Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle
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Adventure indie game built around learning Japanese hiragana through battle scenarios. Launched in 2016 by sleepy-duck and published by river-crow-studio, it has 2,083 Steam reviews at 91% positive. At $6.99, it fits budget buyers seeking a language-learning adventure.
Overview
Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Sleepy Duck and published by RIVER CROW STUDIO. On Steam it has gathered 1,736 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Sleepy Duck with publisher RIVER CROW STUDIO is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 99,000 to 231,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,736
Positive
91%
Steam appid
438270
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.099K to 231K
units (median: 165K)
≈ $395K to $922K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$7 | -5 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle at roughly 99,000 to 231,000 copies, with a median around 165,000, derived from its 1,736 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $658K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
8 observed days · window low $6.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.99 to $6.99. The tracked-window low was $6.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle sold?
- indielist estimates Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle has sold between 98,952 and 230,888 units (median 164,920), derived from its 1,736 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle?
- Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle was developed by Sleepy Duck and published by RIVER CROW STUDIO.
- Who published Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle?
- Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle was published by RIVER CROW STUDIO, developed by Sleepy Duck. See RIVER CROW STUDIO's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle released?
- Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle have on Steam?
- Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle has 1,736 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle worth playing?
- Steam players rate Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle 91% positive across 1,736 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sleepy Duck's other releases and RIVER CROW STUDIO's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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