Flashcard Hero

I'm terrible at memorising vocabulary so I want to find a fun way that might be better at helping me learn. Flashcard Hero is exactly that - it's fun, fast-paced, and intense. I didn't expect it to be so fast, but it makes for a laugh. I've not played it for long, but I recommend it all the same.

The game is decent, but it is abandoned. Be sure to buy it on sale for the price to be worth an abandoned game. With a little love I would be praising the hell out of this game tbh. EDIT: Heard back from the developer, not abandoned just needs a little love and time. <3

This is a small collection of multiple-choice flashcards devoid of sentential context and grammatical information. I've completed all the German content and it has been utterly pointless. The response options largely make learning optional as you can make your way through the entire game by eliminating options or vaguely recognizing a letter or two per word pairing. There are no mechanics requiring active recall of any sort. And speaking of mechanics, it is worth mentioning that this is more of an animated flashcard deck than a game. By responding correctly to the word prompt you lower the HP of your enemy (i.e., you progress through a small deck of flashcards), and when you've defeated the enemy (i.e., completed the deck) you gain experience and level up, which allows you to invest points into a few stats. Increasing your damage or crit reduces the amount of learning you need to do to complete each unit (on average). Increasing the amount of time available to respond removes any possible time pressure. The other stats are completely without impact unless you're really, really struggling. That's it. Out of all possible ways to gamify language learning this is probably one of …

Helpful game, with enough content. Worth the price :)

Love it--exactly what I was looking for.

Setting aside any other issues with the game (and there are several), unless I'm missing something - and I don't think I am - there is no audio for the target language words, which means this game is missing perhaps the MOST CRITICAL part of language learning. As the reviewer Monad correctly points out below, this game then is just "rapid visual search and recognition", which is not AT ALL what language learning is. I love the idea and wish the developers good luck in their future work, but this offers less learning *and* less gamification than what a free Duolingo or Quizlet account would offer, let alone an open-source program like Anki.