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You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana cover art

You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana

James Moulang · 2021-08-11

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 11, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Learn and master the japanese phonetic alphabets at your own pace with this meditative language learning tool.

2
playing now
98%
positive of 354 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

You Can Kana is a game for japanese learners of all abilities. Learn the characters in a series of quick and engaging lessons, or jump straight into Challenge Mode to train your reading comprehension.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 35% of 9,565 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.1k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 354 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2026-03-19) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.992021-08-112026-03-262021-08-11 — best price $8.992021-11-24 — best price $7.992021-12-13 — best price $7.492021-12-22 — best price $7.492022-01-27 — best price $6.992022-02-10 — best price $7.492022-03-28 — best price $7.992022-07-18 — best price $6.492022-10-24 — best price $6.492022-11-22 — best price $5.992022-12-22 — best price $5.492023-02-22 — best price $6.492023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-05-15 — best price $4.992023-06-28 — best price $4.492023-07-31 — best price $3.992023-09-11 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $3.992023-12-21 — best price $3.492024-04-23 — best price $3.492024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-11-03 — best price $3.492024-11-27 — best price $4.992024-12-20 — best price $3.992025-03-13 — best price $3.492025-06-26 — best price $2.492025-12-18 — best price $2.492026-02-05 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-03-26 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DCuteArcadePuzzleTypingSoftwareSpellingTutorialEducationWord Game

Census log

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

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