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PLAYNESE: Master Japanese

Wynand Smit · PlayJoke Studios · 2025-07-31

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 31, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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

93%
positive of 15 reviews
Positive
steam rating
$19.95
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 267% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 95% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultySave AnytimeSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

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