Can I learn English by playing Games?

People learn from media all the time, it's a great immersion experience. If you want the most accurate, I'd look for a game that was originally made in English. Otherwise, just a game you think would be fun.

I have a Discord specifically for playing games with natives and other learners. They can recommend games, and even play with you :D Would you like to join?

yes, but "fluent" is relative. It's a good start though.

I've been told Stardew Valley is good pretty good for learning words and such.

I learned English thanks to Team Fortress 2, trading items, and hence, communicating with people, about prices, being polite and so on. I'm also quite a heavy fan of Hermitcraft Minecraft SMP, the youtubers who simply playing Minecraft on their own server, there's communication between them, and that's how I learned decent chunk of my vocabulary aswell. Learning of anything goes more out of your attitude, if I say so myself. I was thrilled to trade and interact with TF2, and so I did. I found "Mumbo-Jumbo " fun to watch, so I stick to it, and one day, I've simply began to understand them, like I could've explain what's on screen or so, but 12-13 y.o me, suddenly began to understand words as in "whole phrases with meaning", rather dedicated pieces. I am watching Linus tech tips, and I did catch up more computer jargon off him. So I was interested personally in English media, which made me improve to the current level, but if you're not fixing your common spelling mistakes, or not "endorsing?" uncommon words to your English (as I've did just now), and simply "consuming" the text without understanding it, in my view point, you're not learning. I'm playing mist of games on English, rather Native, to hear different accents, unusual phrases and so on. The most recent ones I can name is "Yakuza Like a dragon", "Like a dragon: infinite wealth", - my most recent played games on English dub and text. Basically you can use any yakuza series game (both fun, and English is really good, though, sometimes there is wacky and unpredictable words been used). But I think you might find more appropriate something as "Webfishing" where it ts mostly chat room with fishing tied to it useful, to text with folks. Changing your OS language also helps, if you're playing Minecraft, go ahead and put it on English aswell, all that sort of stuff to get "cold shower of English". Everyone got their own ways, but gaming DID shaped me as it is. Hope that helps, if got any questions, let me know (LMK for short, also keep that in mind)

Marvel Spiderman is nice and cool to play and study expression there in the meantime. For me, games I like are better than games that others recommand. Anyway, I am laying the track as I drive the train.

Sure, I don’t know if it’s enough by itself but any exposure to a language you can get while doing stuff you enjoy is going to be helpful for learning it.

Part of it can come from playing a game you know well in a different language. There will be a lot of things that you already know what they say, so you can learn the language from that. Of course, this generally has the requirement that your native language and the language you're learning being written with the same script. Doing this could aid an English speaker learn German, for example, but would get far less benefit trying to learn Japanese or Arabic in this way.

Avowed. Massive dialogs. Every gear have description or its own story.

Is anyone willing to play "Split Fiction‌" online with me on PS5? Let's practice speaking English together.

I started my journey in English because of video games back when I was a kid, from Nintendo and sega genesis and all the way to PC games(Nintendo , Sega, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PC). I met my wife because of video games , I got my degree because of video games. To this day video games help me with my English, so yes , you absolutely can.

Based on personal experience, if you're just started learning a language and can't read most of what written in the internet yet, then it's too late, the efficiency will be incredibly low. You should have a good word-stock in the first place, at least +2000. Once you got started to understand most of English in the internet, no matter in text or video format (A2 - late B1 level), then you're ready. You'll definitely remember worls from games much easier, and in some cases you don't even need to repeat them. I just remember playing Dark Souls 3, and after death when I was retrieving my souls, there was a message "SOULS RETRIEVED", that's how I learned "Retrieve" word perfectly and easily undeastand the meaning of this word because I remember the context and where I come across this word and how it was used. This post was written by A2 level person, if you can type everything I did by yourself without translator, you're ready to go. But don't rely on games only, you should learn new words every day from your notebooks gathered from different sources and improve your vocabulary, it's paramount.

Rdd2 would help you. Try it! But keep a dictionary beside you.

Ace Attorney games are visual novels, you have to read A LOT. I'm not a native speaker and I was able to play almost all of the Ace Attorney games. Now I'm playing Pokemon LeafGreen and it also works

Have you tried hello talk, really useful in my opinion.

Which games do you usually play? I use a steam deck to play online. Monster hunter, phasmophobia, division 2... There are games where you can practice. Anyway, if you want to practice with a non-native speaker, let me know.

My cousin in Europe learned English by playing fortnite and using voice chat so he just sort of had to speak it with others

I'am not good at english at all, but the little I know was learn playing games

Yes, even if learned most of my english with movies and music, I play most games in english even if my own laguage is there

I would discourage learning English, or any language, from gamers. While you may get a better understanding of some of the basics, gamers often have specific words and phrases that only work within the gaming community, sometimes even the community of a specific game. Online gamers, due to their ability to hide their real identity, are more likely to say things that are unacceptable in the wider culture, such as slurs or insults.