Top Language Learning Games

Wagotabi is an educational RPG teaching Japanese from the ground up. Immerse yourself in the language through interactive dialogues, quest-solving, and puzzles, all while exploring Japan and its rich culture. Will you become a Japanese master?

Influent is a Language Learning Game focused on rapid vocabulary acquisition in a 3D world featuring over 400 nouns, adjectives, and verbs with native pronunciations in 23 languages! Players have complete freedom to choose which words they want to learn without any need for pencils or books!

Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography. With your trusty camera, take photographs of the fictional streets of Japan to capture new words and images as fully translated flash cards!

Learn 1,000+ words and phrases in 12 languages - including Japanese & Spanish - with no subscription and no ads. Explore a colorful open world, beat vocab mini-games, and speak to NPCs using real speech recognition. Language learning that actually sticks, and actually feels like a game.

A kanji quiz game where you write kanji and compound words by hand. Test your kanji skills across multiple modes, from the accessible Entertainment Mode, to the challenging Serious Mode, the same-level Rush Mode, and the bonus score attack mode KAKITORI ISSEN.

Plunge into a new world with a completely foreign language in this romantic, yuri isekai visual novel about the struggles of communication and forging connection. Experience life in a foreign land. Enjoy a sweet, heartwarming romance. Learn Esperanto.

The Language Game is a 2 player quiz-style game that will improve your vocabulary and pronunciation as you play. Our innovative system lets you learn from any language to any other language, so each player can learn a different language.

The ideal introductory course to the Japanese language! Learn how to read and write Japanese characters (Hiragana) at a steady pace. A full-blown RPG specifically designed to keep you engaged. By playing along, you’re going to be introduced to the Japanese language like never before!

Explore a frozen fantasy world in an educational point-and-click adventure. Follow Flora, Freyja and Ramia through story-driven quests, learn English spelling and grammar, and face turn-based battles where words become your greatest weapon.

721 words. That is enough to cover 90% of conversations in English. Unscramble those words in Mini Words - a unique mix of puzzle, word search and hangman.

Resettle the shards of a shattered world in this peaceful roguelite deckbuilder, covering centuries of classical Japanese art. Nurture communities, befriend animal spirits, and shape a new civilization through choices that echo across generations.

Explore a planet, learn a language

Can you learn Japanese by solving puzzles? So to Speak is a game about wandering in Japan, looking at signs, overhearing conversations, and using context clues in the environment to figure out what it all means. No background in Japanese is assumed.

Want to improve your Spanish? Need a break from flash cards and listening exercises? Ready to put what you've already learned into practice? ¡Felicidades amigos! This is the game for you.

The most used nouns in English. Can you recognize them in another language? Unscramble frequently used words in a unique mix of logic puzzle, word search, and hangman.

This is the story, pure and sometimes frustrating, of two girls intertwined through their fumbling efforts to communicate. Learn a new language and the universal emotions behind our words!

Learn Japanese with a quiz that helps you review all Japanese characters that kids must learn when they go to school. From 1st grade all the way to secondary school, you can learn all 2,136 Joyo Kanji, their meanings and pronunciations.

A simple indie quality FPS designed as an introduction to language learning (solo developed). All 16 languages are included with full voice acting. Use your newfound language skills to save the city from an army of killer robots! Choose from Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish, Ukrainian and more.

Learn Russian with a quiz that helps you review words and phrases in Russian. Over 3,500 Advanced phrases, 350 Verbs, 1500 nouns and exactly 33 letters for all your learning efforts.

Turn any PDF, TXT or DOCX into an interactive visual novel. Pick an anime companion, upload a paper or any text you want to understand, and let AI turn it into a 5–10 minute story — with quizzes, voice narration, a blackboard for formulas, and full character customization via Steam Workshop.

Gain new vocab while playing a game! Learn 1,000+ words & phrases in a world that regains color as you learn. Test your skills with mini-games and talk to the local villagers. Learn Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, & more…

Learn languages through immersive quests, interactive dialogues, and spaced repetition combats. Help a young hero lift a magical curse by mastering a new language. Customize your learning experience and explore a vibrant world filled with unique characters. Start your journey to fluency today!

Touch Type Tale is the strategy game you control by typing! Join a brave new era of strategy — tactical typing. Use a satisfying mesh of mechanics across a range of surprising challenges, with storybook campaigning and online play. You are Paul. (Hi there.) And the keyboard to the kingdom is yours.

Learn Japanese kanji in this interactive role-playing game! No experience needed – start reading and writing in Japanese!

Want to improve your French? Need a break from flash cards and listening exercises? Ready to put what you've already learned into practice? Félicitations ! This is the game for you.

"Tropicalia: a Brazilian Game" is an RPG based on Tupi-Guarani mythology. The first bRPG!

A short Japanese-learning visual novel where you play as an exchange student in Japan, learn vocabulary through everyday conversations, and check words instantly with a hover dictionary.

Learn Japanese in this roguelike deckbuilder adventure brimming with Japanese flavor! Defeat yokai with your knowledge, gather omamori, and befriend the local guardian, Myōkun the Tanuki. Embark on your language-learning adventure and have fun!

Learn Chinese with a quiz that helps you review common Chinese characters you will come across in everyday text. By practicing and reviewing, you can learn 2,538 Hanzi, their meanings and pronunciations.

Shujinkou is a story-driven, turn-based dungeon crawler that provides players with the option to learn Japanese as they play. Play through an enthralling 80-hour story campaign as Shu, Jin, and Kou in a fight to save the world from the Akuma.

🎌 Master Japanese in an open world with single & multiplayer co-op. Learn through Anki flashcards, JLPT quizzes, voiced NPCs, lyrics, mnemonics, and thousands of pages of religious texts, novels, and classics. Explore, craft, fish, and battle with Japanese-themed cards. Major weekly updates. =^.^=

An alternate way for gamers to learn Korean. Shooting the enemies or playing the minigames—choose your fun starting point to learn a new language with anime aesthetic!

Idiom Crush is a relaxing and casual Chinese character puzzle game centered on classical Chinese idioms. Refer to the definition hints to examine the character grid, tap four Chinese characters in the correct order to locate and eliminate the hidden idioms.

Learn 500+ words across 12 languages (including Japanese + Spanish). Test your vocabulary to earn credits, unlock relaxing lofi tracks, and customize your study space. Put your progress on autopilot and watch your vocabulary grow while you chill.

Pitchforks & Paragraphs is an arcade-style medieval typing game where you defend the castle gates from waves of rioting peasants. Type the words on their signs to cast spellballs, stop the advancing mob, build score multipliers through accuracy, survive longer, and climb the global leaderboards.

A roguelike card battler that teaches you Japanese. Master words to serve meals and chain huge combos. Seal yokai in a haunted izakaya. From basic to advanced, every run teaches you something new.

Typing × English! Practice typing while learning English vocabulary. 2,809 words that cover over 92% of everyday English and 94% of TOEIC vocabulary, across 149 stages ordered by frequency. Now with three question modes and pronunciation audio for every word!

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Decode a runic cipher, then decide what it truly means. A quiet, occult detective word game: solve each scripture letter by letter, then type your own conclusion to answer a villager's question about a death, a fraud, a haunting, or an old secret.

Learn Japanese with a fun way to fixate the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries.

Type to fight. Every keystroke deals damage. Battle through campaigns, compete in ranked online PvP, challenge friends, and customize your ASCII warrior. 7 game modes, ELO rankings, global leaderboards, and 50+ unlockable portraits. Your keyboard is your weapon.

Four original puzzle games — words, logic, and patterns — wrapped in a single elegant arcade package.

A first-person horror game where you must learn Japanese or... Polly Glot, the crazy language learning app mascot will kill you!

Inspired by the real Javanese philosophy of Sedulur Papat Limo Pancer from Indonesia. A nearly 15-year-old student wakes after sunset, trapped inside her school. Searching for a way out, she uncovers terrifying supernatural secrets tied to her family—and discovers she has never been alone.

A first-person horror game where you must learn Spanish or... Polly Glot, the crazy language learning app mascot will kill you!

Logic Foundry is a circuit-building puzzle game where every solved design becomes a reusable chip. Start with simple traces and build toward a tiny 4-bit CPU. This is an alpha playtest. The campaign is playable, the game and levels levels are still in progress.

Dialogue changes from English to Japanese as you learn and progress in this comedic RPG backed by professional Japanese voice acting. This is a full 18+ hour introductory Japanese course and adventure all in one. Master hiragana, 136+ kanji, basic grammar, 240 common words used in anime.

Experience the first-ever point and click adventure game fully voice-acted in the Ojibwe language! Embark on an adventure where every word brings you closer to home and forge a path through a forest teaming with spirits, stories, and intricate puzzles inspired by Ojibwe culture and language.

The First Foreigner is a real-time multiplayer game of deduction and communication where speaking is off-limits. Use objects and gestures to explain a word, decipher your partner's clues, and push through every stage amid wild misunderstandings and ingenious ideas!

Connect letters that are laid around a dish to form English words.

A small introduction to Japanese. ⛩️🌸🍙 Hiragana is the most common alphabet, used for native words. Our flashcards show each character, its sound, and example words. Progress through fun Challenge Lessons, meet new kana, and reinforce what you’ve learned, step by step!

Learn and master the japanese phonetic alphabets at your own pace with this meditative language learning tool.

12 Letters, No Mercy. A fast-paced typing word game. Build words before your rack overflows. How long can you last before you hit your Character Limit?

Learn to read Japanese hiragana and katakana with this calm and focused educational app. Practice kana recognition through sound and visual quizzes. No writing or grammar - just reading practice at your own pace. Ideal for beginners in Japanese.

A fun & friendly way for children to learn about letters, words, keyboards and writing!

Lost Abroad Café: a language learning game that puts you in the role of a virtual café owner in another country. Learn and use your new language to serve your customers and grow your business. Try it now on Steam Early Access!

Take control of Peter as he travels across the kingdom, solving puzzles, making friends and defeating monsters. This game is designed to be accessible to a very broad range of players, including young children and people learning English as a second language.

Not your standard language learning application. This is the CrossFit of language learning apps. No multiple choice exercises, no grammar written out for you. Just you and the language, the same way you learned your first one.

Learning Spanish is Ruff!

Learn Words - Use Syllables is an exciting mix between a word and a trivia game. Words are split into colorful syllables and you have to put them back together as fast as possible. More than 100 levels with 8 Languages to learn.