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Recep Cinet · Published by Utopic Games · Official site ↗
3 user reviews — 33% positive (3 reviews)
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
First we get you speaking, then we make you better. With just 1000 words, make your daily English fluent. In a story-driven RPG, your microphone is with you, and the game listens. Fully offline, no subscription.
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Adventure, Indie, Early Access, Casual · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games
About this game
TO ESCAPE THE POLAR COLD, YOU MUST SPEAK ENGLISH :)
You wake up in a frozen world. Your only heat source: language. If you don't speak, you freeze. Every correct sentence is a step, every new word a degree of warmth.
FIRST WE GET YOU SPEAKING, THEN WE IMPROVE
Learning English doesn't require memorizing hundreds of thousands of words. As Jack Ma says: just 1000 words are enough for daily life. Play and Learn: English does exactly this — gets you speaking first, the rest follows naturally.
LEARN WHILE PLAYING
Live inside a story: walk room by room, touch objects, hear their names, learn their meanings. Go to the shop, buy items, say the price. Have conversations, complete quests — all in English.
Not flashcards — a world.
YOUR MICROPHONE IS THE CONTROLLER
Not the keyboard — your voice is your gamepad. Built-in speech recognition (Vosk) listens to what you say, scores your pronunciation. Correctly spoken words turn green — over time you'll be motivated just to see the screen turn green.
JACK MA MOTIVATION ROOMS
Tired or asking "can I really do this?": come to the in-game motivation rooms. Listen to 5 Jack Ma motivational talks with subtitles — both your ears and your heart will gain English.
SMART CARD SYSTEM
When you approach any object: the word, its icon, and its pronunciation appear. Say "I got it" — it's added to your notebook. In future sentences you'll see that word in green. Progress is visible and tangible.
ROOM TESTER QUIZ SYSTEM
How many words do you know in a room? Compete with a teacher in a quiz battle: correct answer +2 gold, wrong answer -10 HP. With a joker (MP) you can reveal the English word and guess from translations.
RANDOM TEACHER ENCOUNTERS
Walking down the road, surprise! Random teachers appear for a quick quiz — testing the retention of words you know. Even when caught unprepared, each test reinforces a word. Right answer earns gold, wrong answer costs 2 gold — but next time you get another chance.
ROLE-PLAY QUEST ROOMS — SPEAK YOUR WAY THROUGH
Step into a real-life scene — like the café — where talking IS the gameplay. The barista hands you tasks: ask for the menu, order a coffee, pay the bill. Say each one in English and the matching quest turns green in your journal; clear them all and grab your reward at the door. New role-play rooms are added over time.
FREE TALK — JUST SPEAK
No quiz, no right answer — just talk. Say anything in English and the game writes down what it understood, line by line on your notepad. Watch your own sentences pile up — the most honest mirror of your speaking, fully offline.
GRAMMAR PATTERN ROOMS
"I want to...", "I need to...", "I am going to..." — step into a room, hear the pattern, then say your own version out loud. You build real sentences, not isolated words.
YOUR PERSONAL ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS
Everything you practice is saved in printable notebooks. Each room keeps its own — "I have to…", the Market, the Café… — plus a master Oxford A1 dictionary that tracks all your words. Sentences and words you've said correctly turn black with a ✓; the rest stay gray, so you always see what's left to learn. Open them anytime in-game, or print them to study and review offline.
FEATURES
• 500+ A1-A2 level words and sentences
• 5 Jack Ma motivational talks (2000+ sentences)
• Many themed rooms (kitchen, bedroom, tool shed, etc.)
• 30 language support
• Fully offline — no data collection, no internet needed
• One-time purchase — no subscription
• 20+ hours of gameplay
• Role-play voice quest rooms — complete real-life tasks by speaking
• Free Talk mode — open-ended speaking, your sentences on a notepad
• Grammar pattern rooms (I want to / I need to / I am going to...)
CONSTANTLY GROWING CONTENT
New additions every month, topics shaped by your requests, and much more...
WHO IT'S FOR
• For those who have never spoken English before.
• For those who have started and quit learning English for years.
• For those who say "I understand but can't speak."
• For those who want real speaking practice beyond traditional courses and apps.
• Ideal for A1-A2 beginner students.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any sound card with microphone input
- Additional Notes: A working microphone is required for speech-recognition features.
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
v0.22 — The whole course speaks your language
Your language, on every blackboard The A1 course — 21 chapters, 63 lessons, 84 boards and 8,652 exercises — is now translated into all 32 supported languages. Every word, hint and situation appears in the language you picked, next to the English you are learning. "Where are you from?" now follows you, too: a Japanese player practises "I'm from Japan. I live in Tokyo.", a Brazilian one "I'm from Brazil." A new voice cast The entire voice library — 19,019 lines — was re-recorded with new, natural American English voices. Everything is pre-rendered and offline: no delay before a line, nothing to install, no internet needed. Rooms that had gone quiet can be heard again: the practice-room greetings, the grammar rooms, the word-room quiz and the speaking checkpoints all speak. Crafting that pays Every crafted item is now priced from what it is made of, so gathering, cooking and smithing are worth the trouble. Bread used to sell for less than its own flour — that is over. Lessons on your terms "I know these topics — skip" on the blackboard: pass a lesson you already know (no gold, no grinding). The board fits the screen — no scrollbar, Back and Next where you expect them. The numbers teachers set a daily limit and send you home with "come back tomorrow". Fixes Eight doors dropped you on a tile you could never walk off — the Talk Street entrance, the inn, the shops and both houses in Village 2. Fixed. Practice rooms refused to start if your journal already held another quest. Speaking checkpoints left their finished task list on screen. The bag button label no longer clips Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Traditional Chinese now says "I'm from China", matching Simplified. Thanks for playing — tell us what you would like to learn next.Read full article on Community Announcements (UtopiaRC)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 0.21 — Microphone Setup, Speaking XP and a Character Shop
Update 0.21 is here!Thank you for your reviews and ideas. This update answers the two things you told us most: "the game does not understand me" and "what do I do now?"🎤 Microphone Setup- A new screen when you start a game: a live sound bar, a noise check, and a quick test — say "I want to learn English"- If your microphone is weak, the game tells you and listens more gently. You always know why.- Esc stops listening at any time. You are never stuck.🗣️ Speaking is your XP- Every sentence you say correctly gives XP. New sentence: 10 XP. Your level now shows how much English you speak!- Daily goal: say 20 sentences a day → +50 XP and +10 gold- Streak: play every day and watch the 🔥 grow. See it all on your report page.💬 Full sentences, not two words- 523 short answers are now real sentences. "Water, please." is now "Just a glass of water for me, please."- Bar, Pharmacy, Customs, Greetings, Accessory Shop, Restaurant and Phone rooms — all new voices.🎭 Character Shop- 99 characters! 16 are free. Special looks cost gold — the JOKER costs 5,000.- The Character Master changes your look and your name. Free for the looks you own.🔨 Crafting Masters- Two kitchens, four shamans (Koko, Lulu, Tiki, Zaza), a Blacksmith, an Archaeologist and a Supplier- 144 potion recipes are new: Sleep Potion = milk + lavender + honey. Focus Potion needs coffee!- Big potions need more ingredients, and crafted relics now sell for a good price.🗿 Idiom Caves- Finish a teacher's set: applause, gold, and the teacher says goodbye- New Idiom Book: every phrase you say turns black. Collect all 300!- Your lesson list shows on screen while you learn.💾 Your saves are safe- The game no longer asks you to delete old saves. From now on, updates keep your progress.- Shop lists are wider (3 columns), and many small fixes.Have fun and keep talking! ❤️Read full article on Community Announcements (UtopiaRC)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 0.20 — Our Biggest Update: Speak, Craft and Explore!
Update 0.20 is here! 🎉 This is our biggest update. Thank you for playing and sending ideas! ⚠️ Important: Old saves do not work with this build. The game will ask you at the start — please say YES and begin a new game. 🗣️ Speaking Every room now has 250 sentences — about 5,500 new sentences, all easy A1 English. About 16,000 voice files. A man asks, a woman answers. Longer, more natural answers in the Hotel and Job Interview. 🗿 Idiom Caves Learn 300 idioms and phrases from 26 teachers. Your lesson list shows on screen. Finish a set — the teacher claps, pays you gold and says goodbye! New Idiom Book: every phrase you say turns black. Collect them all! 🔨 Cooking and Crafting New masters: 4 Shamans for potions, a Blacksmith for gold and silver work, an Archaeologist for old treasures. Two kitchens: simple food and chef food. All 222 recipes are new. Sleep Potion = milk + lavender + honey. Coffee helps you focus! ☕ A Supplier sells flour, salt, sugar and other simple things. Crafted items now sell for a good price. Collect, craft, get rich! 🎭 Characters 99 characters! 16 are free. Special looks cost gold — the JOKER costs 5,000! The Character Master changes your look and your name. 🎲 World Loot comes back on every map. It is a loot game too now! A home timer: finish your adventure before you go home — or pay 50 gold. Phone Tower: real callers, harder questions, snakes-and-ladders jumps! Fishing: catch every fish — but the spots get empty for a while. Have fun and tell us your ideas! 💙Read full article on Community Announcements (UtopiaRC)Patch NotesOfficial
Update: Phone Tower & Restaurant Street
📞 New Adventure: Phone Call Game The phones are ringing in a 22-floor tower! Answer each one and listen carefully — the caller's words are never shown on screen. A delivery driver, a telemarketer, the bank, the dentist... What did they say? Pick the right sentence from 4 nearly identical options. Answer 3 calls correctly and hop down to the next floor! 200 real-life phone sentences — pure listening training Tricky sound-alike options: "special offer" or "special coffee"? The tower resets with fresh questions when you finish — replay it as many times as you like 🍽️ New Adventure: Restaurant Street A whole street of restaurants and cafes! Talk to 6 waiters and practice real conversations out loud: getting a table, ordering food and drinks, breakfast, desserts, allergies, the bill, tips, takeaway and reservations. 200 spoken question & answer dialogues — the waiter asks, you answer with your voice All sentences fully voiced at A1 level New Restaurant Phrasebook so you can review everything you learned 🔧 Fixes Fixed: items not showing in the inventory (thanks to everyone who reported it!) Fixed: item crafting not opening Fixed: PDF phrasebook formatting Small audio and skip improvements Both adventures are waiting at your beach camp — jump in from the new portals. Have fun and keep learning! 🏖️Read full article on Community Announcements (UtopiaRC)Patch NotesOfficial
Update: The Beach Hub & Master of Excuses
v0.16 changes how your journey starts: pick your character once, then explore every adventure from your own camp on the beach. 🏕️ What's New The Beach Hub 🏕️ Start at your beach camp - every adventure (Polar journey, Escape Room, Idiom Caves, Excuses) opens through its own portal. 📜 The main menu is clean and classic again - pick your hero and go. Home button & continue where you left off 🏠 Tap the Home icon in your bag to teleport back to camp from anywhere. ▶️ Enter an adventure again and you continue from the exact spot you left. 🏦 A bank chest in your tent stores your treasures. Hannah, Master of Excuses 🙈 50 real-life excuses for why your English is bad - "I only know computer languages!" 🎤 Say each excuse out loud for XP; finish all 50 for a big gold bonus. Polish 🎲 Teachers now shuffle their cards - a different order on every visit. 🔊 Only the sentence you must say is voiced now - cleaner listening. 🛠️ Tutorial refresh and inventory fixes. Your English journey has a home now. See you at the camp! 🏕️Read full article on Community Announcements (UtopiaRC)
