Earthlingo

Earthlingo

Earthlingo · October 17, 2019 · Free to Play, Casual, Education, Language Learning

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About Earthlingo

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Earthlingo is a vocabulary learning game where you play as the alien Maco, exploring Earth and learning words across 28 languages by discovering items in the game world and using spatial memory to boost recall. Master over 1000 words and 50 sentences, then put your new language skills to the test by defeating evil robots and saving humanity.

Earthlingo is a vocabulary learning game. You play as the alien Maco, exploring Earth and learning one of 28 different languages.

Every item in Earthlingo is an opportunity to learn a new word. The game world lets you associate each word with a location, improving recall.
Once you learn new words, use them to defeat evil robots and save the humans of this beautiful blue planet.

Earthlingo teaches 1000+ words and 50+ sentences in 28 languages all for free!
(Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese)

The best place to follow development, submit bug reports and feature requests is Earthlingo's Reddit page.

Notes:
  • We have recently changed our main character, we will leave up a beta version of Earthlingo with the original green alien for sentimental value. This is available via the Steam beta channel originalgreenalienmarch2023. If you explore the newest version of the game, you may also find some traces of our old friend :)

Earthlingo — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

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Earthlingo is a free vocabulary learning game that players praise for its effective recall mechanism and substantial content across multiple languages like Arabic, Russian, and Japanese. Common complaints include janky interface issues, unclear game mechanics in certain minigames, technical bugs like kanji display problems on Linux, and occasional clicking accuracy problems. Players see it as a solid beginner tool for quick vocabulary building, though most recommend moving on to other learning methods afterward.

Recommended Oct 16, 2026
used for cs2 pretty good
Recommended Oct 15, 2026
Very primitive game, has bugs, but is really cute. Kinda repetitive though. Would love more content and more variation in mini games. Would recommend to play.
Recommended Sep 16, 2026
Quick capture of vocabulary. Tested to learn Arabic and Russian, the recall mechanism is good.
Recommended Aug 7, 2026
idk why it says i only have 0.9 hours on record but i have a good handful more than that. anyway this game is a nice resource being free. it's a bit janky but really who cares. if you've looked at a game like shashingo imagine one that actually has way more content. idk if this will get more updates but just download it run around and get some basic vocab in. because, just like shashingo or wagotabi or other beginner games they're meant to be done with fairly quickly. you should move on to other forms of input and output and what have you. i don't know if im afraid or anticipating the day a big studio comes in and makes a game like this with even more vocab that's less jank and steals this format's swag
Not recommended Jun 13, 2026
I've only given it a short time so this review doesn't carry a lot of weight, but I couldn't really play for longer. Trying to learn Japanese, I made the mistake of playing a minigame which has you serve customers what they want to eat. Not only does it not tell you what you're supposed to be doing so I thought something was broken, the game expected me to have memorised what I'd learned in there even though I was playing just based on homophones. Recognising 'piza' is one thing, remembering how to spell 'I would like' in japanese is something I hadn't put any concious effort into and now I needed to know that just to heal myself. That's not a massive deal by itself, but it feels like the game is flooded by little issues like that. I can't see kanji (linux issue?), the interface is clunky and unexplained, the game says 'wa' but expects you to say 'ha' without explanation, the game prioritises romanji which can be detrimental, there's just way too many issues for 0.3 hours of play and it doesn't even feel like this is an effective way to learn.
Not recommended May 20, 2026
Wasn't able to select language except 'English'

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