Mini Words: Polyglot
I love this game. You don’t have to know another language to play. You pick which order you want the languages to give you clues. If one language doesn’t give you a hint then just click a few times to see other languages. You can often tell from the foreign word, especially the more complex words are very similar to English and other languages. Russian never helped me. It’s totally different. You often have to think of synonyms, like the clue is “thema” which is like theme and it’s a seven letter word that starts with S and has a J in it…. subject. Part of it is finding the words, and part of it is making them fit together. The later levels will have four or five words in a letter grid, and it’s like putting together a puzzle to fit the words in… You can use letters more than once, but you can’t cross lines.
– Real player with 38.6 hrs in game
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This is a really nice game that includes several languages, including English, Russian, German, Portuguese, Spanish and French. This game will help you to learn or familiarize yourself with other languages.
There are 300 different levels to complete to unlock all the achievements. The game takes approximately 7 hours to complete. All the achievements are unlocked by completing all the levels, therefore none of the achievements are missable.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
PAGO FOREST: DRAGON’S REVENGE
Best 99 cents I’ve ever spent, like any good English class this game helped me to sleep
Highly recommended to any insomniac out there
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
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Relaxicon
At some point, when you’re far along in terms of earned points and don’t want the particular run to end, it becomes less Relaxicon and a bit more Concentraticon and even Tensicon. Mainly, though, it is a simple, fairly easy and relaxing way to pass the time and work your brain and language skills. I really like the very detailed dictionary-based explanation of each applied word. It’s especially good for those learning the language - or just wanting to broaden their vocabulary.
Much recommended!
– Real player with 39.8 hrs in game
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Pros
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Minimalist word game with great “feel” and responsiveness. Elements pop, float, and drift with natural animations.
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Gameplay is straightforward and self-explanatory. Like Scrabble or Boggle, it maintains its longevity through simplicity. Longer words score higher. Varied words prevent hitting the “same letter limit.”
Cons
- Dictionary is inconsistent. Sometimes word forms like past-participles, adverbs, and gerunds are allowed. Other times they are not. It all depends on whether the specific word is arbitrarily in the accepted word list or not. This becomes a problem when you’re at risk of a letter-limit game-over or fail a “minimum word length” challenge because you can’t add a -ing, -ous, or -tten suffix.
– Real player with 17.6 hrs in game
Typefighters (Steam Edition)
I’m gonna keep it very short and very.. whatever. I played this game a year ago and I took it again now just for fun xD
Well, I won only one thing in my entire life - European championships for typing speed or something like this. I mean, various titles in the same “competition” type XD
One can probably argue that this is one of the many causes that forced me to undergo surgery three times on my right hand, but this is another story.. xD
Well, I have always typed like at 700-800 characters per minute (NOT WPM, that means WORDS per minute! 800 words per minute I think not even an octopus). So this game was one of my very first choices on Steam.
– Real player with 55.6 hrs in game
This game has very great potential and I love the way it’s programmed. It has a very simple design, focusing only on the typing with no superfluous graphic distractions. The amount of modes is nice, and provides variety for those who want a simple game to play, and it also offers multiplayer options with people online. I personally play the Stream Mode, as it lets you know your WPM (since I purchased the game to help me type faster). HOWEVER. At the time of this review, I am VERY disappointed in the word choices: fake words, misspelled words, Roman numerals, acronyms, unnecessary apostrophes, proper nouns that aren’t capitalized, and way too many words about reproductive organs. I’m not sure if users are the ones who contribute to the word lists, but since you have to be online to play this game anyway, I think it would be better if the game just pulled words from an online dictionary instead.
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
QUIZ PRO! - General Knowledge
One big shit in the ass… Just … Don’t do it .
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Fast Typing Master
font is horrible.
Too fast for most people
But I like the difficulty.
I average 90WPM
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
I will have to say, about the font choice–it is a bit difficult to read, especially in a time crunch. The R’s and A’s are too similar, as are the O’s and D’s, the K’s and X’s, and U’s and V’s. By the way, there is a typo in the description before the level starts–“disappear” is spelled wrong, as “disapear”. Besides all of this, the game has great potential. The graphics are simple but very well done, and the increasing speed of the words makes for a great challenge.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Quiz Pro - Guess Pictures
very fun. Everyone should get a lil taste of Quiz Pro - Guess Pictures.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
“how did i mix up hitler for martin luther king”
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Anagraphs: An Anagram Game With a Twist
Anagraphs is a casual word game focused on finding anagrams. There is a literal twist, however, in that the game uses a specially designed font in which several letters are vertically symmetrical, meaning letters can be ‘twisted’ in order to create more letter options and therefore, more anagrams!
Overall, Anagraphs is a nice word game to enjoy casually during a break but doesn’t have much to offer beyond what can be seen on the surface. The premise is interesting but only holds one’s attention for so long. If you like word games it may be worth a look, especially since it’s free, but I’d recommend playing on mobile over PC.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
anagraphs calls itself a game with a twist and it doesn’t mean lemon slices, more of a perspective manipulation aspect. it’s a very simple thing: you get a bunch of letters and the number of anagrams to create, and besides moving letters around, some can also be clicked to rotate them by 180 degrees, so ‘u’ becomes ‘n’, ‘a’ becomes ‘e’, etc.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Nihongo Heroes
coming from someone that is N5 qualified and working on N4
1 its a good game
2 please dont give the answers for the vocabulary for EX the vocab at the top is written as blue/ao – stomach/i – train station/eki i think having the answer for the vocab is taking away from learning the word
3 all the monsters make the same sound when you kill them
its a good over all game my main complaint is the vocab giving the answers
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
This is one one of many games/resources I have for learning and practicing Nihongo. I ran through the first three levels and am impressed. What is great is that it does not use one consistent font for the kana - because they do look different to the untrained eye, as do any letters in a particular “font.” This adds a level of flexibility to the process of learning which is useful when some kana bear resemblance to others in different scripts.
I played about five hours of Japanese learning games today, between mobile and steam. This one was the last one of the night, and the perfect end to a educational night!
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Phantom Typist
Introduction
Phantom typist is the typing arcade game which you can learn and improve typing skill of Chinese characters.
Type correct Chinese characters to clear the falling blocks before they fill up the screen, get the high score at the leaderboard with various play modes and levels!
How to Play
1. Chinese character blocks will fall down
2. You need to type the correct word to remove the corresponding block.
3. If these blocks fill up the screen, you will lose.
4. Type fast and correctly to achieve high score.
5. Also, apply game modes to experience different rules.
Features
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Self-defined difficulty and game modes
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Show the meaning and pronounce of characters
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Game records
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Steam leaderboard
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Steam acheivements
Story mode and other features will be updated during early access!