Lingotopia Reviews

I've been excited for this game since I first saw it on Kickstarter, as I thought it would be an interesting way to learn Japanese, a language I have fallen in love with. Unfortunately, I was unable to support it at the time, but it appears that I may have dodged a bullet. I bought this expecting it to be a great way to help myself learn a new language. Instead, what I got for my not insignificant £15 was a glitchy, infuriating mess. The player character, as well as their guide, clipped through every conceivable object. The handling on the player character was so similar to that of a broken shopping trolley that I often felt I got to my destination in spite of the controls. There were many spelling errors in the English, and I had to force quit because the game didn't feel like continuing. I was incredibly disappointed, and I feel like £15 was far too much to pay for such a broken game. EDIT: It has been a few days since the game has been released, and the developer has done a wonderful job of fixing bugs and other quality of life changes. It pleases me to say that I can now recommend this game. The only problem I have with it now is that the player character still handles like a tank, and the game is padded slightly by the character feeling like they're walking through treacle. Apart from that, however, it is a great way to expand your passive vocabulary in a language.

It took me 10 minutes of playing to accidentally bug out the textboxes and camera. The game itself clearly has work put into it, with how many languages are available. The game itself though, feels as if it's still an alpha build. Dunno, thought it wouldn't be this buggy, I guess. As of 08/03/19, rating 3/10.

Within 5 minutes I sent a refund request. Poorly made, not worth paying for, maybe good for a free game but honestly there is no explanation into the game as to what is happening makes 0 sense wouldn't recommend at all

I think this game has a lot of potential. The fact that they have native speakers using colloquial phrases (at least for German) is extremely useful as that is something most games and applications miss. It does look and feel like it's in alpha, but I always appreciate the information in the game first over graphics, etc. Despite the glitches, I really hope this game will move forward to become the first choice of its type. I can see this becoming a great mobile game as well and would absolutely purchase if it were available. I enjoy learning languages and it is difficult to find affordable interactive applications, so this game especially for its price fulfills that niche for me. I do enjoy some of the fourth-wall breaking by some of the characters and did not expect so much comedy from some interactions in the game. Overall, the looks are a bit bare and the navigation (not being able to move the cursor while moving) can be a little frustrating, but that does not take away the essence of the game. I very much enjoy the concept of this game and I have been waiting years to find a game like this. I look forward to more updates.

I would recommend... if you LOVE language enough to look past the bugs, and you get it on sale. I would love this game if it worked properly and had a bit of a polish (not Polish, but that would be good too). I honestly feel like this is an excellent way to learn languages, but it needs an amazing game designer to make it great. Major Issues: -Long time since last update? -Crashed on dictionary -Clipping through buildings -Tank controls ( the camera only moves when you move the cursor to the side of the screen) -Style ( looks like PS1) Please update, gracias, danke, tusen takk, thank you.

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

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.

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.

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 mark words you already know as learned so this makes the progresss feel even slower. Some rounds I only get words I know. 5. There is little use of the environment to give context to what is being said. The true strength of immersion is that you hear and read something and can connect it to things around you. This is barely used from what I can see. Huge fruits placed around town which you can click on to get the word in your target langauge does not count. 6. Little interaction. Go pick up something from someone quests would be great to learn nouns instead of the humungous fruits and berries everywhere. Having to actually answer questions and in some way insulting someone or making a friend or getting a confused look would help. Just anything other than a flashcard-like walking simulator. The artwork is cute, the concept is OK, but isn't that well executed. The learning more and more to get the full context is a good idea and feels kind of like a mystery, but when you have to do the really slow walk through the entire town before you get anything more of the story it just gets annoying. Without the bugs I would have thought the game was oky-ish, but with them it just seems like rip-off and not worth it at all. I would not reccomend this game, it is not fun, it will not teach you much more than flashcards can do and it takes a really long time since you have to walk behind the slowest guide ever. I would have liked to get throught he story enough time to understand it, but I'm guessing I'm not missing much.

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 hard to see where you are going and/or the camera clips through NPCs when engaged in a conversation. Overall, I would not recommend this game to anyone as it is now. I am hoping that the developers will continue to improve it as time goes one, because I do like the concept and it would be a fun and unique way to learn a language on ones own. Hopefully, we can see something a little more polished in the future.