Reviews for Wagotabi: Learn Japanese

This app is incredible! If you are looking for a way to read and practice Japanese in varying contexts, you are going to want to check out this one! With 2 years spent living in Japan and feeling like I never reached fluency especially with reading due to the barrier of Kanji, this game has […]

Amazing game to learn japanese. Beforehand I started learning with Duolingo and felt like “yeah I got this!”. After switching to wagotabi I felt like “nope, I actually don’t”. I love how my understanding and ability to speak japanese has improved so much with this one. And I love how they implemented it so naturally […]

This game is really amazing and cute. The pacing is really good sometimes i feel like I am learning a lot of complicate word and kanji but since I see them so often in the dialogues and exercise it dosent feel hard at all. I surprise myself with how much content I manage to memorize […]

I don’t write reviews often, but I needed to thank the developers. As a self-taught learner I was having such a hard time with the alphabets. I felt like I was never going to be able to read or write, and I had tried several apps without success. This game is really engaging, and the […]

The ultimate tool for learning Japanese. it doesn’t get any better than this! You’re constantly engaged in its learning process while having fun gameplay, which makes learning Japanese more natural and easier. This is how you should learn languages. This game made me able to actually understand Japanese people speak while watching YouTube videos in […]

Absolutely LOVE this language game/app! A must play for anyone interested in starting their Japanese language journey. Perfect blend of learning and enough fun to keep you motivated to keep progressing. SRS system to help retain what you’ve learned and slowly weens you off english having instructions and hints in the japanese that you’ve learned […]

The game is easy to understand! They teach the basics of communication, not just vocabulary. I’ve been studying Japanese for roughly 5 months & the immersion is amazing! I definitely have a better understanding of sentence structure & truly feel more confident in learning Japanese. Anyone who learned Hiragana should play this game to study […]

Wagotabi is like nothing I’ve ever played before! Not only was I able to learn Japanese verbs that always caused me trouble, but I was able to easily level up my Japanese reading ability, something that used to cause me stress! The sheer joy of walking around a mini version of Japan and interacting with […]

I’m currently working on n3, and honestly, this is the best app I’ve found so far! This is the only game style learning app that is truly a game. You learn through quests and encounters, and there’s ample opportunities for review! Highly recommend for any rpg lovers! Currently, only n5 with n4 coming soon, but […]

First of all, CUTE AF! I’ve been trying to learn Japanese for a while and have been to Japan several times. I’m a huge fan of gamifying things and this is right up my alley. I took a 4 week online course before but this is so much better because I can take my time […]

played up to the latest update 4/2025, and this app is impressive. as a beginner, I couldn’t recommend this enough. While the development is ongoing, what it has is incredible. the mini-game for kana definitely helped hammer in those, and the vocab match game still teaches me. the grammar explanations are well done, and the […]

Can’t sing this games praises more! As someone who has used books like MNN and Genki (even taking 2 years worth of courses), having this as an immersion training companion would have been invaluable to me. Being forced to *gradually* use/read more and more Japanese as the game progresses makes learning Japanese grammar and vocab […]

This game is fun, effective, and informative This goes beyond teaching just the language, but also including the local geography and culture of the areas you visit. With a one-time purchase, no ads, and the ability to play offline, this game checks EVERY BOX. No other tool, video, or game I’ve tried (save for the […]

I have tried many different apps that try to ‘gamify’ learning Japanese, but I find this format to be really helpful. I’ve been learning Japanese vocab on and off for years, but now in just a month I feel like I’ve learned more in terms of grammar and sentence structures. It’s nice that every new […]

Seriously, if you want to learn Japanese, get Wagotabi! This game is a solid 5 stars for me. The way they’ve designed the conversations is brilliant; it’s super immersive and I love seeing how they branch out and get more complex the more you play. Learning Kanji integrated into the gameplay is fantastic too, makes […]

This is by far the best app I have used for learning Japanese! Sure, Duolingo has more vocabulary and whatnot at the moment, but Duo is awful when it comes to teaching about tense, politeness, and different verb forms. Wagotabi not only has a tool for explaining the differences, it also has you practice those […]

This app is AMAZING! これは凄い! (すごい)! yes, I learned this from the game. For someone wondering should you get this game, yes! Learn hiragana and katakana, which you can study in the game. There’s a game mode for that. Once you get that down, you will begin your journey reading words and sentences. The one […]

I love it so far, the game is very well organized and it introduces new vocabulary slowly to move the game foward. Beside from learning to recognize new words I can also learn how to write as well as listening to how it sounds. I feel like the developer of this app is an expert […]

The developers worked very hard and it shows through every interaction and click. It has clearly been inspired by other games in the past and that is wonderful. I’m a new learner and found the demo engaging so I bought the full version. This is much more go at your pace and less “hey don’t […]

Good for beginners, yet surprisingly immersive. More than rote memorization, it introduces words and then forces you to use them in dialogues. You can always step away to look up a word or review learned words with in-game drills, similar to Anki. But it’s more satisfying to lean on memory and keep the flow of […]