Chinese Characters

Chinese Characters

伏生游戏 · November 30, 2022 · Strategy, Casual, Singleplayer, Puzzle, 2D Platformer

Chinese Characters is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Chinese Characters is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Chinese Characters

Chinese characters have been in use for the longest time, and they are the only one of the major writing systems that have been passed down from ancient times.The "Chinese characters" will promote Chinese culture and experience the beauty of Chinese culture in a different way.

Ink and colorful painting, ancient Chinese text


The game adopts the ink and wash style, always presenting the rhythm of Chinese culture, with a few points of danqing painted, a few ink marks wandering, both in shape and color, beautiful.

The people set he people, the game to get free


Players have 7 pillars to accommodate the player's choice of squares, when there are 3 identical squares in the pillar, there will be 3 squares will be eliminated, all eliminated to pass the level, after passing the level will unlock the text of the current level, unlocked to the dictionary interface to view.

Although more dust coloring, still see the ink marks thick


The game includes 3500 commonly used characters, after unlocking can be viewed in the "dictionary", all the Chinese characters will be Steam achievement way for players to collect.

Chinese Characters — game info

Platforms
Windows
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.

Recommended Jan 26, 2025
I wish clicking the characters will have the pinyin pronunciation spoken, that would be great. The TTS at the dictionary section only have the English section working which also broke the game whenever I tried to end the session. I would definitely pay if the devs decided to improve the game. I played this game with another application open to learn the characters.
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Recommended Aug 10, 2026
Chinese Characters is a casual puzzle game that turns the enormous variety of written Chinese into the foundation of a simple but distinctive matching experience. Developed and published by 伏生游戏, the game combines traditional tile-clearing mechanics with an appreciation for Chinese writing and culture. Instead of presenting characters merely as visual decoration, it makes them the objects players constantly observe, recognize, match, collect, and eventually examine. The result is a game that feels approachable enough for casual puzzle fans while carrying an educational flavor for anyone interested in Chinese characters. The basic rules are easy to understand. A stage presents layers of tiles containing different Chinese characters, and the player selects accessible tiles to move them into a temporary holding area. This area can contain only seven pieces, creating the main source of pressure. Collecting three identical characters removes that set and frees valuable space. Clearing every tile completes the stage, while filling all seven positions without being able to form the necessary matches can bring an attempt to an unsuccessful end. It is a straightforward concept, yet the lim…
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Recommended Aug 22, 2026
I am Chinese
Recommended Jul 12, 2026
this game has simplified mandarin, no way to use traditional mandarin ? thanks
Recommended Jun 11, 2026
fun for what it is, very calming, would be more helpful for memorising characters if there was pinyin / definition in the game field, once I get past characters I know I'm just clicking shapes (which is still fun) thank you
Not recommended Oct 28, 2025
Basically a simple "remove the heap" game, with Chinese characters instead of e.g. Mah Jong bricks. UI is mostly Chinese only, there's a short tutorial how to unlock some subtitles. Most options stay without translation. Sometimes hard to spot if one brick's border clips another, blocking the second one; but there is an undo button. Wastes a huge multimedia opportunity - the game itself is view only, thus limited on pattern recognition. No option to invoke sound or meaning of the characters while playing. Dictionary's audio also seems broken, especially when using a language option. Also you need to unlock characters to access them in the dictionary. What could have been a nice way to playfully train and deepen Chinese characters is so almost useless. On the other hand is is free.

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