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Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle

Sleepy Duck · RIVER CROW STUDIO · 2016-02-16

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 16, 2016 (Mac), Feb 16, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The ideal introductory course to the Japanese language! Learn how to read and write Japanese characters (Hiragana) at a steady pace. A full-blown RPG specifically designed to keep you engaged. By playing along, you’re going to be introduced to the Japanese language like never before!

1
playing now
91%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$6.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 52k–125k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,089 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.48 at Fanatical (2020-04-20) · bundled 14×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 28 of 33 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
303020182026Week of 2018-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 6 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 8 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 5 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
543Feb 2016Aug 2026Feb 2016 — avg 54 · peak 166Jun 2016 — avg 51 · peak 471Oct 2016 — avg 13 · peak 58Feb 2017 — avg 22 · peak 56Jun 2017 — avg 20 · peak 78Oct 2017 — avg 9 · peak 27Feb 2018 — avg 9 · peak 25Jun 2018 — avg 10 · peak 31Oct 2018 — avg 6 · peak 21Feb 2019 — avg 12 · peak 52Jun 2019 — avg 11 · peak 31Oct 2019 — avg 7 · peak 19Feb 2020 — avg 8 · peak 18Jun 2020 — avg 12 · peak 40Oct 2020 — avg 6 · peak 17Feb 2021 — avg 10 · peak 26Jun 2021 — avg 10 · peak 63Oct 2021 — avg 5 · peak 16Feb 2022 — avg 7 · peak 19Jun 2022 — avg 7 · peak 24Oct 2022 — avg 5 · peak 13Feb 2023 — avg 9 · peak 26Jun 2023 — avg 4 · peak 11Oct 2023 — avg 4 · peak 16Feb 2024 — avg 5 · peak 15Jun 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Oct 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Feb 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Jun 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Oct 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Feb 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$6.99$1.042016-02-172026-08-242016-02-17 — best price $6.992017-01-02 — best price $6.992017-11-01 — best price $6.992018-02-20 — best price $6.992019-01-02 — best price $6.992019-05-13 — best price $6.992019-11-24 — best price $1.392020-03-06 — best price $6.992020-06-16 — best price $6.292020-07-22 — best price $1.042020-08-21 — best price $6.292020-09-21 — best price $6.992020-10-25 — best price $6.292020-12-06 — best price $6.292021-01-26 — best price $6.292021-03-24 — best price $1.042021-04-26 — best price $6.292021-06-22 — best price $6.292021-10-02 — best price $6.992021-11-22 — best price $1.042022-01-24 — best price $1.042022-04-07 — best price $5.132022-07-22 — best price $5.132022-09-27 — best price $5.132022-12-04 — best price $6.292023-02-03 — best price $5.132023-03-16 — best price $1.392023-05-26 — best price $6.292023-08-07 — best price $1.042023-11-20 — best price $1.042024-02-06 — best price $6.992024-04-10 — best price $5.132024-07-12 — best price $5.132024-11-01 — best price $1.042025-02-03 — best price $6.292025-03-27 — best price $5.132025-08-04 — best price $1.042026-01-08 — best price $1.042026-05-12 — best price $5.132026-08-24 — best price $1.04
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-07-30 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGJRPGAnimeIndieRPGMakerAdventureEducationSingleplayerVisual NovelTurn-Based Combat

Census log

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

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