Japanese School Life

Japanese School Life

Skip · Short indie · 2016

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$9.99Skip

On its price record

$7.29Fair

Length
3.8h 4.6h to 100%
Value
$2.63/hr
Reviews
83% of 347 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.29 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.49 (75% 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

Holding it back
Value$2.63/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 81% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 89 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1280x720, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

66 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Little to the Left ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Crayon Physics Deluxe ($19.99, scores 43).

The drop-off

39% start to 15% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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
1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 07:59 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I haven't technically finished the game, I only spent 6 hours. Not sure how long the game is, but overall it's a decent game for someone that is completely new to Japanese culture. You may learn a few Japanese words. I don't really recommend buying this if you think it's going to teach you Japanese fluently.
finnsanRecommendedafter 6.3hApr 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Is a Moe Visual novel, that teach you about japan culture and history. the game is short but meaningful, and is really fun because you can enjoy the game and study about japan culture and history at the same time. On top of that Arisa and Chocola character is loveable. Chocola is elegant, modest, gracious, responsible and beautiful. Arisa is the energetic, sociable, a little clumsy, loveable and cute. If you want to...
Shiina Mahiru 椎名 真昼Recommendedafter 14hJun 2024Read on Steam
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メᵃʳᶜᵃᵈᵉ™ 💗Recommendedafter 2.5hMay 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Japanese School Life scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/555640/japanese-school-life
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

Developercode:jp
PublisherSekai Project
GenreShort indie
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements6