Kana Quest
Kana Quest is a puzzle game that teaches you how to read Japanese Hiragana. Each puzzle is a grid of different Hiragana that can be moved around. Adjacent Hiragana will connect to each other if the…
Kana Quest is an indie developed by Not Dead Design, released 12 March 2020 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Kana Quest is
Kana Quest is an indie game developed by Not Dead Design and released in 2020. It was published by Whitethorn Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Kana Quest is a puzzle game that teaches you how to read Japanese Hiragana. Each puzzle is a grid of different Hiragana that can be moved around. Adjacent Hiragana will connect to each other if the pronunciations share a common sound. So a Ka and a Na would connect as they both have an "a" sound. The player will rearrange the Hiragana to make one continuous connection between all the Hiragana in a level. When the player does this the puzzle will be complete. Some puzzles require figuring out the correct order of Hiragana. And others require the player to figure out the pronunciation of a Hiragana by looking at what connects with what.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Kana Quest launched on 12 March 2020, within three weeks of Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Persona 5 Royal. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Persona 5 Royal.
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