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PLAYNESE: Master Japanese

95% positive of 20 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Wynand Smit. Published by PlayJoke Studios.

About the game

🎌 Master Japanese in a massive open world. Learn through Anki flashcards, JLPT quizzes, voiced NPCs, lyrics, mnemonics, thousands of pages of religious texts, novels & classics, single and co-op mini games. Explore, craft, fish, and battle with Japanese-themed cards. Major Monthly updates. =^.^=

Tagged by players

  • Language Learning
  • JRPG
  • Card Game
  • CRPG
  • Open World
  • Online Co-Op
  • 3D Platformer
  • Anime
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Immersive Sim
  • 2.5D
  • RPG

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What players say

  • Recommended
    This game is still in development, but so far it works quite well and so far it offers many amazing tools for learning Japanese. I am excited to explore more and further immerse myself in the language.

    49 min played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    This is a rereview after 7.6 hours of play as I feel I've spent way too much time despite my initial reviewing being negative. Of which, the negitives will hit you in the face almost instantly, especially if you make the choice to play this game on Steam Deck especially in handheld mode, look below to my original review for that. In docked mode, it is a handful better, but expect it to be more on the "playable"…

    7.6 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    There is a really, really good intention buried under the piles of junky and unintuitive UI. I am really struggle to give it thumbs up or down. It almost feels, like the dev tried to do everything, at the same time, and not really giving a lot of thought to it. The game wants to be everything at the same time, but kinda fails at it's very core, at the learning experience. There is lots of text, yes, and a lot of it…

    22 min played when written. 6 found it helpful.

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