Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is a rpg, indie and education game developed by Sleepy Duck and published by RIVER CROW STUDIO.
Released on January 30th 2017 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 530 reviews of which 485 were positive and 45 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.48€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War into these genres:

RPG Indie Education Adventure Strategy Anime RPGMaker Visual Novel JRPG Great Soundtrack Singleplayer

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (32bit/64bit)
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
DirectX: Version 9.0
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 2 GB available space

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June 2025

If you're looking as a beginner a good way to review katakana, I think this is worth the time. It's definitely not the fastest way, but if you're looking for something fun to push your katakana review, I think it's not bad. If I were to recommend order: Hiragana Forbidden => Katakana War => Kanji Combat and skip the basic hiragana game unless you're really struggling with Hiragana and need to have multiple games. But these games are much better as review/reinforcement tools, barring maybe Kanji Combat. The Good: 1. This is a pretty good way to review katakana. I'm not sure I'd completely learn from this game, but if you're looking as a beginner to just reinforce katakana this is a great tool 2. Some of the music is kinda a banger? There's a couple things that kinda get annoying after a while, but the weapon shop theme and the Obake world theme? Pretty dope 3. To be honest it's actually got a better JRPG system than I thought it would have. Is it amazing? No, but it did get me building a speed setup to go buffer => AoE mage => physical answers to finish off, which is cool that there's some level of optimization. That being said you can kinda just brute force if you want, there's not really a lot of stat or DPS checks The Neutral: 1. This is about the most standard JRPG story. Don't expect to be wow'd 2. The way music loops is kinda weird The Bad: 1. Some character side stories are just not very exciting 2. Weird bugs randomly, nothing soft locking but some animation slow down 3. Doesn't work on steam deck very well

May 2025

Very good, educational game. I did find a glitch in the underground mission called something like "take back osaka". During this mission, if after you find Kyoko you decide to cross the same bridge you already crossed, you can do the same encounter infinitely, but the cutscene is broken.

May 2025

Very helpful game for learning Katakana. As someone who struggles remembering the characters this has helped me learn a lot faster than other language methods. I have had no issues with the game itself. I would recommend it.

Feb. 2025

I'm moving to Japan soon and I've been struggling a lot to learn Katakana. I'm not very good at straight memorization, and it's not used quite as much as Hiragana, so it's been harder to get continuous exposure. This game helped me out so much. The game is paced very well, with it giving you a set of characters, then a full dungeon of about 30min or more to practice what you've learned. Then it gives you the next set. I can't say I can fluently read Katakana now that I've beaten the game, but I can recognize most characters and slowly sound things out now. Which is a great place to be. I would definitely recommend it if you're having some trouble memorizing and want to be able to play a fun game while you learn and practice. It's also a solid RPG.

Sept. 2024

I used to know the japanese alphabets but mostly forgot them. Probably makes the game much easier for me. I don't think it's for anyone other than complete noobs though, it won't do you any good unless you don't know any japanese whatsoever. An English version would be like this: Monsters in the shapes of English letters that you attacked by recognizing what those letters are. They'll also teach a random word or phrase here or there, such as "good morning." I have doubts about a significant improvement in speaking Japanese after finishing this game. That said, I still like it. Good way to learn the Japanese alphabet.

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Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 5.99€ on Steam.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War received 485 positive votes out of a total of 530 achieving a rating of 8.52.

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Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War was developed by Sleepy Duck and published by RIVER CROW STUDIO.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is not playable on MacOS.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is not playable on Linux.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War. Explore additional content available for Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War on Steam.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War does not support Steam Remote Play.

Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War 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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