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Japanese with Mayu
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Games like Japanese with Mayu

A brief visual novel that teaches Japanese vocabulary through everyday conversations as an exchange student, with a hover dictionary and replayable audio.

Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey
A well-regarded educational JRPG that teaches Japanese through interactive quests and puzzles in a pixel-art Japan, playable in about 6–10 hours.
2025-08-13
- Adventure

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Role-playing (RPG)

Educational

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Love Language Japanese

A cozy, casual visual-novel adventure combining Japanese-language lessons with school-life friendships and romance in a roughly three-hour playthrough.

2019-01-11

Adventure
Indie
Simulator

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Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

A short, relaxed edutainment game that teaches Japanese through photographing a fictional street and collecting flash cards.

2024-02-27

First person
Indie
Simulator
Educational

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So to Speak

A single-player edutainment adventure about learning Japanese by solving environmental puzzles while wandering through Japan.

2025-03-31

Puzzle
Indie
Educational

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Learn Japanese RPG: Hiragana Forbidden Speech

A comedic RPG that teaches introductory Japanese by gradually shifting dialogue from English to Japanese across an 18+ hour campaign.

2023-12-14

Adventure
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Noun Town Language Learning

A casual, cozy open-world language-learning adventure with vocab mini-games and speech-recognition NPC conversations, best for learners with some prior knowledge.

2026-05-20

Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Open world
Educational
Quiz/Trivia

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Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat

A single-player educational RPG that teaches kanji through adventure-style combat, offering a moderately paced ~15-hour campaign that reviewers found more fun than effective as a pure study tool.

2018-08-01

Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Educational
Visual Novel

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The Expression Amrilato

A short, ~6-hour yuri isekai visual novel about learning a constructed language to connect with others, featuring a sweet romance and language-learning gameplay.

2019-06-21

Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Text
Educational
Drama
Quiz/Trivia
Visual Novel

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Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~

A short, cozy visual novel about a week-long guided tour of Japan, driven by conversations and guidebook-style info.

2014-02-21

First person
Adventure
Simulator
Text
Educational
Romance
Visual Novel

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Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle

An educational indie RPG that teaches hiragana through structured battles, lasting roughly 9 hours.

2016-02-16

Adventure
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Educational

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Kanji Training Game

A casual single-player study game for memorizing Japanese Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana through progressive leveling.

2015-09-23

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Let's Learn Japanese! Hiragana

A short casual hiragana learning game that turns alphabet recognition into puzzles and arcade-style mini-games.

2019-01-03

Indie