Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War
Worth it · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 10.1h 11.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.69/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 560 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.04 (85% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Learn the basics of Japanese in this interactive role-playing game! No experience needed – start reading and writing in Japanese!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 51 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Monster Sanctuary ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).
More about Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War
This site sampled 231 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.
The drop-off
38% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 04:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Short Review I recently played the developers' hiragana learning game, and while its intentions were good, it wasn't a particularly enjoyable game or an effective learning tool. The UI felt clunky, the combat system was tedious, and much of the learning boiled down to matching Latin letters with hiragana characters. This sequel improves on almost every aspect. The UI is much clearer, displaying all available...
2 more reviews
the gameplay is fine, story is ok, but most importantly this actually helps me learn katakana faster, i can recognize almost all katakana character in just a few days, also charlotte is cute
An instant improvement over its prequel 'Hiragana Battle'. Hiragana Battle was extremely basic; it did what it needed to do, and it worked well, but its UI elements felt clumsy and its character progression was lacking. Katakana War fixes that with a clean user interface; neat and tidy answer windows; better RPG progression; and a degree of focus and polish the original sorely needed. As soon as the game starts...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/554600/learn-japanese-to-survive-katakana-warReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.