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A compact single-player Japanese vocabulary and kana memory game designed for quick, casual study sessions.

You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana
A meditative, self-paced tool for learning Japanese hiragana and katakana in a compact casual format.
2021-08-11

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Nihongo Heroes
Games like Nihongo Heroes

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Games like Nihongo Heroes

A compact single-player Japanese vocabulary and kana memory game designed for quick, casual study sessions.

You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana
A meditative, self-paced tool for learning Japanese hiragana and katakana in a compact casual format.
2021-08-11

Educational

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)

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

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

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

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

Kanji Cats

A cozy pixel-art game that teaches kanji via cat-and-sushi-themed mini-games.

2026-05-26

Indie

Kanji Training Game

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

2015-09-23

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

Yomifuda: Kanji Survivors

An action rogue-lite that uses kanji recognition to fight Yokai, offering a playful, casual approach to learning Japanese.

2026-05-18

Action
Indie

JQ: Beautiful Japan

A casual single-player quiz game for learning hiragana and katakana with very short play sessions and an achievement-focused design.

2018-08-23

Indie
Text
Non-fiction
Quiz/Trivia

Hiragana Flashcards

A brief, beginner-friendly flashcard game that teaches hiragana through character-sound-example cards and progressive challenge lessons.

2026-03-11

Puzzle
Indie

You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana