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Let's have fun learning Japanese words with matching games!
Looking for that same competitive and relaxing spark as 語彙コイン? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Learn over 200 Japanese words by completing fun challenges. Unlock mini-games, art and music.
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
A cozy word game played in Japanese hiragana and katagana. Build real words on a Crossword board, outscore a clever bot across Classic, Card, and Special Crossword tile board and Relax, Time-Limit, and Versus Crossword puzzle, and learn JLPT vocabulary as you play.
Competitive, Relaxing, Replayable
Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography. With your trusty camera, take photographs of the fictional streets of Japan to capture new words and images as fully translated flash cards!
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
Relax and build real Japanese fluency with immersive phrase cards, idle progression, and smart XP-based unlocks. Level up phrases, unlock kanji, and expand your vocabulary in a peaceful, game-like learning system.
Relaxing
🎌 Master Japanese in a massive open world. Learn through Anki flashcards, JLPT quizzes, voiced NPCs, lyrics, mnemonics, thousands of pages of religious texts, novels & classics, single and co-op mini games. Explore, craft, fish, and battle with Japanese-themed cards. Major Monthly updates. =^.^=
Also in Co-op · Relaxing, Colorful
Explore! Interact! Play minigames! Fight SCARY MONSTERS! Well... mostly scary... All while you LEARN JAPANESE?!?! Learn alphabets, collect vocab, and use what you learned to gain advantage when battling Yokai! Keep fighting until you unravel what is causing all this chaos and never give up!
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
Can you learn Japanese by solving puzzles? So to Speak is a game about wandering in Japan, looking at signs, overhearing conversations, and using context clues in the environment to figure out what it all means. No background in Japanese is assumed.
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
A pixel-art RPG where answering Japanese questions is what makes you stronger. Work from your first kana to JLPT N1 with 8,800+ words and 690+ grammar points, then unwind at camp: run a burger shop, watch anime with companions, sing karaoke, or duel friends in quiz battles.
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
Wagotabi is an RPG that teaches Japanese from zero, one real conversation at a time. Explore Japan, talk with locals, order bento, ask for directions, and solve quests with the words you have just learned. Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji arrive step by step, so progress in the story means progress in the language.
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute
Tired of Anki or Duolingo? Always get confused by look-alike kanji or mix up on/kun readings? Kanji Cats is an edutainment game that teaches Japanese through cat-and-sushi-themed mini-games. Match, type, and sort kanji while learning in a cozy pixel-art sushi bar with cats!
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
Learn Japanese in this roguelike deckbuilder adventure brimming with Japanese flavor! Defeat yokai with your knowledge, gather omamori, and befriend the local guardian, Myōkun the Tanuki. Embark on your language-learning adventure and have fun!
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
Learn Japanese With Sushi is a edutainment game that teaches Japanese through sushi-themed mini-games. Practice katakana, hiragana, and vocabulary—including kanji—by matching, typing, and sorting sushi. Unlock new words via gachapon, customize JLPT levels (N5-N3), and enjoy a pixel-art sushi bar!
Relaxing, Colorful, Cute

Let's have fun learning Japanese words with matching games!

A roguelike card battler that teaches you Japanese. Master words to serve meals and chain huge combos. Seal yokai in a haunted izakaya.

Want to read Japanese? Let's learn katakana! Learn the whole katakana alphabet through puzzles and arcade-style challenges.

Your path to survival is written in ink! Survive the endless Yokai onslaught with the power of language.

A cozy, endless word puzzle - solo or online co-op with a friend.

100 Words is a simple puzzle game inspired by the classic hangman. Try to guess as many words in a row as possible before running out of lives!

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3 Coins at School is a turn-based game similar to soccer but played with coins on a desk.

Build words, complete sentences, and chase high scores in a deckbuilding roguelite.

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

Explore a colorful Japan, chat with locals and let every conversation carry your story and your studies forward.

Spell words from a grid of tiles, clear the round, then stack perks that twist the board in your favour, one colorful run at a time.

Learn 1,000+ words and phrases in 12 languages - including Japanese & Spanish - with no subscription and no ads.

Can you learn Japanese by solving puzzles? So to Speak is a game about wandering in Japan, looking at signs, overhearing conversations, and using…

From the creators of GoldenEye & TimeSplitters comes Beyond Words the genre-defining fusion of roguelike strategy and word-crafting.

Dialogue changes from English to Japanese as you learn and progress in this comedic RPG backed by professional Japanese voice acting.

A pixel-art RPG where answering Japanese questions is what makes you stronger.

In this installment, there is a Sugoroku themed around the old Japan, with various events triggered by the squares you land on.

Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography.

This is an online cooperative coin pusher game set in the Old japan that can be enjoyed by one or all.

A battle royale where the weapons are words. Drop into a match as a single letter, spell your way across the board, loot the fallen and connect your…

Learn Japanese kanji in this interactive role-playing game! No experience needed – start reading and writing in Japanese!

A cozy word game played in Japanese hiragana and katagana. Build real words on a Crossword board, outscore a clever bot across Classic, Card, and…

A pixel-art RPG where answering Japanese questions is what makes you stronger.

Toss quirky coins each round, tune your deck between runs, and chase the flip that sets your whole build off.

A short Japanese-learning visual novel where you play as an exchange student in Japan, learn vocabulary through everyday conversations, and check…

A vocabulary app disguised as a romance RPG: you rebuild lost English words to impress four assistants, unlock story scenes, and win fights with…

Tired of Anki or Duolingo? Always get confused by look-alike kanji or mix up on/kun readings?

Learn 1,000+ words and phrases in 12 languages - including Japanese & Spanish - with no subscription and no ads.

Your path to survival is written in ink! Survive the endless Yokai onslaught with the power of language.

A roguelike card battler that teaches you Japanese. Master words to serve meals and chain huge combos. Seal yokai in a haunted izakaya.

From the creators of GoldenEye & TimeSplitters comes Beyond Words the genre-defining fusion of roguelike strategy and word-crafting.

Play word games and get points to build a dictionary one word at a time

Collect words, find powerful combinations of boosters, and achieve the highest score!