Games for language learners - an IFDB Poll
by Emily Boegheim
RSS FeedWhat are some good games for people trying to learn another language? I imagine that short games with relatively simple prose and not too many non-standard commands (if they're parser games) would work best, but feel free to suggest games that don't fit those parameters, if you think they're suitable. Oh, and obviously good games are preferable!
Personally, I'm most interested in German games, but I'd like to hear recommendations for games in any language (including English!). Someone else asked about Spanish games once and got zero suggestions - hopefully we can do a bit better this time?
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| A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte 2 votes "Both in English and Spanish" [+]... "Translated to..." [+]...  Vote for this game | |
| PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen 2 votes "Has both an..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling 1 vote "Now in Spanish!" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Homunculus, by Michael Baltes 1 vote "Herbstlaub Winner" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| The Legend of the Missing Hat, by Adri 1 vote "Good for English learners" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Escape from Simian Island, by peter@gameenglish 1 vote "Written for English Language Learners" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Allein mit Kai, by Ingo Scharmann and Joana Markus 1 vote "Suggested by proc..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Es kam aus den Alpen, by Marius Müller as "Walther Rottenschneider" 1 vote "Speed-IF...." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Der Angstbaum, by Jens Bojaryn 1 vote "Suggested by proc..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Ares, by Michael Baltes 1 vote "very good implementation" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Squeaky on the Moon, by David Welbourn 1 vote "Rare Esperanto Game" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| PataNoir - Ein unvergleichlicher Kriminalfall, by Simon Christiansen ; Marius Müller (translator) 1 vote "the German translation of PataNoir" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| If You Go Down in the Woods Today..., by peter@gameenglish 1 vote "Written for English Language Learners" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Aventura Pirata, by Mauricio Diaz Garcia and Scott Adams 1 vote "Easy to read, tricky to play." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Die rote Blume, by Frank Sindermann 1 vote "Suggested by proc..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Dr. Kong in: Exploding Poodle Inevitable, by A W 1 vote "at the surreal end of things" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Escape | 逃出去: A text adventure game for Chinese learners, by Olle Linge and Kevin Bullaughey 1 vote "A Graded Reader Adventure in Mandarin Chinese" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers 1 vote "Available in both English and Dutch versions" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Der Schatten jener Sekunde, by Horst-Günther Rottenschneider 1 vote (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| El libro que se aburría, by Antonia Visiedo 1 vote "This is a funny..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Sunday Afternoon, by Christopher Huang (as Virgil Hilts) 1 vote "german translation now available" [+]... Vote for this game | |