people are saying. Really helps with the immersion problem I've been having when learning a new language. I managed to learn extremely quickly using this game, so I say this game really achieves the goal of helping people learn a new language. It is rare seeing a language learning game like this in Steam, other than Influent as far as I know, but it's good that we're havi...

Just had to come back here and check if it states "Alpha" or "Early Access" or "Rip-Off" somewhere. ... Nope.

I love language learning and wanted to check out a new approach. Actually I heard about this game quite a while ago when it wasn't published yet. Now I tested it and this saying: I learnt a couple of languages already so I'm not new to language learning. Pros: - New setting - Good graphics - Intriguing story Cons: - Too slow progress. I played 20 minutes and learnt 1 word. The games states 40 words, but I can only recall one word actively. With other apps I can learn 10-20 wordsactively in 5-10 minutes (e.g. Duolingo, LingQ, Anki). - Only translations for words you "learnt" already in the boxes. I'd like to translate the sentences manually and not wait until the game thinks I'm "ready" - Character and hare far too slowly moving. I insulted my hare frequently because she didn't walk faster xD Now I'm hoping for refund since I'm not going to use this game for language learning.

I can only recommend this game if bought at a heavy discount and you can ignore the bugs. The dictionary shut down several time during my ~10 minute play time and the experience was mediocre at best. The best part of the game is the ability to see and have the translation of objects. It makes it so much easier in my mind to understand these items in the language I'm learning. However, this game does not deserve the pricetag. I bought the game at about $5 and even still it's almost not worth it. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME WITHOUT UPDATES AND/OR A PRICE REDUCTION

This game certainly isn't the best, however I would personally say it is worth the 20 USD. It is buggy and at times it crashes, though it is unfair to expect much more from a game that has been released for five days. Despite this, the art style is easy on the eyes and the game serves its purpose of emersing you in a place of the chosen language. As for the translation, the seven (i think) base languages are well translated and are great, though the community translations (the other languages like hungarian, danish and dutch) aren't the best. In addition to this, I enjoyed the world that the game lets you explore and the worldbuilding the game has. Overall, if you want to learn Russian, Chinese, French, german, Japanese, or Spanish, this is a great game. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't suggest it.

-All-in-all, this game can be summed up as half-baked. -Let's start of with the positives. There is demand for language games and the general concept and atmosphere works fairly well for that demand. when the atmosphere works right and the music (If you can find it) plays, the game does lighten up and become less boring and/or tedious. -Sadly, there's many more negatives than positives. First things first, -This is not a $20 game. This is at most a $10 dollar game. I understand that hiring various voice-actors for various languages isnt cheap but there's nothing in the game that could really solidify a $20 price as is. -This game isn't finished and is advertised as finished -The camera and movement are terrible. The camera is stiff and is stuck in an uncomfortable bird's-eye-view that is only able to be moved horizontally. If the camera was in a 3rd-person view the game would open up more and the aesthetic could really shine with the designs and the music. -The movement i...