You know how in fantasy worlds, its all english? Kinda breaks the immersion a bit. I wanna find something where they make it as realistic as possible, and make everything in a fictional language, basically using subtitles as the main way to understand the plot.
Lol the sims, which also is a completely learnable language.
But no, probably other better ones listed here.
Chants of Sannaar is a puzzle game where all of the text is written in a new language
I. Love. This. Game. SO MUCH.
Devastated when it was over.
Would recommend Case of the Golden Idol for a similar detective vibe.
I specifically liked the linguistics aspect, wrapping my head around the languages, but this does look interesting too so thanks for that :)
Some of the DVD/Blu-ray versions of “GalaxyQuest” have the entire movie dubbed into the weird screeching alien language as a quirky bonus feature.
Thermian. One of the all-time greatest gags we lose in the streaming era.
There are plenty of things in “Dutch”, a fictional language based on the Netherlands.
It’s a real language, it’s just German spoken by a person with a head injury /s
Far Cry Primal is completely in the fictional We ja language.
Star Trek will occasionally throw out the full speech Klingon, but they are usually subtitled…
Some notable language-based games:
- Tunic
- Chants of Sennaar
- Heaven’s Vault
- I Mother (not released yet)
Spoilers about Tunic's language
The writing in the game is actually an alternate way to write English phonetically/phonemically. So the game technically is in English but you can’t understand it. There are guides on how to read it, but it always seemed like too much effort for me so I never did.
You haven’t experienced Shakespeare properly, until you’ve heard it in its original Klingon! /s
Some people stuggle to learn a second language their entire lives. These badasses did it for a gig!
Just watch a foreign movie mate. Smth in a language you do not know.
PS. Otherwise look at English ones in the way Tolkien intended. Its translated for you from a fictional language.
Lord of the Rings purports to be a translation of the fictitious Red Book of Westmarch, with the English language in the translation representing the Westron of the original, translators need to imitate the complex interplay between English and non-English (Elvish) nomenclature in the book.
The Gollum game has a paid DLC for Sindarin (Elvish), though the game is pretty horrible.
Sigur Ros is a band that sings in a fictional language, I’m pretty sure. Not totally what you’re asking for but certainly in the spirit
ICO and Shadow of the Colossus don’t have a lot of dialogue, but what they have is in a fantasy language with subtitles for you to understand
Öxxö Xööx makes all of his stuff in his own language
The movie Incubus is entirely in a constructed language.
The game Chants of Senaar is built around languages you slowly translate/‘learn.’
Watched a good ten minutes of Incubus. I speak a couple Latin and Germanic languages, and it sounded like a weird mix of European languages. Could definitively understand some of it.
It’s in Esperanto!
WallE?
Not video, but many Asterix comics get released in Latin and regional dialects.
Also, I liked how in Enemy Mine they both learn each others language instead of the Alien just learning English.
