Influent Language Learning Game
Skip · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10 / 11 / 12 compatible GPU, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Influent is a Language Learning Game focused on rapid vocabulary acquisition in a 3D world featuring over 400 nouns, adjectives, and verbs with native pronunciations in 23 languages! Players have complete freedom to choose which words they want to learn without any need for pencils or books!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
December 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 40 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Aquarist ($15.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Isle of Jura ($4.99, scores 12).
2 of the 275 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 472 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
24% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 14:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Influent Language Learning Game scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/274980/influent-language-learning-gameReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Sep 22.
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