Newcomer is a new game looking for funding on Kickstarter. The game is a story driven language learning RPG set in a fantasy world where you learn a second language to communicate and survive. There are no lessons, timers or ads, just you exploring the sandbox world and talking to people, forging relationships, and wielding magic in the language you are learning.
You can choose to learn English, Spanish, French, or Italian while you explore 8 unique towns and fish, craft, mine, perform alchemy, explore, and quest. There are 4 difficulty settings: absolute beginner, beginner, skilled beginner, or intermediate. There are tons of features for this game including hovering over a word for a translation, sentence building, conversation goals to build relationships, wielding language to cast magic, a dictionary that you fill, grammar guides, translatable short stories of lore, and learning stats.
While I think the graphics leave a little something to be desired, I think this game sounds amazing. I have always struggled to learn a second language using apps like Duolingo, but this looks like it would be way more fun and more motivating to play. It also looks like there are many different options and ways to immerse yourself in the language while playing. Check out the Kickstarter now.