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JQ: Beautiful Japan cover art

JQ: Beautiful Japan

Snkl Studio · 2018-08-23

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Aug 23, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

JQ: Beautiful Japan - In this game you can test your knowledge of two Japanese alphabet: hiragana and katakana.

JQ: Beautiful Japan is a 2018 Casual and Indie game priced at $0.49, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 112 reviews).

0
playing now
73%
positive of 113 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.49
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 29,485 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.8k–6.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 113 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.41 at Steam (2022-11-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620182026Week of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 00:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.412018-08-232026-08-182018-08-23 — best price $0.692018-11-12 — best price $0.992019-01-21 — best price $0.492019-04-15 — best price $0.992019-07-18 — best price $0.492019-10-07 — best price $0.992019-12-19 — best price $0.492020-01-27 — best price $0.992020-06-25 — best price $0.492020-10-05 — best price $0.992020-12-15 — best price $0.992021-03-29 — best price $0.492021-07-08 — best price $0.992021-11-24 — best price $0.492022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-04-18 — best price $0.552022-07-07 — best price $0.992022-09-19 — best price $0.562022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-03-16 — best price $0.412023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-10-09 — best price $0.992023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-03-21 — best price $0.992024-06-27 — best price $0.492024-09-30 — best price $0.992024-12-20 — best price $0.492025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-06-27 — best price $0.492025-10-06 — best price $0.992026-01-19 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-08-18 — best price $0.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.1%
earned "KE"
59.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-08-23 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieShortCasualEducationSingleplayerFamily Friendly

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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