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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I REALLY love this game! I do have quite a bit of feedback that could make this game pretty fun and more engaging because it really has a lot of potential and it is what you would call a ''cozy'' game. I would play this often if there were more things to do! ♥ 1. It would be fun…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“It’s a fun game, you walk around the streets taking pictures of random objects, and everything turns into vocabulary. Each word becomes a flashcard with translation, and there are also quizzes and lessons you can practice. The game is really relaxing, and it’s fun to explore the…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“This was a great learning game. I do wish the world was bigger. I hope the developer adds more to this. This would be a great game to expand and learn the language with.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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