ま～する -序章- (2025)

"ま～する -序章-" is a poorly made Japanese "edutainment" mobile app with lightweight RPG elements designed for Japanese schoolkids to play on their mobile phones and learn some arithmetic at the same time. Gameplay consists of resolving lite-RPG battles by solving maths problems. The technical implementation is incredibly weak, and it's both comical and mildly insulting that the Japanese mobile developers behind this tried charging Steam gamers real money for a free mobile app. What do you do in the game? Maths problems, but in Japanese. This lack of an English translation for the game doesn't really matter. The language of shovelware games is universal. This is clearly a mobile app... it makes no difference if this hit PC before the app stores, or if it never even launched on a phone. This was made by mobile app "developers", and intended for the lowest common denominator in gaming, and it must be judged accordingly... there's no contemporary, modern PC gaming experience in mobile apps. That alone is enough to disqualify this from any recommendation. Nobody spends thousands on a high-end PC to pretend it's an iPhone and use their rig to play mobile apps and phone games. The …