As a part-time English teacher, I always tell my students the best way to motivate yourself to learn another language is to engage with something you're passionate about in that language: whether that's music, books, or games. Heroes of Might and Magic III is my favourite strategy game for many reasons, but the most important one is that it helped me learn English.
Strategy games are tough, but playing a strategy game when you can't understand any of the words in the tutorial, menu, or UI? That's extremely difficult. This might seem like a relatively simple genre to understand without translation as there's rarely a story to follow, but guesswork and intuition can only get you so far. You can figure out the basics of most gameplay systems, build neat bases, and even win some battles, but it rarely prepares you for the full experience, especially if you try to go online.
I grew up in Brazil at a time when game translations took years to release - if they ever happened at all - and there were no apps or quick ways of accessing the internet if you needed help.
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