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Shujinkou
A retired samurai (主) is entrusted with saving his home from intelligent, language-devouring "Akuma" alongside an eccentric fox (人) freed from a cursed abode and an astute princess (公) with her own ambitions. Shujinkou is a dungeon-crawling JRPG that offers a unique opportunity to learn Japanese as you play. It features thousands of Japanese words...
Details
- Released
- February 13, 2025
- Developer
- Rice Games
- Genres
- Puzzle · Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Adventure
- Publisher
- Rice Games
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Shujinkou Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Shujinkou is a genuinely worthwhile language tool wrapped up in a genuinely worthwhile indie Etrian Odyssey-style dungeon crawler. It’s an inspired, intelligent idea and I hope people give it a chance despite being as indie as they come. On sheer ambition and creative energy, I would be hard-pressed to point to anything I have ever played that’s more impressive than this.
Summary - Both a decent language learning tool and a good game, Shujinkou pulls off a pretty impressive feat here. Some of the controls are a little more complex than I would like, but everything else is spot-on.
War of words.Reviewer's Note: Shujinkou was reviewed on a Switch 2.For the longest time, I've wanted to learn to read [...]
You won’t become fluent in Japanese by playing Shujinkou, but it will introduce the basics of both hiragana and katakana to you in a game that features the best bits of the Etrian Odyssey series in a very clever way. The combat system is solid enough that not even the counterintuitive menus could keep me from diving back in for more.
Solo-developed RPG Shujinkou offers an enthraling adventure and a fun way to learn Japanese. Even with some flaws due to this dungeon-crawler being extremely ambitious, it is a great cover letter for Rice Games.