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Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography
Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography. With your trusty camera, take photographs of the fictional streets of Japan to capture new words and images as fully translated flash cards!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Before I dive deeper into things, I'd like to mention that I had the privilege of being one of the few beta testers for this highly anticipated title. After having spent countless hours exploring every corner of this virtual city and its details, playing around with the camera…”
— a player, Steam review · 296 hrs played“The game is probably one of the most enjoyable ways to learn Japanese. There’s so much to explore in the city and I like the attention to detail. I enjoy every aspect in the game and I can totally recommend it to anyone looking for a way to learn Japanese and want a beginner…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Overall, it's a nice game, and it looks very pretty. But at the time of writing, it's also quite short. + pros : • Very pretty • The Quizz mode makes it very fun to learn all the words in the game. • The Quizz mode has a timer, so you can challenge yourself by speedrunning the…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-23.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
New Influent + Shashingo Bundle!
Shashingo + Influent I've been working with the developer of Influent to bring you an incredible discounted bundle of both Shashingo and Influent \ , and now, it's finally live! If you haven't played
Languages Update + Trading Cards & More
Localisation Wonderful members of the community have helped to localise the game into several new languages! Shashingo now supports learning Japanese from: French (Français) German (Deutsch) Spanish (
Movement Speed Increase & Motion-Sickness Reduction & Bug Fixes
Changes Movement speed has been increased Running speed has been increased Gameplay options menu now includes a WIP "Motion-Sickness Reduction" setting. Motion-Sickness Reduction This setting removes
Small Hotfix
- Fixed an issue showing button prompts when the input did nothing - Fixed a lock out during the tutorials when played with controller
Flash-Card Viewer Update
New Photo Flash-Card Viewer Many of you wanted to view your photo flash-cards from your album in full-screen just like when you make new ones. So I've included a new way to view them in the photo albu
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Education · Immersive Sim · Exploration · Hidden Object · Cozy · Cute · Casual · Relaxing · 3D · Open World · Simulation · Controller (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 14 |
| Official site | https://shashingo.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 11 Processor: Intel i5-2500 3.3GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 7x series / Radeon HD 6570 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible or onboard chipset