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WEEK 13: Custom Anki Deck Plus | Tank Mini-Game
From the Developer This week's update focuses on giving players complete freedom over their Japanese studies by introducing fully customizable Anki flashcard deck, a new tank battle mini-game and more. The biggest addit…
Event27 changesFixGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 12: Anki App | Mini-Games | 1st Person Zoom | Card Art | Performance
From the Developer This week's update is major and packed, focuses on expanding study tools, adding new mini-games, improving performance and introducing several quality-of-life improvements across PLAYNESE. The biggest…
Event42 changesPerformanceGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 11: Kanji Tower Opens | +250 JLPT Cards | Music | Library Toggle
From the Developer This week's update introduces the first floor of the brand-new Kanji Tower, expands the Anki Idle card collection, adds new study songs, and brings additional quality-of-life improvements to the Libra…
Event22 changesFixGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 10: +840 JLPT Anki Idle Cards | Study Toggle | New Songs
From the Developer This week’s update focuses mostly on a major expansion of the Japanese Anki Idle cards, and new tracks to the Music Room. A large amount (+840) of new vocabulary has been added across multiple JLPT le…
Patch notes20 changesFixGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 9: Anki Flashcards Idle | +50 Kanji (Floor 5)
From the Developer This week’s update focuses on expanding Japanese learning content with a large new kanji floor and a brand-new idle flashcard system designed to help players study while exploring the world of PLAYNES…
Patch notes12 changesFixGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 8: Item Shop | Equipment Sets
From the Developer This week’s update focuses on equipment, item progression, and preparation for larger battles and future exploration systems. As enemy encounters continue to expand, including future space battles, st…
Store30 changesFixBalance - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 7: Story Library | Spider Cave
From the Developer: This week’s update is a bit smaller, mainly because I’ve been working on a large amount of new content behind the scenes that didn’t make it into this release yet. That includes more stories, JLPT qu…
Event21 changesFixGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 6: Fishing Boat | Kanji Tower | JLPT N2 Expansion
Fishing Boat Exploration Update A new fishing boat has been added near the cave area, allowing you to travel to new locations and explore beyond the main paths. This is the beginning of a larger exploration system plann…
Event27 changesGameplayMaps - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 5: Character Select | Steam Deck | BlackJack
Character System Update (New Feature) A new character selection system has been added: Choose from 5 unique characters (3 male / 2 female) More characters will be added in future updates New Feature: You can now change…
Event24 changesFixGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 4: JLPT N3 | 日本語能力試験
JLPT N3 Room Update Added 100 new JLPT N3 Questions & Answers using the latest improved format. Cleaner visual layout for easier reading Focus on example sentences to help with understanding UI & Visual Improvements Inv…
Event15 changesGameplayUI/audio - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 3: Cosmic Beginnings | 宇宙の始まり
New Space Farming Mechanic Steam post image Introduced movable asteroids (小惑星 / しょうわくせい) as a new core resource system While flying your spaceship, you can shoot asteroids using the left mouse button at the cost of 1 Ma…
Announcement7 changesFixUI/audio - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 2: SPACE 宇宙 | JLPT N4
New JLPT N4 Learning Content, Space Exploration & More! A huge update has arrived with expanded Japanese N4 learning content, new space exploration features and more! 📘 JLPT Expansion: N4 100 Q&A Added a full 100-quest…
Event28 changesGameplayUI/audio - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
Fix: Collision Improvements & Load Fix
こんにちは！A quick weekend fix as I'm not going to wait a week to include these important improvements: ・ Camera improvements: Walls now become transparent when the camera collides with them, instead of blocking the view. ・A…
Announcement4 changesFixGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
WEEK 1: JLPT N5 Q&A
Weekly Update Schedule Playnese will now receive larger weekly updates, typically released on Fridays. Each update will focus on a core feature, alongside additional improvements and smaller enhancements. The priority i…
Event20 changesFixGameplay - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
From the Dev: WEEKLY UPDATES! | 毎週アップデート！
🔥 PLAYNESE Weekly Updates Begin This Friday! おはようございます！ Starting this Friday (3rd), PLAYNESE will move to a weekly update schedule, with new updates planned every Friday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Each week will include: ・…
Announcement3 changesGameplayUI/audio - PLAYNESE: Master Japanese
Fix 12.1.2 [Kanji Room + Typing]
Bug fixes: ・Fixed an issue in the Kanji Room where kanji info couldn’t be viewed due to 3D character height changes. A rather interesting bug to have. ・Fixed a broken typing event in the Castle for 音 = おと = Oto Note: Vi…
Event1 changeFix
