Japanese School Life on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Welcomed by the fluttering of cherry blossom, the main character, Brian, starts a new high school life in Japan. Brian soon starts to get along with two girls in the same class after they start to talk to him. With their help, Brian gradually learns Japanese culture and customs.

Japanese School Life is a casual, visual novel and indie game developed by code:jp and published by Sekai Project.
Released on November 22nd 2016 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 318 reviews of which 265 were positive and 53 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.15€ on K4G.

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Windows

OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
Processor: 2.0 Ghz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x720
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X Compatible

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July 2025

Overall, I enjoyed it, 6/10. I recommend buying it if it's at least half off. I'd say about a 5-8 hour read. Great length, it didn't feel too short, or drawn out. (Non-spoiler review) There's absolutely nothing NSFW, nothing even lewd or inappropriate. The swimsuit scene is the ONLY thing you could consider an exception, however it is very polite and I would be not be willing to call it suggestive. The story is very linear, there's exactly 7 options where you chance choose. Each option only changes at most 20 of the following lines of text. (Which isn't inherently a bad thing.) I would not call it "route options" but more like "scene options", since they only effect that one moment and not the story as a whole. However, they do effect which girl your favor. The art is quite nice, and while not the best on high resolution monitors (it scales up poorly), it's still always pleasant, making this issue fairly benign. The music is also very nice; it's up beat, very fitting, and doesn't get stale/annoying after hearing it for multiple hours. The story is quite simple, since it's a sweet basic slice of life (SoL) story. All scenes are happy scenes, with no drama or problems, they go to events and hang out, they play and do school work - again, a sweet nonchalant SoL story. There is this neat feature where there's provided descriptions/definitions for a lot of Japanese words, so words you may be unfamiliar with you can quickly read the meaning by clicking on it if it's blue. The problem I have is that the story focuses A LOT on "world building", than it does the characters. What I mean by that, is this: Despite the fact that basically every single second in the entire story you're talking to at least one of the two girls, most long conversations are about Japanese culture, customs, food, holidays, etiquette, religion, etc. Japanese religion is particularly heavy - it's a very common conversation topic. So, while you do get to know and hang out with the two girls, I feel as if you learn more of the Japanese ways than you do them. If the goal is two give you insight into, or a feel for, what the life of a Japanese School student does in real life (IRL), I'd say they did fantastic. If it was supposed to be a story about growing a relationship, and slowly falling in love, through using the things an IRL Japanese Student normally would do yearly, they did iffy at best. In short: It's a very simple and sweet SoL, that has good art and music, that gives you good insights into IRL Japanese culture, by using events and scenes throughout the story as lessons, from following you and two girls who are in school. Overall, 6/10, since I'll say it's a bit better than middle-road visual novels.

March 2025

Chiyoko

Jan. 2025

A fun, cute and comedic visual novel that provides many Japanese history & etiquette lessons throughout. The voiced, well written characters and Live 2D made the game even better. The chibi art that was used for every story event was also really good. I enjoyed playing it through it! The only downside I have with it is the choices presented throughout have little to no impact, with 2 choices having a new scene appear while the others only change the dialogue for few lines. Also, despite the game saying their are 'routes' for the girls, all that changes here is the final scene, and only 2-3 lines of dialogue total change there. Otherwise, the game is great.

Sept. 2024

As someone named Brian, this is the best voiced VN I've ever played.

Frequently Asked Questions

Japanese School Life is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

Japanese School Life is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

Japanese School Life received 265 positive votes out of a total of 318 achieving a rating of 7.75.

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Japanese School Life was developed by code:jp and published by Sekai Project.

Japanese School Life is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Japanese School Life is not playable on MacOS.

Japanese School Life is not playable on Linux.

Japanese School Life is a single-player game.

Japanese School Life does not currently offer any DLC.

Japanese School Life does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Japanese School Life does not support Steam Remote Play.

Japanese School Life is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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