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View through a round arch onto the gable of a brick house in Yorkshire. The attic window glows in the afternoon sun, beside it stands a tree in autumn colours.

Out in2027

Your virtual language trip to England

Off to Yorkshire, for six months in an unfamiliar world. You explore the north of England and solve little puzzles and intriguing cases. Your English comes along for the ride.

Playable demo coming soon

For iPhone, in the browser and on Steam.

The story

Six months in another world

Moorland and dry-stone walls drift past the train window. You are in Yorkshire, in the north of England. Your mountain village in the Alps lies far behind you. Ahead of you lie six months of unfamiliar voices, new paths and people you have yet to meet.

You play Lena or Noah, and you choose at the very start. In Leeds you attend the university's English course and lodge with Evelyn in the university quarter. She calls you «love», and at six o'clock sharp there is tea on her table.

From here you set out to discover Yorkshire: the narrow lanes of York, the coast at Scarborough and Whitby, the hills of the Dales. Along the way, little puzzles and intriguing cases are waiting for you. You look more closely, you listen, and you try to make sense of it all in English.

In your rucksack is a red phrasebook from 1953, a parting gift from your mother. No sooner have you arrived than it starts to talk. Mr Darlington has a few words to say: stiff, polite, and with ideas about England that have been in the book for rather a long time.

Back home is Sophie, your best friend. The two of you have a deal: no mobile phones, but one letter a month instead, written in English. Whatever happens on your travels makes its way back to her on paper.

View from the window of an old railway carriage across the Yorkshire moors: heather, bracken and dry-stone walls, a stone barn and sheep, and in the valley a small town of pale stone with a church tower, a mill chimney and a viaduct in the morning mist. On the window ledge lie a red book and a train ticket, next to a steaming mug of tea.
Through the train window: your first glimpse of Yorkshire

What awaits you

  • Researched on location. The real places of northern England, with all their quirks. You get to know the area as if you had been there yourself.
  • Made with local knowledge. Our lead game designer knows the area very well and brings that familiarity into the game.
  • In the middle of everyday life. You gain a real insight into life in England and see how the United Kingdom ticks day to day.
  • English on the go. You learn the language as you explore and in conversation with the people you meet.
  • A story that holds together. Encounters, adventures and letters come together in a story you will happily spend six months in.
An open rucksack with a small red phrasebook and personal things for the journey.
Packed in the rucksack: the red phrasebook from 1953
Two worlds in one picture: below, a mountain valley with a village, a church and a garden table, and a red train setting off across a stone viaduct; above, separated by a band of mist, a Victorian English railway station with a tall glass roof, a bench and suitcases.

«Good afternoon. Chapter One. Arrival by Rail.»

Mr Darlington, from the 1953 phrasebook

Play and learn English

Your English travels with you

Asking the way, getting to know someone, getting to the bottom of things: in Yorkshire you need your English every single day. You listen and you give it a go. At your own pace, with no marks.

Look and click

You explore Yorkshire in a point-and-click adventure. You take a closer look at places and things, meet people and follow up little puzzles and cases.

Short answers, in English

In conversations you pick short sentences and learn how people talk round here. The world answers kindly, even when you get it a bit wrong.

«You'll be wanting your tea, love.»

Collect stamps

British words and phrases end up as stamps in your album. That way you take a bit of everyday language home from your trip.

  • liftelevator
  • tathanks
  • teaevening meal

Help when you want it

Switch on subtitles whenever you need them. Ask «Pardon?» and you hear the sentence again, more slowly.

A long row of brick terraced houses with steps and front gardens. The trees show the first autumn colours, the sun is low.
A terraced street in Leeds

«The sun was out. Nobody had told me about the sun.»

Out and about in Yorkshire

From the lanes to the sea

Your base is in Leeds. Your travels take you through York, to the North Sea coast and out into the Yorkshire Dales. Among brick terraces, cliffs and dry-stone walls, little puzzles and intriguing cases are waiting. Where is it worth taking a second look?

Map of Yorkshire with Leeds, York, Scarborough and Whitby, the Yorkshire Dales in the west, the North York Moors in the north-east and the North Sea in the east.
Yorkshire: your home for six months
A street of brick houses with gables, bay windows and small front gardens in the university quarter of Leeds, in the evening light.
Leeds · University quarterYour lodgings at Evelyn's, and your starting point for little puzzles and cases.
The Shambles in York: a narrow lane of timber-framed houses whose upper storeys lean far out over the cobbles, with the towers of the Minster behind. On a stone step lie a magnifying glass and a folded note, and there is a chalk mark on a post.
YorkIn the narrow lanes of the Shambles it pays to look closely: what could be a clue here?
The bay at Scarborough: a wide sandy beach with colourful beach huts, the little harbour with its lighthouse and the castle ruins on the cliff. In the foreground a compass and a message in a bottle lie on a rock, with footprints and a cross in the sand.
ScarboroughBay, beach and a castle on the cliff: where would you look for a clue?
Whitby harbour with fishing boats, the steps up the hillside and the abbey ruins on the cliff in the evening light.
WhitbyFrom the harbour up 199 steps to the abbey ruins: there is plenty to puzzle out along the way.
A footpath through the hills of the Yorkshire Dales, past dry-stone walls and a stone barn.
Yorkshire DalesBetween dry-stone walls and stone barns, your detective instincts are needed even on a walk.

… and many more places in England.

Characters

First friends and foes

On your language stay you meet all sorts of people: your landlady Evelyn, new acquaintances at the university, a loudmouth from the neighbourhood and, later on, your flatmate in halls. And back home, Sophie is waiting for your letters.

How you play

On your phone or in the browser

On your phone you play in portrait, with the scene filling the screen. On a computer you play in the browser, in landscape. And Write Soon is coming to Steam as well.

On your phoneIn conversation: short answers to choose from
On a computerSubtitles when you want them

Draft views. They may look different in the finished game.

Platforms

Coming in 2027

  • As an appfor iPhone and iPad
  • In the browserno installation, on your phone or computer
  • On Steamfor your computer

Soon you will be able to try the beginning of your journey in the browser.

Playable demo coming soon

Write Soon is in development. Pictures and text may still change before release.