
Lost Abroad Café: a language learning game that puts you in the role of a virtual café owner in another country. Learn and use your new language to serve your customers and grow your business. Try it now on Steam Early Access!
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Languages: English, Arabic, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Hindi
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Absolutely love this!! As someone who has studied multiple language, as well as Language Acquisition and Learning/Teaching, this game is a wonderful game for leaping into some effective language learning from zero!! It's immersive with minimal notes to make sure you can understand. Clickable words to check for meaning. Repeated dialogue to familiarise with a language's sounds and sentence structure using short and brief, yet natural dialogue. I've run into language games that boast about being the thing that will make you fluent when it's just a flashcard game with barely any context or direction to it's lessons (looking at a certain green bird in particular). This game has proper teaching goals and direction, and doesn't boast beyond it's clearly defined scope. The graphics and UI are a bit rough, but that's literally the only reasonable complaint.
good game for learning languages and also reviewing and practicing them
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Hours played at review time, across 38 reviews with recorded playtime.
Actually a great way to practice languages, especially for kids. Looking forward to more updates!
Early Access Review: This game is super cute and has a lot of potential! This would be fantastic for grades 7-10ish, though it works just as well for adults. I hope to see the creators have the opportunity to continue working on it!
LAC has good ideas and the gameplay itself is pretty cute/good when you play a couple of minutes every once in a while. But the game is clearly not finished and the language learning aspect is severely lacking. It has many minor bugs, the UI has issues, some mechanics are not fleshed out or polished etc. Language learning is nothing more than a small amount of words that keep getting repeated. It's more of a normal game than truly learning something out of it. I'm also worried of potential language mistakes with the Japanese version. This game was in early access and it's clear that it was quietly 'finished' sooner than it should have. It's a shame because again, the gameplay idea is good. It might still be worth experiencing for that if you can get it on the cheap.
Update: Originally there was a bug in the tutorial that prevented me from progressing. Since the new patch update, I am very much enjoying the game! THIS GAME IS SO FUN AND EDUCATIONAL! I really enjoy the timed modes and the upgrade system. I cannot wait to play even more as we learn multiple languages along the way! There were a few times the customers did not speak, but it was easy to read the order request. There was another small issue of no customers and simply leaving the cafe and restarting the timed mode refreshes and fixes? it. Overall, def rec this game now that the major bug has been patched! Thank you devs for listening and taking action to fix! 🥰
UPDATE: (July 23, 2025) Confirmed today (post bug-fix update) the issue with NPC dialog not appearing and not speaking IS STILL a bug. Review remains thumbs down. UPDATE: Changing from thumbs up to thumbs down due to the increasing frequency of the NPC dialog not showing up. The issue seems to get worse the higher your score. It is now 1/5 restarts of the game where the dialog boxes appear. Without dialog or the text dialog boxes it is a game of handing over random items until you get lucky enough to land upon the 1 or 2 items they want. Not exactly a learning experience. Wait for the developer to fix this rather large bug. Original review below: A fun design with game play that holds interest longer than most language learning games, however the vocabulary is extremely limited at the moment. Even at $5 the cost per word seems a bit high. The game also has a few bugs where the NPCs won't speak or the buttons don't appear, requiring restarts (sometimes several) to fix. As this is an early access game leaving a yes recommend, but advise waiting for more content or a sale to bring the price to words learned ratio more in your favor.
The premise is great, however it can be executed much better, which i hope it will be <33
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