Lingua

LINGUA is a language-learning game that thinks it's a contagion sim.

You start as a single word in one person's mouth. Every other person in the room is a node you haven't reached yet. Answer to pass yourself on — pick the meaning for the easy ones, type the whole thing for the ones that carry weight. Get enough of the room and you face the Utterance: one full sentence, in the language you're learning, no options.

But the room pushes back. The Resistance puts one of your carriers under review, and a clock starts. Defend it or lose it, and everything it was holding.

Take the room and you move outward — a bigger room, more mouths, less patience.