Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey

To celebrate Wagotabi's one-year anniversary on Steam, Wagotabi is 35% off for two weeks starting today.We also released a big content update this week (v 1.00.0500), featuring Hokuei, and also new native Japanese audio recordings for the words and example sentences in the first two prefectures (300+ words and 420+ sentences). This past year has been extremely busy for the project. Here are some of the highlights:More than 50 updates, including 6 major content updates related to Tottori PrefectureWagotabi got recognized by Okayama prefectureMochijapa ( joined our team as official native Japanese language teacher, helping us in the Japanese content creation and accuracyAdded several major features, including the Kanji Radical feature in Kanjidex, new puzzle mechanics, listening-focused quizzes, and several Focus Tests (Vocabulary, Grammar, Kanji, and Conjugation)Added Italian and Polish localizationSignificant balancing changes and improvements to make the learning experience much smootherPlenty of fixes and improvements on localization, Japanese content, lessons.Roadmap 2026/2027Thanks to the success of our Steam release we will be able to port the game on several consoles. As

Sound post process work on the native japanese voice audioFixed an issue with the Furigana Option when selecting "non-mastered words"Fixed audio of 出口Fixed an issue where N/A tags could appear in translation of several exemple sentences for some languagesFixed missing translation of the Japanese counter related tipRemoved volitional form of 違うSimplified the な-adjective negation lessonSimplified exemple sentences in the noun modification lessonSimplified some exemple sentencesFixed several localization issues

Fixed wrong audio for one exemple sentenceFixed missing audio for だいせん町 direction in HokueiFixed one NPC dialogue and appearance in Road to HokueiSlightly increased steps sound effect

Japanese language related fixes / improvements:Fixed missing long vowel audio in the long vowel lessonAdded a note in the numbers lesson that numbers need to be used with counters to count thingsReworked several example sentencesAdded a には pattern explanation to the は word pageFixed several ambiguous sentence blocks during testsBug Fixes / Optimization:Fixed an issue where the first character typed with a physical keyboard in the answer input field could not be converted correctly into kanaFixed an issue where the Escape key didn't always allow the quit game popup to be openedFixed an issue during the word tooltip tutorial that prevented completing the tutorial when the font size was set to Large on some screen resolutionsFixed missing keyboard/game controller hints on several buttonsAdded a safeguard to prevent bypassing compulsory encountersFixed an issue where sentence blocks in dialogue answers were sometimes not generatedFixed an issue in Kurashiki - Road #1 where the block after the kanji puzzle was not reset properly after a second attemptFixed a padding issue in the word meaning page that could hide part of the last line of charactersFixed an issue where the rival enco