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I'm not sure about games specifically made for language learning, but plenty of games have language settings.
I was looking to brush up on my Japanese and decided to replay Trails from Zero with the language set to Japanese. Its exposition was very complex with a ton of economic and political terms and just overwhelming. So pick something that suits your level if you can.
As for German, on Steam you can look for games that have German language support with something like this:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?supportedlang=german&ndl=1
Good luck with your learning!
Thanks fir the tip for filtering games on steams, unfortunately it also displays games where the audio is only in English but subtitles are available in German, which is not the best for learning purposes.
Good luck with your learning too!
use steamdb instead.
Amazing, thanks!
Thanks so much for that!
Reminded me of that time I tried playing JRPGs in Japanese to shore up my target language input. In between the pixelized kanji and lots of uncommon vocabulary, I gave up thinking I was just too early for that kind of thing.
I suppose playing Chrono Trigger and FF8 in JP was not a very good idea. I also have my doubts since some of the earlier consoles had JRPGs using kana exclusively (due to the state of character encoding at the time), and reading all-kana text is just a headache I am not prepared for.
EDIT:
Reworded some stuff for clarification.
Back when I was trying to use SNES games for learning, the kanji were often incomprehensible and there weren't all the phone apps that make looking stuff up easier. Trying to figure out what something was and then looking it up in a huge kanji dictionary was a huge barrier to it being useful. I can go a lot faster these days with being able to draw a kanji and usually getting a hit even if it's not perfect.
That comment about phone apps is so true! One time my SO tried playing Outer Wilds in JP, I had my phone out ready to to decipher kanji via JP handwriting support. We competed on who can get to a definition of the kanji or word the fastest, and I won almost everytime. Whereas I tried to do it via handwriting, my SO tries to sound out the word first, and then search it via romaji.
A huge difficulty with those JP SNES games is that