Love Language Japanese

Love Language Japanese

Papurika.moe · January 11, 2019 · Nudity, Sexual Content, Education, Visual Novel, Anime

Buy Love Language Japanese from Steam at $19.99 — the cheapest of 2 stores we compare.

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Very Positive81% · 172
Best price
$19.99
lowest tracked $7.99
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Love Language Japanese price by region

Love Language Japanese costs $10.49 in Georgia (USD), £15.49 in the United Kingdom, €16.79 in Europe (EUR), $19.99 in the United States, CA$22.79 in Canada, NZ$24.79 in New Zealand, A$28.95 in Australia, R$37.99 in Brazil and zł71.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Love Language Japanese offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $10.49 $10.49 — 2
United Kingdom £15.49 £15.49 — 2
Europe (EUR) €16.79 €16.79 — 2
United Statesyour region $19.99 $19.99 — 2
Canada CA$22.79 CA$22.79 — 2
New Zealand NZ$24.79 NZ$24.79 — 2
Australia A$28.95 A$28.95 — 2
Brazil R$37.99 R$37.99 — 2
Poland zł71.99 zł71.99 — 2

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Love Language Japanese

今日から一緒に日本語を勉強しましょう!

Disclaimer: All in game characters are 18 years old or older.

Welcome to Tokyo most prestigious school for young foreign students: Koto Gakuen.

Enter your first year at Koto Gakuen and discover Japanese language through easy to learn lessons and compelling mini games. Meet new friends and unveil their story and maybe find love through your adventures.

Love Language Japanese is the very first Visual Novel/Dating Simulator offering a learning experience to start your journey in the world of Japanese language.

Created to help you bootstrap your Japanese language learning ability, Love Language is a fun way to start your studying adventure!
Love Language Japanese is a smart blend between a Visual Novel/Dating Sim and an E-learning experience. Through 90 in-game days learn Japanese every weekday morning and use your free time to roam the map in search of new adventure, new friends and perhaps new love.

In Love Language you will go through a full trimester program at Koto Gakuen, a prestigious language school for foreign students in Tokyo. During these 90 days it will be your choices that will define where and with who you end up.
Your new life in Japan awaits you! Everything is going your way and the most prestigious Japanese school for young foreigners open its door to you...That is until they uncover your little deception. Live a full adventure of discovery, learning, love and face many challenges to become a true student of Koto Gakuen.
Meet Helen, Sarah, Miyuki, Professor Saito, Dean Oyama and many other characters. Discover their life, their goals, their passions and fears and maybe find love with one of them. Every day of your adventure chose who you will spend time with and who you will give your heart to!
Discover and learn Japanese through more than 50 lessons and tests. love Language Japanese was created to help you bootstrap your Japanese learning ability and give you a great base to go further! Read, listen, understand the meanings and test yourself all through the game with bit sized lessons.

Love Language Japanese — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise the game's charming visual novel presentation and engaging character interactions that genuinely motivate language study, with some finding it more effective than mainstream language apps. However, many criticize the Japanese learning mechanics as superficial with overly easy multiple-choice tests that rely on guessing, incomplete content since the game is abandoned in beta with unfinished storylines, and long-standing bugs never addressed, making it unreliable as an actual language-learning tool despite its appealing premise.

Not recommended Nov 9, 2025
Maybe I would give a neutral verdict if it were an option, but in it's current state I cannot give a recommendation for Love Language Japanese. There are just too many other games out there which teach Japanese better. - There is the basic test, sometimes with 5 questions and sometimes with 10. It is a multible-choice test, either for a symbol, or for a word. - Edit: There are to other tests, a simply yes/no question, and a add Hiragana to complete word test. None of them too hard to guess - Too often it super-easy to guess the correct response: It asks for a word, but 4 out of 5 possible responses are single Hiragana. Or one or two of the responses are doubled, further reducing the number of possibilities. - But to makes things harder, some of the words the tests ask for are not part of a previous lession. - Edit: Also: sometimes a word is written different in the lession vs. the test. Gives you confidence. (Examples: post office, class). There is a HUUUGE bug-thread in the forum, but noone bothered to correct anything. The VN part is better than average, not great but it serves its purpose. Graphics are cute. But the lazy way the game handles teaching japanese - the very reason …
2 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 21, 2026
This game tricked me into studying Japanese at 4 a.m. for reasons that are definitely not educational.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 30, 2025
Love Language Japanese is a distinctive blend of visual novel storytelling, life simulation, and genuine language-learning mechanics that sets it apart from most romance-focused games on Steam. Developed by Papurika.moe and published by Initiative Media, the game places you in the role of a foreign student attending a Japanese language school in Tokyo. Rather than treating education as a background theme, the game makes learning Japanese a central pillar of its design, intertwining vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension with character relationships and narrative progression. The structure of the game follows the rhythm of an academic term, spanning a fixed in-game period that mirrors a real school schedule. Each day is divided between classroom instruction and free time, creating a steady loop of learning and social interaction. In lessons, players are introduced to hiragana, katakana, basic kanji, sentence construction, and conversational grammar through interactive explanations and quizzes. These lessons are not purely cosmetic; progress in class directly affects your ability to understand dialogue, succeed in exams, and unlock certain narrative paths. This integration gives the…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
not bad.
Not recommended Jan 29, 2026
Uses the Japanese word for "fish" for poster for some reason. Bug has been known for 6 years apparently and never addressed. That being said, this just isn't going to teach you Japanese. Maybe not a bad review for people that learned very basic Japanese and for whatever reason don't want to touch kanji, which is critical. The Japanese doesn't seem to exist in the game beyond random lessons and tests. I was hoping that there would be any sort of use beyond that. As for the content you're really seeking, ignore the tags. It isn't here, and there is no patch.
Not recommended Jan 16, 2025
Overall this is a good game, it's cute and all, there are a lot of typos in this game in both English and Japanese. Now that's not my point, the thing is that this game is still on beta version and is incomplete, which explains some errors in this game, you just progress through half of the game and the game suddenly ends AND this game is discontinued, there are going to be no more updates to this game so reconsider your decision if you want to buy it, at the very least, wait for a sale

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