- Noun Town Idler released! - 30 July 2026
Want a new way to recap your vocab?Try Noun Town Learn & Chill!We just launched a language learning idler on Steam! The game uses the content from our existing language learning game, Noun Town: Language Learning (Very Positive, ~700 reviews), but presents it in a new idle format for learning and reviewing foreign vocabulary. We thought an idle game was a great fit for language learning. It regularly prompts you to learn and review words using spaced repetition, helping reinforce vocabulary over time without feeling like traditional studying. FEATURES: 📚 Learn 500+ words and phrases🔈 Hear native speaker voices🏅 Lock-in learning with spaced repetition & the Rapid Learning mini-game🎵 Chill lofi beats and sounds to learn to🌍 12 languages to learn (inc. Furigana and Romaji options for Japanese)👥 16 study buddies to choose from Reminder to check out the https://noun.town/ website to ba…
- Noun Town is leaving Early Access 🎉 - 20 May 2026
Noun Town is leaving Early Access 🎉When we launched Noun Town in Early Access back in November 2023, we said we'd be in EA for three months to a year. It's been a bit longer than that - and honestly, thank you for sticking with us.We used that time well to deliver on all of our Full Release guidance. Here's what we shipped:Grew from 6 languages to 12, adding Korean, Russian, Greek, Spanish (MX), Egyptian Arabic, and the ability to learn English from your native languageBuilt out LINK (in Settings), syncing your progress across the Noun Town ecosystemAdded full Steam Deck supportKept expanding the world with new content like no-speech input, furigana for Japanese learners, achievements, added progress tracking, and hundreds of bug fixes and quality of life improvementsNone of this would have happened without the players who bought in early, left reviews, posted in the forums, and joined…
- Revise anywhere - 19 May 2026
We just dropped two free updates to the Noun Town ecosystem...Your SRS - now in your browser!You can now log in at noun.town/link and access your Spaced Repetition System from any device, phone, tablet, or PC. No need to be in-game to do it!That means the words you've been learning in-game are waiting for you on your lunch break, on the bus, or whenever you've got five minutes to spare. Your progress stays in sync, so every review session counts no matter where you do it.Free online language lessons.We've also launched a library of free language lessons at noun.town/lessons, available to everyone, right now, no purchase needed.It's our way of making language learning as accessible as possible, whether you're a Noun Town veteran or someone who's just getting started.Go check them out!noun.town/link | noun.town/lessons
- Own Noun Town? Unlock WET for -20% - 14 March 2025
As a valued member of the Noun Town community, you can grab our brand-new puzzle game, WET, for -20% with our exclusive bundle deal! Immerse yourself in a world where manipulating terrain and guiding water is the key to both relaxing challenges and tricky trials. Shape the landscape, carve paths for flowing streams, and solve beautifully designed puzzles that blend soothing gameplay with brain-teasing mechanics. Don’t miss this offer—dive into WET today! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51483/Grow_Your_Mind/
- v2.30 Progress tracker, SRS improvements + Steam achievements! - 31 October 2024
📢MAJOR UPDATE📢 NEW -> Progress page added! - You can now track your progress on a dedicated screen - Stay motivated and keep learning with this extra info - It also shows you what content you still need to discover in the game NEW -> Steam achievements added - can you unlock them all? NEW -> Settings panel added to show you what keys / buttons do what in the game IMPROVED-> Avoid revision overload with SRS reviews now limited to 30 words / phrases per review session (note: you can still do as many revision sessions as you like) IMPROVED-> In-game DICTIONARY now easier to navigate and review your learning IMPROVED-> FABRICATOR expanded so it's quicker to locate the items you want to spawn on demand Plus these bug fixes & quality of life changes... - Resolved an issue where Chinese players sometimes couldn't do speech rec if they hadn't chosen Chinese for the UI / menu language - Added…
- v2.29 Furigana added + more... - 18 September 2024
📢MAJOR UPDATE📢 NEW -> Furigana added! - You can now see Furigana throughout Noun Town when learning Japanese - This was one of our most requested features - Check it out here: > Object info (Tab button on keyboard to access) > Dictionary > Lessons > All NPC dialogues > Colour & Number mini-games Plus these bug fixes... - Greek & Ukrainian speech rec improvements - Pinyin non-speech input options now do not show when romanisation is switched off - Fixed one of the Japanese clothes store lessons which didn't run - Resolved an issue with using construction mode in the airship - Fixed non-speech rec delivery bot locking issue with the Japanese language - Prevent a hidden cursor from interfering with UI navigation Enjoy the update and join our community to stay up to date with all of our exciting future plans to improve the game: https://discord.gg/3K3jWtCy3H The Noun Town team 🎉 https://…
- v2.28 Mini-game improvements! - 3 September 2024
In this update we've made some changes to how the Directions and Numbers mini-games work following feedback from our community. Directions - Made the delivery bot waaaay easier to drive - Removed the time penalty on making a wrong choice - "Play again" button added to final screen - More tooltips to help players understand the game - Various bug fixes / UI improvements - VFX and SFX improvements Numbers - Made the haywire robots waaaay easier to hit (doubled the hit radius) - You can now walk up to a completed bot to hear its number - UI on workshop easier to understand what numbers you've completed / still need to find - More tooltips to help players understand the game - Various bug fixes / UI improvements - VFX and SFX improvements More updates on the way! Thank you
- v2.24 No-speech input, LINK + more... - 5 August 2024
📢MAJOR UPDATE📢 NEW -> No-speech input method added! - You can now choose to input via text or the original voice recognition method - This provides a whole new way to learn! - Pick between phonetic input units to learn words and phrases - Get hints and quickly find out where your mistakes were - No-speech is playable without an internet connection, allowing you to play on-the-go NEW -> LINK feature added - Back up your progress for added security - Synchronise your learning between versions of Noun Town (even the VR version!) Plus... - Steam Deck optimisations so it is now fully supported - Multiple other bug fixes and quality of life improvements Enjoy the update and join our community to stay up to date with all of our exciting future plans to improve the game: https://discord.gg/3K3jWtCy3H The Noun Town team 🎉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720/Noun_Town_Language_Learning/
- v2.2 Bug fixes + updated demo - 4 July 2024
14 more bug fixes as reported by our awesome community! - All voice files for Arabic items replaced - Arabic NPC Question dialog lines now correctly read right to left - Updated demo released - Ordering of Greek school lessons corrected - UI for lesson console test phase improved - Audio menu music setting level adjusted - Fixed a bug with NPC questions when switching language - Fixed a bug where clicking the lessons console in constructor mode locks the game - When talking to an NPC, show three already-asked questions when all unasked questions have been cleared - Japanese bundle renaming fix - Various fixes to language content across multiple languages - Fixed a bug where players can get stuck in the beach area - Fixed a bug where lessons with three or five lines of dialog don't run correctly - Fixed a bug where all sports hall lessons didn't run correctly Thank you!
- v2.19.3 Save backup + minor fixes - 13 May 2024
Introduction of a save backup system to prevent issues if a player's system crashes whilst the game is saving. Also some bug fixes reported by our community: - Enabled directions game words to be reviewable in the spaced repetition system (SRS). - Resolved issue where NPCs didn't spawn in the school learning environment. - Fixed the pear item so that the button can be pressed during Learning Rush on Steam Deck. Thank you!
- v2.17 Fixes + speech recognition changes! - 22 April 2024
Welcome to our latest update! In this update we've fixed lots of bugs, and made some major enhancements to the speech recognition! HUGE THANKS to our community for suggesting improvements and reporting bugs! You can join us on Discord here. If you're enjoying Noun Town, a rating and a review are always incredibly appreciated! Speech recognition improvements: - Switched to an improved server for players in China - this also removes the need for players in China to use a VPN to access speech recognition - Resolved issues with speech recognition during longer sentences and Japanese lessons - Resolved other issues with speech recognition functionality, particularly after using kiosks improving the experience for all players Bug fixes and quality of life improvements: - Cursor Enhancement: Constructor mode cursor VFX now appears enlarged when opening Numbers workshop for better visibility an…
- v2.13 Hide romaji + fixes! - 6 March 2024
Welcome to our latest update! As ever, a HUGE THANKS to our community for suggesting improvements and reporting bugs! Join us on Discord here. ...aaaaand if you're enjoying Noun Town, a rating and a review are always incredibly appreciated! NEW FEATURES: 1) We've added a Romanisation toggle in Settings menu (can now turn off all romaji and other romanisations) 2) Added GRAPHIC SETTINGS to Settings menu so you can optimise how the game performs and looks for your setup Bug fixes and quality of life improvements: - Update LEARN MORE WORDS so it can be triggered by users whenever they want - Fixed various missing UI translations - Added NOUN TOWN: LINK beta (feature to back-up and sync your save with the VR game) - Fixed Portuguese localization showing Mexican sometimes - Fixed speech recognition bug causing animation to stay too long - Fixed mouse click movement issues for some scenes - S…
- v2.1 HUGE languages update! - 9 January 2024
📢HUGE LANGUAGES UPDATE📢 Not one, not two, not three, but SIX new learnable languages added! > American English > Egyptian Arabic > Greek > Spanish Mexican > Russian > Ukrainian As well adding new languages we've also localised the menus and user interface to the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese; Chinese (Mandarin); French; German; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Mexican Spanish; and Spain Spanish. We've also dropped a whole load of fixes based on community feedback, including: > Fixed issue with INBOX notifications not appearing > Fixed issue with Learning Rush bug in Sports Hall > Fixed issue with Sports Hall floor and items falling through > Fixed issue with not being able to put items on the counter in Bakery ...plus loads more! Enjoy the update and join our community to stay up to date with all of our exciting future plans to expand the game: https://discord.gg/3K3jWtCy3H The…
- v1.0004 Small updates + fixes! - 1 December 2023
Some small fixes in this launch (our time is mainly being spent putting in the ability to learn ENGLISH, which should come out in a week or two!) Anyway, here are the notes - as every, come join us on Discord to discuss more! KIOSK - When you 100%'ed a room, the noun kiosk would break. Now it says 100% complete! SPEECH REC: SR has been adjusted in Japanese to fix a bunch of small errors, such as 17 not working correctly LESSON - Sometimes, getting answers wrong in the test still allow you to pass it. Now you must get them all right! Hohoho. NUMBERS- Second stage of finding robot parts wouldn't take controller inputs automatically. Now does! LESSONS - Clothes store and Supermarket lessons did not appear for users. Now do! CAFE - Unable to correctly learn CD due to word being in lowercase when spoken. Fixed!
- Fixes for v1.003! - 9 November 2023
A few more fixes from bugs picked up by players this week, as well as some UX tweaks: Numbers robots: halved speed and add small explosion radius when trying to hit them Animals: too many caused framerate drop. Fixed! CAFE: Possible to get stuck behind the Learning Rush machine. Fixed! Streak calculation is incorrect: now streaks are correctly counted (no data lost) SPORTS HALL - “bat”s (animal) seem to spawn from boxes + break things. Now spawning "bat" (as in baseball) not bat (as in vampire) SPANISH DATA: cleaned up the formatting of some learning tips LEARNING KIOSK: On the "All items" page, you can now play the object's audio! JAPANESE SPEECH: "Futari desu" was returning as "ninin desu". Fixed! JAPANESE SPEECH: Swan was always returning as "White bird" (Shiratori) instead of "Swan" (Hakucho). Fixed! INBOX: Inbox alert now only shows when unread mail is in inbox JAPANESE DATA: Romaj…
- v1.0002 Update notes - 6 November 2023
Another hotfix patching bugs players have let us know about. Please keep them coming! NOUN LEARNING FOR LAST WORDS: The game would ask you to learn five learns, but sometimes there were only 4 or fewer left to do. Now it is dynamic and shows the correct number. OBJECT HIGHLIGHTING UI: This would sometimes show when you were in other screens. Now fixed SCREEN TEARING for some users: You can now set your VSYNC in SETTINGs. UI: If your mouse was hovering over a button, you couldn't used WASD to select another option. Now fixed. AUTOPASS Disable: Autopass sometimes would not turn off when the user turned it off. Now it does! SPEECH REC FEEDBACK: Sometimes we showed players "NOT HEARD", when we met to show "NOT QUITE". So, we were hearing the word, but the sound was not quite the right word, rather than the mic not working. FABRICATOR 4 TOUCHPAD: Some players couldn't open the fabricator as…
- v1.0001 Cooker item glitching Learning Rush + Constructor mode hotfix - 2 November 2023
The cooker item was causing the Constructor mode and Learning Rush game to glitch. Now resolved!
- Noun Town is out now! - 2 November 2023
NOUN TOWN IS OUT NOW! 🎉 You can check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720 And join the Discord here We hope you love it! 😁 This is just the start for Noun Town and we plan to add more and more content and languages over the coming months and years. The Noun Town team
- Watch the developer play! - 1 November 2023
Watch the developer play Noun Town! Join our Discord to be part of the community: https://discord.gg/3K3jWtCy3H
- Noun Town launch trailer reveal! - 25 October 2023
THE NOUN TOWN DESKTOP TRAILER IS HERE! Like, comment, and share to support! 🙌 See it here: Available to Wishlist here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720/Noun_Town_Language_Learning/ We hope you love it! 😁 The Noun Town team
