Wagotabi: Learn Japanese 4+

This is one of the first Japanese learning games that I find myself actually WANTING to stay with. The learning aspect feels very smooth, and I adore the fact that it doesn’t bring in romanji as its starting learner of the Japanese alphabet/vocab like so many other apps do, and instead balances moving in Japanese as you progress through the game and lessons the amount of English that is used in conversation. That I feel like is truly learning by immersing yourself into the language. It’s a cute game that has a feeling almost similar to Pokémon where you battle by learning more Japanese, collect Kanji in your Kanjidex, and travel all across the lands of Japan. It’s really neat that it makes itself unique by having the world exploration mimicking the actual locations of Japan through the game play and allows its players to take note of those real locations and maybe even pique further curiosity and excitement into wanting to travel to Japan to visit those exact locations. Keep going developers and all those who have brought this creation to life! Ya’ll are doing amazing!!

Thank you so much for the amazing review! You exactly understood our motivation and inspirations to create Wagotabi and seem to be enjoying the adventure!

I was going to wait longer to write this review, but I got too excited when after just playing two times this game, I was able to distinguish and read some hiragana and kanji characters in an instructional booklet that came with an item.

I need to say that what I love most about this game is the repetition of recently learned hiragana and words. A lot of japanese learning apps just present to you a new concept and rarely bring it up again. How are you even supposed to learn like that? But also, I LOOOVE the realistic scenarios in which you learn to form sentences.

Not only that, but you actually want to go back to this game, it doesn’t feel like a chore, it’s actually fun. I’m using Wagotabi, at the same time I’m using Renshu, and it’s a great way to reinforce the content, but also I’ve found both apps complement each other really well, they teach differently but also fill in the gaps for one another.

These $5 bucks were really well spent, my respects for all who worked in such an amazing game, I can’t wait to see more content being added, I’d gladly support this project!

Thank you so much! It took us years to experiment while developing Wagotabi and finding the right balance between learning, fun and immersion!

We are delighted to see that you appreciate our efforts to make Japanese language learning feel less like a chore. Our aim is that each learner can feel proud of their progress, because you all do a great job and deserve some celebrating! Each new step in the game contains some new content but also areas where you can appreciate and contemplate your progress!

We are regularly adding new towns and learning content.

Please tell people around you about Wagotabi, this helps us a lot!

I’ve tried many different resources for learning Japanese, but none of them helped me progress as well as this game. The unique way they merges language learning and immersive gameplay has greatly boosted my retention rate compared to many other methods. What I love is how you’re encouraged to immediately apply what you learn by interacting with NPCs. And as you progress through the adventure, the game gradually introduces more Japanese, replacing English to match your growing skills. For just five dollars, it’s a steal and offers much more than some paid places for learning. Don’t hold back if you’re thinking about it, go for it! Thank you, devs for an amazing learning tool and best of luck on the future updates !

Thank you so much for your kind words! It took us years to experiment while developing Wagotabi and finding the right balance between learning, fun and immersion! We are regularly adding new towns and learning content.

Since you feel that Wagotabi is much more valuable than its price tag, please tell people around you about Wagotabi, this helps us a lot! There is also a Patreon page, feel free to join it or share around too: https://www.patreon.com/wagotabi