Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12h 18.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.75/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 385 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 $1.34 (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
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About the game
Learn Japanese kanji in this interactive role-playing game! No experience needed – start reading and writing in Japanese!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
43 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 80 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Doom & Destiny ($9.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).
More about Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat
1 of the 206 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This series has been a relatively relaxing introduction to the Japanese writting system. The first two games focused on the writing systems that only represent sounds and not meanings. This one focuses on Kanji, which is the writing system where each character can have multiple sounds in different contexts and different meanings when used by themselves or in a compound with other kanji. So while the first couple of...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
In comparison to Katakana Wars, I think this installment was neither creative nor useful in learning kanji. Among the three writing systems in Japanese, kanji is definitely the most difficult and grueling. One character does not simply have one reading. As such, reusing the same mechanics as Katakana Wars seem detrimental almost. You now have this whole block of text for many different words and it can easily get...
An okay learning tool, but a glaringly flawed, frustrating disappointment. Hiragana Battle and Katakana War are both miles better. My gripes don't lie in how it handles teaching, no; my gripes lie in the RPG system, believe it or not. You might think RPG systems would be irrelevant for an educational game, but they really impede the entire experience. My main complaints are thus: The enemies all scale to the level...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/759440/learn-japanese-to-survive-kanji-combatReviews 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.