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Steam News20 May 20261mo ago

Version 1.00.0500

Changelog New Content Added the Road to Hokuei level, with new lessons and words to unlock Added several NPCs Added an eye skin element in character creation Quality of life improvements Added a popup to confirm exiting

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Full Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey update

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What changed

5 fixes12 additions5 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Store
  • Events
  • UI and audio
  • Fixes
addedNew ContentAdded the Road to Hokuei level, with new lessons and words to unlock
addedNew ContentAdded several NPCs
addedNew ContentAdded an eye skin element in character creation
addedQuality of life improvementsAdded a popup to confirm exiting a challenge when pressing the Escape key during a challenge
addedQuality of life improvementsAdded an option to skip proper names (towns, prefectures, names) during lessons
addedQuality of life improvementsAdded an audio feedback for the Sand Museum statue puzzle

Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey changes

addedAdded the Road to Hokuei level, with new lessons and words to unlock
addedAdded several NPCs
addedAdded an eye skin element in character creation
addedAdded a popup to confirm exiting a challenge when pressing the Escape key during a challenge
addedAdded an option to skip proper names (towns, prefectures, names) during lessons

Changelog

New Content

  • Added the Road to Hokuei level, with new lessons and words to unlock

  • Added several NPCs

  • Added an eye skin element in character creation

Quality of life improvements

  • Added a popup to confirm exiting a challenge when pressing the Escape key during a challenge

  • Added an option to skip proper names (towns, prefectures, names) during lessons

  • Added an audio feedback for the Sand Museum statue puzzle

Japanese material improvements

  • Added 描く (to draw) to the lesson あの・その・この・どの in Road to Kurashiki #2

  • Improved naturalness of several Japanese dialogues

  • Introduced 何[なん] in the lesson 階, in the Shizutani School, and removed the words 何階、何時、何時間 from their respective lessons

  • Added a note on the usage of いえいえ in the いいえ definition

  • Improved explanations of こちら、あちら、そちら

  • Improved explanations of どれ and どちら

  • Add warning for 帰る (and similar verbs) that do not follow the godan/ichidan indicators

  • Added a small explanation in 駅 clarifying that の is not required in station names

  • Reorganized the number lesson content in Road to Kibitsu

  • Other minor improvements for several word definitions and lessons

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the player could get blocked during the kana drawing tutorial

  • Fixed an issue where the player could have its game soft locked in the kinoko introduction tutorial, if the game was exiting during this introduction replayed from the lesson book

  • A lot of localization fixes

  • Other minor bug fixes

We hope you will enjoy this update!

Welcome to Mochijapa in the Wagotabi Team!

Mochijapa is now officially part of the Wagotabi development team. She is a certified native Japanese teacher and content creator and you can follow her on those platforms:

She will assist us on the Japanese content creation, as well as making sure the Japanese content introduced is as accurate and natural as possible. She will also start some voice recording for the game, starting with clearer kana audio recording for the next content update.

Source

Steam News / 20 May 2026

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