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Lingua Franca

Lingua Franca LLC · 2025-03-28

Steam

Free To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Mar 28, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Lingua Franca is a puzzle game all about taking pictures. Help a young girl capture an alien by finding the materials she needs to make her trap, photographing the world to get others to help her, and maybe even helping them along the way.

Lingua Franca is a Free To Play game released in 2025, free-to-play, with a Mixed review sentiment (58% of 12 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

58%
positive of 12 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 167% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 94% of 9,614 Free To Play games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220252026Week of 2025-03-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-28: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

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